Friday, March 13, 2009

Frustration reigns supreme

I've gotten my website designed on paper, hopefully using good design principles, but I can't seem to translate my ideas onto the page. I've done ALOT of test pages, telling myself to just play with the editor and the pages, but everything seems awkward and looks like it was produced by a child. I've gone over and over the book and it just doesn't seem to make sense to me. I just didn't think it would be this hard. After spending hours, I feel like I'm just not making any progress and I don't know what to do. Based on experience, what I need to do is just take a break -- a long break -- and get away from it. I'm teched out.

When I'm unsuccessful, it creates this intense anxiety in me about whether I can even do this, which makes it even harder to come back with enthusiasm. But time is kind of running out. I need to get started on my Research Methods proposal, which is 40% of my grade. So I'm taking a break. Hopefully, once I've made some progress in that class, I'll be able to feel more enthusiastic about working on the website.

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