In one of my earliest posts on this blog I owned up to being my own worst obstacle. It’s the typical situation for me: I want to make progress but see no clear path, and so while I have many ideas and ambitions, I get frustrated in my inability to implement them.
Right now the biggest bugaboo is the design of this page. It’s functional, but bland. It needs to be engaging and memorable. And getting there requires… what? It’s not clear. I’ve looked at many, many available themes, and none of them seems quite right. I could pay a pro to customize one for me, but that would involve a layout of cash, and even more to the point: I’m so new to blogging that even if I did get the snazziest of pages, I might soon change my mind about what I want. Then I’d be just as frustrated with the new page as I am with this one.
So the alternative is to learn to design the page myself, or at least to know enough about the code to make adjustments to some existing theme to suit my needs. But that does not look easy. I’ll be exploring the ‘Net for better resources to help me along with this (and if you have any suggestions, please leave a comment!). So I’m at that point of intimidation right now, the point where I need to remind myself that, hey, lots of people do web design. It can’t be that hard.
A third option would be to just find a theme that I can live with, and shoehorn my imagination into that template. This is probably the route I will take in the short term. We’ll see.
The solution to all of this? Press on. As long as there is progress from month to month, I shouldn’t let myself get too frustrated about things. After all, it was just a few days ago that I set a To-Do List for myself. There’s plenty for me to spend my time on there.
