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Let It Flow
Mar 21 Sun (02 PM)
It’s sitting there, waiting for me.
I put together a test directory, where I could play with my templates and site design without completely destroying the legibility of the site on lots of browsers.
But now I’m stymied. Stumped. Blocked. Creatively, I’ve got these ideas in my head, a little JavaScript whatzit that is promising, but no over all concept of whre it’s going. Dwelling is looking good, and for that I’m thankful, (though I’m considering pulling out some of the green in the entry background), but I’d really like to bring my site design up a couple dozen notches.
The stuff that Amy’s been doing on her site is amazing. I wish she would put it up so others could see. She’s really advanced as design and concepting goes. She was looking at some of her graphics that she had been so proud of when she made them on her little 16 color Toshiba laptop with PaintShopPro. She was chuckling and horrified. 🙂
She’s come such a long way in just a couple of short years. She may deny it, but her graphic design has really matured. I wish I could say the same for mine.
Where I’m stuck at is overall layout in regards to design. This whole template this has highlighted this for me. I’m pretty good at bringing together a single item: a navigation peice, a headline, etc. But I fel like I’m just putting pieces together when it comes to overall layout, rather than approaching the design from the top, down.
I could blame this on my computer at home, which could only handle so much at one time. To design a whole page in Photoshop on this machine would be dangerous. There’s not enough memory, not enough disc space, etc.
Really, I need to get in a groove, get to that Zen point of experience and existence where it all flows. But that’s a very small stream for me. The occasional “ah-ha!” in the shower or the “whoa…” after lyinging in bed, all groggy and in and out of conciousness, are what I seem to cling to. Is it enough? Can I increase it? Do I want to increase it?
Is this a situation where I will make The Flow, or is this a time when The Flow will happen. Likely, as usual, it will be a combination of both.