This weekend, following my resolution to ‘take action often‘, I decided to help my sister with a business she is building. Earlier in the week, she posted photos of some of her products on Facebook and immediately when I saw how beautiful they were, I knew that I needed to help her create a website around the business.
So I asked her for what type of website she was looking for – and the sample she sent me was something that definitely exceeded my design skills at the moment. My old approach would have been to begin backtracking on what I could actually do. This time however, I spent several hours researching and eventually found a WordPress template that I can easily customize with the CSS I know and meet several of her needs all at once.
In addition, while at a children’s birthday party, I showed her Facebook photos to two of our friends and they are seriously interested in her products. So I can help her move her business forward too.
The confidence I have about what I can do with CSS actually comes from the tinkering I have done recently with this blog – something that happened again because I decided to get more serious about posting frequently and forced myself to start customizing the design of the blog to what I want.
Taking action is definitely giving me a satisfying momentum.
Now to apply this to my simplification project.