So this site was fun to do, the problem with it is that it took so much work to maintain. First I had to find a suitable site to review (very tricky actually, a lot of crap submissions and not many good ones) and then have to conduct an interview via email, and then when all that is done I had to think of something witty to write. This often took weeks to do and I had promised myself one post a week. That didn’t last long. The fact is I maintain about 4 or 5 other sites of my own and a few more for other people.  So the reality is that this site was far more work than it was worth.

I think I narrowed my focus too much, tried to only work with the Print on Demand community. Tried to avoid the big wigs that are we are all competing with in our basements. The reality is that this is challenging at the best of times and since the recession that has only proven more difficult. Most POD designers I know are noticing significant drops in sales and the newbies are barely able to get out of the gate. But it’s not all doom and gloom, we are surviving and still selling shirts.

So where to go with Elite Shirt Design? Well for starters I cleaned up the forum, and I think I will now just write whatever fool thing comes into my head that has anything to do with t-shirts.  I’ll still do the odd review, but I’m not gonna limit myself to that for now. So in that vein, for all you newbs looking for info on how to start your very own website and then pester me to review it,  check out this post on our forum:

For Complete Newbs to HTML

And join the forum while you’re at it.

That’s it for now!

Shawn