WebKittyn Warbles
Friday, October 08, 2004
So Very Close
I ... am .... excited. Yes, I said it. I am excited, ecstatic and euphoric. Very rare for me but I can't deny it when it's there.
The site is a mess. The blogs are amazing, we're coming up on 200 and some of them are works of art. The blogs are awesome, the site itself is a mess.
I never liked the look of the main page, an index page should be the thing that grabs the viewer and makes then want to wander the rest of the site. The BoRCom index page is choppy and it looks like it was done by someone just learning MT. Which it was. *grins*
For a year now I've been torturing my friends with talk of how the site needs finishing. Problem was I could never come up with a look that clicked for me. It has to click, it has to sing to me. And nothing did. I've started, worked on and scrapped so many ideas it's not funny. Bordering on manic (anal?), I've obsessed on the site with no results. It's very discouraging to spend hours working on a look only to gaze at it and realise it's ugly, doesn't do what I need it to and definitely does not sing to me.
Yesterday she sang to me.
Yesterday the tides were aligned and for whatever reason, the Gods of Creativity decided to cut me some slack. I sat down to putter with stuff and instead of puttering I found myself creating, tweaking, diddling and achieving.
It took me eight hours to go from nothing to a whopping two pages (out of what I expect to be about 60) which is probably a bad ratio but I'm still learning this all as I go.
But these two pages are stunning. They look amazing. Not too much content, no blaring colours or cheesy clip-art, no ads or fluff. Informative, aesthetically pleasing and they do exactly what I wanted.
When I finished with all I could handle for a day, I sat back and looked at it .............. and cried. Yah, ok, a moment of sentiment crept in there but I cried.
It was there. It was there, it was perfect and I had done it. There was a rare and intense feeling of pride and intensity.. I can finally see the end of a year of talk with no action... I see exactly what I had visioned in my head and it's out of my head and alive.
There is much left to do and I know this but for the first time ever I have a direction with it and it's about filling
in what's missing now. I have really made that step into the next level up and I can see the light at the end of the tunnel that is a completely finished community domain with no catches and good writing.
I'm not an egoist (t intentionally left out) and I don't sing my own praise often but this time I allow myself a few moments of kudos. I really hit the right note yesterday and it's given me a restored sense of pride in myself and hope for the site.
I thank the Gods of Creativity.
Blog ON!
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