Design
Yesterday on my lunch break I bought a sketchbook. I thought about how much time I have been spending trying to get the components of my website out there, and how little I was doing.
So I began to just draw what I wanted my new website to look like. I want to keep it as simple as possible, so it doesn’t get too cluttered. The theme changing for each category will have to wait. I realized that changing it too much wouldn’t give my site any consistency and it may confuse the viewer.. plus it isn’t working right now.
Today is my day off. I want to make best use of my time, so I’ll do some timeboxing [1. where you set a timer for each project. This ensures you get a lot of stuff done; it is helpful to get the ball rolling]. Big projects I need to work on are:
1) looking for a place to live (I’ll have to drive around REALLY early because last time all the roads were congested and busy.);
2) Figure out WordPress & how to have each tag get its own rss feed. I’d like to have my webpages all designed and stick in the most recent posts;
3) clean my room (like folding clothes and sorting through my papers);
4) editing my todo list (which is wildly out of control at this point)
5) creating my ideal life.. in webpages. Ideal car, house, watch, life (it should help in my visualizing of a better future for myself)
6) compiling all of my lists into a useful area (something that is easily updatable and available online?)
So that is my big plan for today. Designing my life.
I’ve seen all sorts of websites out there that I’d like to use as inspiration, so I’ll have to categorize them too. At least copy the elements I like about them.
Yay.