Designing is harder than it looks (I don't know how this should look)

As a way to grow my cloud experience, I am currently working through The Cloud Resume Challenge. One of the central tasks is to host a resume webpage on an azure storage account as a static site. Now, having had a myspace account, I didn't consider the idea of whipping up a resume to be all that hard, and even if it's a site, it can't be much different than a regular pdf or a word document, right?

Nope.

After transposing my resume to the site page, it looked uninspired, sparse and the content looked flat on the page. After agonizing and looking at other resumes online, it took me an hour or so of tinkering but I was able to find a design that I was comfortable with. But the entire time I was fascinated at how hard it was for me to come up with something so simple that I felt good about, even when borrowing elements from excellent resources online. It left me feeling a sense of appreciation for good front end design and honestly, design itself.

As someone who initially entered the technology world through Helpdesk support, thinking in terms of "break fix" and "downtime", troubleshooting error codes and reading through logs, I don't often enter the creative thinking headspace. Designing something that is pleasant to look at was a challenge for me- and I wasn't expecting it on such a simple project.