One of the most time-consuming parts of building my capstone website, is the part nobody sees. It's the absence of clutter, and the sorting of my thoughts, that is the most taxing on the mind. How do you take a year's worth of thinking and research, and fit it into a 12" x 8" screen? How do I take my spaghetti-like jumble of thoughts and grid them out, waffle-style, into a format that is easy to understand? More than font sizes, more than headings and subtitles, that has been the most consuming element of my website design.
And then I've got to sum it up in a five minute video. I've spent weeks preparing a feast, only to offer guests a morsel. So it goes.
As it stands, I've figured out enough variations on the waffle that I think my website is in good shape. A three-column chart here, a row of icons there, and my thinking seems to be coming together in a way that's approachable. But what a task! I am grateful that after such a long to-do list, the remaining items are fewer by the day.
Bon apetit, viewers!