Rodent Regatta

I’d like to be good at designing templates for Movable Type weblogs. I’m not. I’d like to take a default template and really know how to modify it to change the width of the weblog or the style or the look. I can’t.

When I look at the portfolios of the people I consider really savvy designers, I wonder what’s insulting to them. Are they insulted if someone says, ”I’m planning on using Movable Type as the CMS for a new business. Would you design the templates for me?” Is there some unwritten set of rules governing what these ”best of the best” designers charge that puts them out of reach to all but the Wireds and ESPNs of the world? How many zeroes have to be in their design proposal before it’s worthy of their time?

Have any of them stooped to developing Movable Type templates or is that beneath them?