Today I put some quality time, prime time, into making my "real" website for my bowl sculptures. The afternoon before, I'd done some experiments and had gotten discouraged. No layout template seemed to meet all my requirements.
I'd collected dozens of artist sites as examples and sources of ideas. Any time I looked at a site that had an idea I thought might be useful later, I saved it as a favorite. So today I looked through them and made organized notes in a Word document. Gradually I could see my options widening as I saw new solutions.
At the same time, I could see that some sites didn't meet some important criterion for me. I could feel my judgment improving as I looked at more and more sites. Making my notes as I went along really helped. I'd tried hand writing notes earlier, but didn't keep it up. Moving back and forth between a website and Word, copying and pasting at times, entering site links to the Word doc, was easy and fast.
Perhaps later I'll edit the Word doc a bit and post it here or on the "real" site so others can use it too.
I'm designing some more sites for other people at this time, too, so my work today will have multiple payoffs. I've learned a lot. I have confidence that I can do this. Whatever has held me back from making my site seems to have dwindled away. I'm on a roll.
11:04:06 PM 
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