Someday, This Will Be an Author Website, Too

Meghan Daum gets angsty about her official website:

I wish I'd looked at a lot of sites before I embarked on my own. Maybe I could have avoided reverting back to pre-adolescent levels of inquiry along the lines of "if I were a wallpaper pattern, what kind would I be?" Maybe I could have spared my patient and very capable designers hours of time wasted at the hands of my indecision and my habit of describing navigation bars as "those scrolly things" and links as "those things that go to other things."

But my ignorance of the Web paled in comparison to my ignorance of (cue the synthesizer) . . . myself. What was my look? My tone? My ratio of crowd-pleasing genericness to take-it-or-leave-it edginess? Was it best to stick with the tried- and-true hybrid of biography and promotion ("Meghan Daum was born in 1970 and excelled in English and now writes books, buy them now"), or did I dare attempt to be hip as well as promotional ("A little bit ribald, a little bit renegade, Meghan Daum is an acid-tongued princess of noir, buy her books now, super saver shipping!")?