Comments on: Time to stop procrastinating http://www.wyckedone.net/2008-03-27/time-to-stop-procrastinating/ si vis pacem, para bellum Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:54:41 -0400 hourly 1 By: Rollie http://www.wyckedone.net/2008-03-27/time-to-stop-procrastinating/comment-page-1/#comment-81213 Rollie Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:50:13 +0000 http://www.wyckedone.net/2008-03-27/time-to-stop-procrastinating/#comment-81213 "Web development" is a pretty broad topic, but I definitely feel your pain on the design part and never finding time. I'll be interested in knowing how it turns out for you because I'm trying to figure out if it's just me or if it really is this difficult. I have trouble with the artsy/creative part of design, but that doesn't surprise me. What does surprise me is that as simple as part of me thinks HTML/XHTML/CSS/etc. should be, it isn't. I've been doing web development and getting paid for it for a long time now--not a master by any means but decent enough to get paid for it--but I still feel like I don't know anything about these. In other words, I guess what I'm asking is why is it that people who can get a handle on at least the essentials of things like PHP or SQL without serious trauma sometimes have difficulty getting something like CSS that should be much simpler in comparison? It seems like it really should make sense, but for some reason to some of us it doesn't. Personally, I think one of these days I'd just like to get a real grasp of Flash or something like that and just start doing everything in that. Even though it would feel like cheating in many ways, struggling through translating an idea into reality for web design seems like it shouldn't be nearly so complicated. “Web development” is a pretty broad topic, but I definitely feel your pain on the design part and never finding time. I’ll be interested in knowing how it turns out for you because I’m trying to figure out if it’s just me or if it really is this difficult.

I have trouble with the artsy/creative part of design, but that doesn’t surprise me. What does surprise me is that as simple as part of me thinks HTML/XHTML/CSS/etc. should be, it isn’t. I’ve been doing web development and getting paid for it for a long time now–not a master by any means but decent enough to get paid for it–but I still feel like I don’t know anything about these.

In other words, I guess what I’m asking is why is it that people who can get a handle on at least the essentials of things like PHP or SQL without serious trauma sometimes have difficulty getting something like CSS that should be much simpler in comparison? It seems like it really should make sense, but for some reason to some of us it doesn’t.

Personally, I think one of these days I’d just like to get a real grasp of Flash or something like that and just start doing everything in that. Even though it would feel like cheating in many ways, struggling through translating an idea into reality for web design seems like it shouldn’t be nearly so complicated.

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