Happy Friday!! We are now entering the holiday season or as I better identify it: burnout season. With only a few weeks left till the semester ends, I am starting to feel my body shutting down, and the need for a break has intensified. Regardless, the only thing I can do is work to end things on a solid note.

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This week, I worked on putting my sketch plans to fruition as I enlisted the help of one of my best friends Destiny. As a graphic design student, she has agreed to help me create my logo, which I had planned to be a central part of my portfolio. Since I want it to be the standout of my website and I’m still deciding on color schemes, I decided to first wait until we can come down to a few final options for her ideas and base the rest of the website’s final look around the chosen logo. We spent time discussing a range of possible color palettes, blogs and portfolios I was personally inspired by, and looking at various logos that match the look I am going for. We ended things with me feeling very hopeful and I’m so grateful for her help. We also discussed ideas for my hero screen but we’ll see how that works out. One thing at a time.

Now that I have my logo creation in motion, I turned my focus toward creating the base layout for my website. Since I completely scraped my previous work, it was a more tedious process and I did run into a few snags but I plan to quickly rectify these issues during the weekend and upcoming week through the previously provided tutorials and other sources. I also intend to include my actual work close to the end as I want to take Thanksgiving break to clean up some past written short stories (and possibly write one or two new ones). So information will be the last step as far as my planning goes. Next week’s focus: Continue to create layouts and fix HTML issues.