Today I got a call from my nicest client whose site I have been tweaking since the spring. She wanted to tell me a few problems she was still having with the site(mostly typography issues,spacing,etc).
I felt a little guilty because I began to get these problems in line last week then dropped the ball and started working on 2 other projects. I’d also begun the migration of her site from a very simple CMS to WP. She writes a monthly column and was excited about the promise of more interaction via a blog.
The thought of absolutely iron cladding her current site’s design only to have to dive in and make her a theme for her new site kind of galled me.But she had done a recent mailing and wanted the site to look good when folks came calling… So no way to avoid the extra work. If her project was the only one on my list I think I could have done all of the improvements that same week. But I am just one little slave.
So I did the improvements and began to work on making a theme for her blog. I worked for 3 hours had dinner and worked for 3 more hours.
One tiny little thing didn’t work and I deleted the whole thing! Over 6 hours of work down the drain. I am seriously disturbed. I knew that deleting the files was rash even as I decided to do it. And I still did it. (Of course I have a similar template lying around but) I was getting close with the one I was working on, then I just wiped out.
Six hours of work.Sheesh.