Re: FLASH: OT: Breaking through blank page syndrome

[Helen Triolo]

Howdy Roger.  Your hour-to-3 breakthrough would be the exception for me.

I've designed 10 or 15 web sites that I'm pretty proud of, but have

never come up with a good design that fast.  Two or three days of making

ugly stuff and feeling like I'll never find a good design is pretty much

the norm.  Twice it's taken a week --you just can't summon up creativity

on demand.  I know that doesn't help get you out of it, but you're not

alone anyway.  What works?  I don't know -- usually I'm eventually

sparked by something I see on TV (lots of very "Flash"-looking stuff on

tv these days, especially on kids channels) or at another website (I

have a huge folder of good --imo only, of course, that's what's

relevant-- Flash sites that I cruise through regularly for ideas) or

even by looking thru mags at Barnes & Noble.  Or by making a mistake or

doing something unplanned in Photoshop and then thinking I actually like

that more than what I was trying to do.  Lots of staring out the window

and thinking.  Thorsten's idea of doing something completely different

is a good one too, but I guess you already knew that and all of the

above. ;-)  Slog on! (and show us the masterpiece you eventually come up

with)


Helen

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Roger Smith wrote:

> 

> Howdy

> 

> Ive been lurking here for yonks. I've been designing for

> about 5 years, web, print cd rom etc. But right now I have

> the biggest blank page block. I am completely uninspired.

> I've spent ages at coolhomepages.com trying to get the

> juices flowing, but when i switch back to what im doing i

> just turn out crap. This hasnt happened before. Usually i

> break through the block in an hour or 3, but its been about

> 2 working days and I have nothing i am happy with even

> remotely.

> 


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