Designing your own site is one of the hardest tasks you can be faced with. Why? Because you’re also the client. You have hundreds of ideas in your head on how you want it to look, not just one. You aren’t designing around a set product like a soda can, you’re designing around a dynamic product, yourself.
By the time you are ready to start slicing up a PSD file to set it up for CSS and HTML, you’ve thought of another direction you’d like to go with the site. What a pain. It becomes an argument in your head on which direction to go.
For instance, I have this bright, bubbly site that I’ve already started coding up, however, I want to change it. I am going to have to come up with a couple more designs to get this one out of my head.