Hi! It’s been a very long while since I’ve done anything on any of my websites. I’m extremely behind on updating my webring, my main website doesn’t have as much and I didn’t even get a Christmas theme going, in general I’ve just kind of abandoned them. I really, really, really want to get back into it, but I don’t know where to begin, and I don’t have much motivation.
If you’ve taken a long hiatus, how have you gotten back into the swing of things? Is there anyone else in the same boat? Maybe we can work together in a way?
you get back into webweaving the same way you get back into anything else - you’ve got to constrain your scope.
select one really tiny thing you want to work on - literally something as small as changing the color of a single div or adding one paragraph to a page. after that, select another slightly-less-tiny thing, then another even less tiny than that, and so on. try to do it on a regular basis - daily if you can, but weekly would work too.
eventually your atrophied web design muscles will start to re-activate, and you’ll slowly get back into the rhythm again. i’m speaking from recent experience - i had to take a pretty huge hiatus from working on my personal site because i got really busy recently, but starting small and only changing a few things at a time (like adding the status.cafe widget to the sidebar or adjusting some widths on the article pages) made it a lot less intimidating for me to jump back into things.
I stopped updating my website in 2014, I think. Then I started again late last year. So a good nine year hiatus.
What I wanted to do was write. But none of the social platforms felt like places I wanted to be. So I revived my website, and I’m glad I did. I’ve had a lot of fun working on it, and the journey has inspired me to reflect deeply on my relationship with all tech.
What was it that prompted you to write this post? I think that’s the thread you should pull on. @fLaMEd probably summed it up well. The advice from @ajazz is great, too. Just pick one thing and get going.
