I spent about three days (read many, many hours!) just playing with Arachnophilia and the template. For me I like to feel comfortable with something before I put it into practice, so it was worth spending the time (also husband and I have a couple of new sites planned, want to be able to start off with own html)
But - you
will get there. And if I'm honest I had a few stress moments
but I just stuck with it, a very intense week and a half (I have the advantage of running my own offline business, I gave myself the time off!). And it was done. I am a hundred percent happier with my site, though it is still a work in progress...
and I've just started monetising ...