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For many nights of staying awake and not doing work, I put my time into pondering. I think a lot. Why do this time of transitioning from school to the real world become one of the most challenging time in a person’s life despite the fact someone has been preparing for it since after high school (moi!). It, a lot of times, frustrates me when I know I need to work harder but cannot bring myself to do anything productive.
Worse than school...and you know how I think of school.
Finally, today when I woke up, I know I have to do something before number 22 hits my life (in less than 7 days...oh ma gad!!!). Using the wireframe I created a long time ago, I set up my future website following this criteria:
- Clean with great attention to details
- Branding myself well. It has to go as if it is from my identity package
- Server the main purpose: Showcase my work
A lot of times while putting this layout together, I wonder if it is what I really want. I was divided betweens this idea of making a fun website with a lot of interaction but might be a pain to code (without having to use flash! Sorry Flash I still hate you for crashing my computer several times) or one that is a fast turn out, easy to be updated.
Under this time pressure of dealing with my paper work and catching up with hiring season, I decide to go with the second option—a fast turn-out and easy to be updated. Unlike my old site, this new site will be using Wordpress as the back bone. This allows me to include a blog and easily update my website without going through a lot of hassles.
Now, for those of you that knows Wordpress like the palm of your hand, it might be easy. This is a learning curve to me. I know the basic of designing with Wordpress but still, the idea of actually putting it on my personal site is pretty scary. What if I mess it up? What if it’s not functional? What if I don’t know how to solve a coding problems and I don’t know the keyword to google, etc...
Anyhow, I have gone through times that the deadline is worse than this invisible one so I am sure I can figure out a way to get this site live earlier than the end of October (Am I being too generous to myself?)
Under this time pressure of dealing with my paper work and catching up with hiring season, I decide to go with the second option—a fast turn-out and easy to be updated. Unlike my old site, this new site will be using Wordpress as the back bone. This allows me to include a blog and easily update my website without going through a lot of hassles.
Now, for those of you that knows Wordpress like the palm of your hand, it might be easy. This is a learning curve to me. I know the basic of designing with Wordpress but still, the idea of actually putting it on my personal site is pretty scary. What if I mess it up? What if it’s not functional? What if I don’t know how to solve a coding problems and I don’t know the keyword to google, etc...
Anyhow, I have gone through times that the deadline is worse than this invisible one so I am sure I can figure out a way to get this site live earlier than the end of October (Am I being too generous to myself?)
2 comments:
i love the new layout a. ha! i think it serves its purpose and reaches the goals you set very well! youve inspired me to get to work!
I really enjoy this quite a bit. It's refined and feels very professional. I really like your backwards 'a'. Feels complete. The hover of the top nav seems like it could be refined a bit?
I like the main postcard feel a lot too. Remember, you can play with type in CSS3! Some nice free kits and everything out there if you wanted to play with stuff other than Georgia. :P but looks fantastic! Can't wait to see it live!
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