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Training has been going well so far. I'm almost through the second course and my site is coming along nicely. However, there has been one thing that has been holding me back, and I thought I would share in case others are experiencing/ feeling the same way.
As I've progressed through the courses I've been trying to stick to the tasks given as much as possible. I have skipped some things and gone to the next lesson, figured something out there and then come back to take care of the tasks I skipped, but there has still been one thing bothering me. I haven't been getting all the content on my site as I would like. There were a couple of lessons, where I didn't add content to a page, even though I built out a slew of pages ready to receive content and mapped out the menu and page locations, etc. but regardless of all this work, the site remains mostly empty, especially when you start clicking through all the pages.
What I found is that I started worrying about the aesthetics of the site and trying to make things look appealing, before getting the content added, and this is working things backwards!. I'm not saying I'm not happy with how the site looks, but the amount of time I've spent going over little details of a page and such has taken me away from the overall goal of building a functional site.
The plan is to build content and make the site functional, even if it's not pretty. Once that is taken care of I can go back and adjust all the little things around the content to truely make it a good site.
I hope this helps somebody here as I've already taken the time to experience this first hand. Thank you for reading.
If you have comments or insights others might find useful, or even an experience you had yourself that seemed to cause a delay, please leave them.
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This is so true and very well said! I too am a bit of a perfectionist, so have learned the hard way to now stick to a simple, non-complicated theme, get that content out and stop wasting so much time on the little pretty things ;) Cheers.
Haha, yes...perfectionism is a blessing and a curse. Once I get things rolling I will revisit and add features I want and things like that. It's just hard to not do it in the moment.
I'm glad to hear it's not just me.