sounds like fun on a bun!
Dec 9, 2016 13:25:36 GMT -5
i have so many design ideas in my head but i am burnt out by the fact i have to code everything myself tbh
coding is way more time consuming for me than any other aspect of creating a theme and i feel like my design abilities are far beyond my coding ones
it kinda sucks really, i make mock ups or think of ideas and just immediately don't want to even do anything with it at the thought it having to figure out how to do the thing i'm imagining
i'm just burnt out from being a programmer and designer all in one. i love learning to code but since i'm not going to school anymore it's difficult for me to find the time to do so, and learning off the cuff when i wanna make a theme is not really conducive to remembering anything
bleh
Dec 9, 2016 21:56:18 GMT -5
Kami, I hear you. I couldn't even be bothered to learn coding, so I have infinite designs that never made it.
I didn't even know what could/would be possible etc on PBs, but always tried it, but I think a lot would never have been.
sounds like fun on a bun!
OP
Dec 9, 2016 22:28:07 GMT -5
i have so many works in progress just sitting on my hard drive like, off the top of my head:
- three different pokemon layouts
- a generic pb layout
- a gaming themed layout
- four RP forum layouts
and probably more on my backups that i've saved but didn't want on my current hd.
i mean. in many ways pb has made it a hell of a lot easier to design because for the most part all you need is a basic knowledge of HTML and a little bit to figure out conditional statements.
but there's still so much i need javascript for, or need to know flexbox for (which isn't difficult per se, just time consuming) because i'm a dumbass who can't keep things simple lmfao
I'm around and round we go
Moderator
Dec 11, 2016 10:33:40 GMT -5
Whaaat.. See I find myself being the opposite lately. I can't find the inspiration to actually design something, I much prefer to spend my time making a concept come to life. The coding side is much more challenging for me, and I can still be creative with how I make things but there is less judgement on the outcome as long as it works. (Unless you are
γ΅γ€γ π which should totally judge and slap me for my mistakes)
My job is very art + program heavy, but I am doing very similar art things and not-so-similar coding things. I am probably burned out from the art side since I get paid to do it best at work. I need to find that inspiration to want to do good things for my personal self too.
This is why money ruins everything
We'll burn that bridge when we come to it.
Moderator
Dec 11, 2016 10:46:29 GMT -5
For me it's always been the design that saps my energies. Implementing things in code is easy-peesy. If I have a solid end goal in mind or a design doc/concept to follow I can just go at it and get it done in no time. But if it requires design work by me everything grinds to a halt.
I like to think I can make things look nice if I have too, though
sounds like fun on a bun!
OP
Dec 11, 2016 15:29:11 GMT -5
don't get me wrong i actually really like coding. i wrote my first lil exe recently and am learning js and perl and C when i have the time and inclination
i think it's just that i burn out on designing stuff because i haven't the first idea how to make my ideas come to life as it were. like for instance idk if y'all remember the pokΓ©dex layout i was.working on, but i've redesigned it like three times because i can't code it at all. i mean the ideas are there and while the design keeps changing the overall functionality is the same i just... can't get it to actually be functional.
so i just burn out. i've redesigned another RP site and i've already had to alter a half dozen things from my mockup because i couldn't figure out how to accomplish what i wanted
so designing itself just winds up being this big block of nope bc i get discouraged like, "i won't be able to code it anyway so what's the point"