Design is hard

I've been tweaking my website over the last day. It's still frustrating using the Squarespace editor to be totally honest.

I constantly get warnings in Safari saying that the site is using significant amounts of memory, and it's noticeably slow and clunky to use. Colours and fonts are easy, but I've had trouble with tweaking layouts specifically. There are some customisations for mobile in the particular template but not as many as I'd like and I can't get the header to style the same on mobile and desktop 😭.

I'm not a very good designer, as I'm sure you've picked up on by now. So I've tried to keep things simple on the site, with easy to read fonts and a one colour approach that mixes different shades.

Given the main aim of Squarespace, I can understand a few hiccups around the place. But the one huge frustration is the way images are dealt with. I really want a small circular profile picture in the footer... and I know how easy that is in CSS. But here I just can't get it to work, even by writing custom CSS in the site template itself, I think it's the strange grid layout that is causing issues.

Not knowing the underlying mechanism is what is annoying I think, especially as the one of the major reasons I love technology is finding out and exploring how things work under the hood.

Still... I will persevere. At least I'm not trying to debug why my Apache server isn't picking up the correct settings 🙄.