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Do you struggle building your own homepage despite being fine with client work?
Do you struggle building your own homepage despite being fine with client work?
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Like the title suggests I want to know if this might be a common problem, so I'll just do a little blog entry and hope it sparks a conversation.

I can knock out a client website in a reasonable amount of time and on occasion have done so in a single day to meet important deadlines.

Building my own webpage however has been a process that taken years.

I do realize the issue its a lack of pressure, guidelines and limitations every time I sit down I want to build a super creative page that shows of my skills and then without a deadline it just drags on forever.

I've now finally just through it all out and am building a boring MDL-Light based site which I will iterate and improve on, I started this week and expect to be done next week.

Settling on a simple card based concept(Using this example as a guide) really helped.
Setting a ground rule of having it be boring in the first iteration also helped.

Once I have the base version I'll add a card that lets visitors trigger all the baggy cyberpunk glitch and wind 95 things I intend to add bit by bit.

It feels good to finally make progress in way that resembles the progress I make when realizing projects for others.

Does anyone else have this issue with personal projects, how did you solve it what do you think caused it for you?


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