Just to get it Done

I've been doing background work on redesigning my website and rebranding since mid-December. Nothing has changed from the public perspective. Though I've learned so much regarding marketing and the proper way to write a homepage and sales page, etc; in the end I'm just chasing my tail, and blocked. 

That's the content writing.

The web design, OTH, has been a journey I never wanted to go on.

After using Wordpress for years, I'm sick of it. The block editor and full-site editing is awful and nothing I've tried has made it easier to bear. I've also used Divi for years and I'm thoroughly sick of it, too. I'm waiting on the release of Divi 5.0 in hopes it's the solution to making Wordpress bearable again, but I'll be waiting for an untold amount of time. 

The theme I'm using on my main site is highly proprietary and locked down, so much so that when I switch the theme to another, all my work is lost, it's baked into the theme itself (I ranted to the company the day I discovered they pulled that trick on their users). Their current offering is a $170/yr subscription to keep your theme running. No thank you. 

Everything has circled back around to static sites, only now they're complicated. Only developers can deploy a static site generator or headless CMS. I'm no developer. Maybe Wordpress made me lazy, it used to be so easy to tweak the theme. That's no longer true. It's also made me not want to handcode HTML/CSS as I once did, not to mention there's no easy way to make changes across a website of HTML pages without some sort of system in place to do so (hence, headless CMS or static site generators). 

I kept coming back to this solution: Publii. Perfect for a blog, not so perfect if you want a simple option for creating pages (i.e. not blog posts). But something needs to get out. I can't keep spinning my wheels, it's driving me nuts and it's a serious blockage in the process. 

Perfectionism is sometimes more of a hinderance than help, this is one of those times. Publii and this blog is here to stay, with many posts already outlined and written in my head. My main site? It's going to change now and then change again once I find the right solution. Right now, I just want it to be fast and simple to manage. I want it back under my control. Creating a useable site has bottlenecked my touring plans, and even debuting this blog. This wasn't the first post I'd planned, but I'm sure an explanation is going to be wanted. Months of teasing changes and then this is what happens? It's just a stopgap. An apology for the lack of perfection that I clearly see in the  end results. 

Many, many changes are on the way. None bad, just change. Eventually I'll get to the point where I'm satisfied.