Showing people the effort and time needed to go the DIY route makes it easier for me to also show the paid route, leaving it up to them to decide which will benefit them more. I hear your point, at the end of the day I found this page on the first page on Google after a search for web design blogs.

A website has to work for the business, individual one-off difficult designs are an area I want to steer away from. Look and feel and how it works is enough individuality, I reckon. The Megan Fischer article looks like it’s worth a read.

They are all symmetrical so that you can easily tile the textures meaning you don’t need large images and the size of the canvas isn’t limited.