The following is a discussion topic from July 2011!
When you decide to revamp your shrines, do you do so by revamping them one at a time, or by working on many of them at the same time?
Site overhauls
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One at a time! I've discovered that I'm not great at multi-tasking something like this. By trying to work on a bunch of sites at the same time, I won't get anything finished. I'm much better off focusing on an individual site until I finish it, even if sometimes I really want to do be working on something else. If I persevere with one I usually end up with a better site (IMO) and a better sense of accomplishment!
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I like to say I complete one site at a time, but in reality I apparently work best with many, many irons in the fire, tweaking as I get time and have mental energy. If the "iron" for a site isn't "hot," then I'm just not going to be able to do my best work on it no matter what I do--everything will be forced and crappy and I'll just have to redo it all later. So I hop back and forth from project to project, unless and until one site in particular catches my interest and I get super absorbed and suddenly produce EVERYTHING in one night, etc. xD
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I tend to work in short spurts of only one site at a time, because if I let things sit for too long I'll just forget what was my point XD I might make some mockups and write down some ideas for several things at the same time, but when it comes to getting down to producing the thing in fine detail, I focus on only one thing.
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One at a time since it's the only way I've done it XD The first time was for Sesshoumaru's Castle and I had to update all the code and information plus remove the guestbook. I just do it as I go and not plan anything lol
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I used to be into Site revamps more but now my attitude is, "YOU CAN'T MAKE ME DO IT". Hence why I have many shrines with out of date code and design. Now that my standards are so different I see revamping as a huge endeavor. ;_;
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My sites are mostly pretty old. Thankfully, I'm pretty happy with the content on my Rosa shrine and don't feel the desire to revamp. My Xenosaga shrines really need a lot of work. I wrote a lot of them with a friend who also made Xeno shrines and we joked around a lot in our content. Now some of it doesn't feel very relevant years later. I'm going back and cringing at some stuff I've written over the years. There are a lot of spelling, grammar, and markup errors everywhere.
I'm trying to focus on one site at a time, one section at a time and go from there. But I do have a tendency to skip around a lot. I might decide for one night that I'm going to work on another site rather than one that I've been devoting more attention to. I'm scattered like that.
I'm trying to focus on one site at a time, one section at a time and go from there. But I do have a tendency to skip around a lot. I might decide for one night that I'm going to work on another site rather than one that I've been devoting more attention to. I'm scattered like that.