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Old 05-18-2008, 10:53 PM
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Default I'm going CRAZY!!! Intro page why do you forksake me!!!

I've spent the past 3 days trying to hammer something out but I'm never satisfied. Even when I get a good idea I get stumped.

I'm thinking that its probably best for me to leave the intro page till the end and just work on the body of the website

Has anyone tried this method before?
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Old 05-19-2008, 02:48 AM
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Definitely!

The best thing that works for me is to leave it alone for a few hours. In the meantime, almost always, my subconscious mind is working on it... so the next time I attempt to work on it, it flows right out

Other times, I just get the concept down in writing... then I spend time to tweak it and make it more elegant, concise, etc.

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Old 05-19-2008, 06:40 AM
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Default Indeed, it is the best way.

The introduction is best written after the body of a piece. A famous professor I studied under many years ago divided our major research project into three parts and gave equal grades for each part. First was our bibliography, which for most of us was devastating because he crossed out most of our sources as unreliable and unacceptable. In our case (websites), we must have excellent content for our sites to be worthwhile. Second was our outline. In that case he again crossed out many of our points as irrelevant! Finally came the paper.

The point here is that only after working hard on the content and shaping it into a good structure (site plan) is it possible to write a good introduction anyway. If we write one earlier we will have to rewrite no doubt. And in most cases we probably will, several times, no matter what.
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Old 05-19-2008, 12:38 PM
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Definitely!

The best thing that works for me is to leave it alone for a few hours. In the meantime, almost always, my subconscious mind is working on it... so the next time I attempt to work on it, it flows right out

Other times, I just get the concept down in writing... then I spend time to tweak it and make it more elegant, concise, etc.

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The introduction is best written after the body of a piece. A famous professor I studied under many years ago divided our major research project into three parts and gave equal grades for each part. First was our bibliography, which for most of us was devastating because he crossed out most of our sources as unreliable and unacceptable. In our case (websites), we must have excellent content for our sites to be worthwhile. Second was our outline. In that case he again crossed out many of our points as irrelevant! Finally came the paper.

The point here is that only after working hard on the content and shaping it into a good structure (site plan) is it possible to write a good introduction anyway. If we write one earlier we will have to rewrite no doubt. And in most cases we probably will, several times, no matter what.

Thanks for the feedback guys... I was at my breaking point last night I'm just glad I didn't take it out on the computer
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