Disappointment

Before I start writing I’d just like to make it clear that this article is not aimed at anyone other than myself and I hope that by publishing this I won’t allow it to happen again.

A few weeks ago I agreed to start working on a project and although it wasn’t paying anything it managed to get me very, very excited. It was one of those rare occasions where before you have even sat down with a pen and paper you know exactly the route you wish to take.

Immediately I knew this project was going to be a pleasure to work on and before long I had already mocked up the page using some lovely CSS3 elements, infact I’d probably go as far to say that it was my best piece of CSS work to date. After a few hours of constructing the page I was very happy with the outcome, which was apparent due to the fact that I wasn’t spending hours tweaking parts of it.

However for a combination of different reasons I was unable to continue at the pace I had set at the start and when I entered the second week of the project, it had sadly almost ground to a hault. Thankfully, it wasn’t all doom and gloom, I had in-fact been able to incorporated a few more elements into the site and spent a little time refining some aspects that I wasn’t completely happy with.

With the end of week two approaching, I decided to show what I had created, letting them know that it still wasn’t completely finished. The feedback I received was very encouraging and the design seemed to go down well enough. However, as with many thing, especially when you think you are progressing nicely, a setback cropped up. It turned out that the highly customised pages that I was working to were to be altered and that I would have to edit my CSS to get everything to fall into place again.

I spent the the next couple of evenings, altering my CSS to fit the template but due to the amount of changes it proved to be very time consuming. However, on Monday, two weeks after starting this project, I recieved an email stating that another template would be going up for now due to time constraints as the event was edging ever closer. I was gutted, my code was nearly finished and I didn’t think I was that far away from sign-off.

On a positive note, there may be another chance for me to showcase this design, as it was still under debate whether the the design of the site would change for each event. For now though, I’ll need to keep my fingers crossed.