With this little piece, I was able to restore the tops of the Great Lakes without having to draw them all out! BIG time saver!!!
Yes, I've already put way too much time into this, but now I wanted it to be complete as planned.
I resized this piece with the water deleted so I was able to get it precisely the right size, and with layering in the paint program, I was able to manipulate things until I was able to merge everything down.
This included the extended shadowing for the Great Lakes areas and other places in the northern regions. I did have to draw in the borders to the southern Canadian providences. I added Canadian bubbles and texts to the application and brought it to completion. Here's the final outcome of all this work...
Finally, the abbreviations in place for the final time, and now a template I've used on several pages thus far.
At this point, I've installed this template into five pages. The others are not created yet. To make this interactive, all I need to do is hyperlink the abbreviations to take folks to the appropriate page they want to get to in order to find practitioners. There will be five sets of these. It's a lot of duplicating but the content in each will be different.
When I complete this, putting a little bit into it per day, I will also be working on learning how to promote this site to prospective practitioners, adding other services to the site that would be exclusively for them, and charging rent for space on this site.
Final Thoughts...
You have definitely accomplished what you set out with this motivational lesson.
Brilliant job.
I'm grateful you shared this. Obstacles will eventually cross our paths along this IM journey; your story serves as an inspiration (as you meant it) to push ahead and work our way through.
Thank you so much.
In a perfect world where we start out with a good deal of money, we can just assign the idea or task and have it done, but here we are as you said having to wear many hats until we reach a certain knowledge and experience level.
I like having to learn in the rough as you have shown in your tutorial, knowledge seems to stick better in my brain that way.
Thank you for taking the time to share your journey and the lesson that goes along with it, I appreciate you. :)