Hey readers, let us see this scenario, many of us had faced this scenario in our learning phase.
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You may heard many advice saying that you must have your portfolio website to showcase your work yourself to the world and to build a personal brand. And after hearing that advice you starts to gear up your thoughts and decided to make a cool and professional looking portfolio website.
So, after you have decided that you need a portfolio website, you starts to search YouTube for best developer portfolio website examples or something related to it and binge watching it till 2:00 am in midnight and stops when you see your data pack is over.
After it you sets on a particular design for your portfolio and as soon as you starting to code, you came across a tutorial for designing the website using Figma or Adobe XD. Now you watched that video and follow it to create a design for your website. Your design looks very cool and professional. Now you sit and started coding to make your design a reality.
After two-three hours of coding the HTML and CSS for your website you think that why i am not getting the design that i have created in Figma. You restlessly try and debug the code to make it work. After some time you say yes i have started creating my website and it sucks, now i need some rest so, i solve the bugs next day.
But that next day never comes in a while. During some random thoughts you reconcile your memory about your unfinished portfolio and you again started coding. But instead of fixing the bugs in older project, you created a new file and started coding from scratch. And again you stuck in the same cycle of trying to fix the bugs and left it unfinished and restart it again.
So, you think why am i doing all this? Was i be able to do it or not? And then you decided to do it again. But this time you are able to complete your portfolio website in just two month and host it.
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Now you readers think that why am I telling this sad story to you all but the thing is all the above mention events are happened with me. Yes, I binge watched like 10 to 12 YouTube video for find inspiration. And i found myself in so called 'tutorial hell'. In general this happens with majority of beginners. They fell in tutorial hell and think that they need to be perfect or need to know it all to make a portfolio or in general became a developer.
So if don't want to fell in tutorial hell then start your favorite code editor (mine is VS Code) and start coding your portfolio website.
In my next post I will share my journey of what i did different last time to finally complete my portfolio website and how i got myself out from tutorial hell.
So, until then keep coding....
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Top comments (2)
that's same happened to me. Once upon time i watched like 2 hrs length single videos in a day and still not opened vscode
Thank you Shrikant for sharing your experience. Sharing our stories can help us realize that we are not alone in it, so we can overcome hopelessness and imposter feeling.