{"id":49,"date":"2026-04-02T05:27:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T05:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalbylouisse.dev\/blog\/?p=49"},"modified":"2026-04-02T05:27:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T05:27:57","slug":"unexpected-realities-and-how-i-dealt-with-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalbylouisse.dev\/blog\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/unexpected-realities-and-how-i-dealt-with-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected Realities (and How I Dealt With Them)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After building my first website, I started noticing deeper challenges that weren\u2019t obvious at the start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list has-medium-font-size\">\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-337e4c1eef025ac9ef439f96168ce659\"><strong>Understanding why things work is harder than making them work<\/strong><br>At first, I was able to follow steps and get results, but I didn\u2019t always understand what was happening behind the scenes. It felt like I was building something without fully knowing how it functioned.<br><em>How I dealt with it:<\/em> I started going back through my work, breaking it down, and trying to understand each part instead of just following instructions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Fixing problems takes longer than building things<\/strong><br>I didn\u2019t expect debugging to take up so much time. Sometimes I would spend a long time trying to fix one small issue, even if everything else was working.<br><em>How I dealt with it:<\/em> I learned to be more patient and approach problems step by step, rather than trying to fix everything at once.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>There are multiple ways to solve the same problem<\/strong><br>I thought there would always be one correct way to do something, but I quickly realised that there are many different solutions. This made things confusing at first.<br><em>How I dealt with it:<\/em> I focused on choosing solutions that I understood and improving them over time instead of trying to find the \u201cperfect\u201d way.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Details matter more than I expected<\/strong><br>Small details like spacing, layout, and structure had a big impact on how the website looked and functioned. These were easy to overlook but important to get right.<br> <em>How I dealt with it:<\/em> I started paying closer attention to small details and testing my work more carefully.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Learning doesn\u2019t feel linear<\/strong><br>Some days I felt like I was improving quickly, while other days I felt stuck or confused. Progress wasn\u2019t always consistent.<br> <em>How I dealt with it:<\/em> I accepted that learning takes time and focused on continuing even when it felt slow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After building my first website, I started noticing deeper challenges that weren\u2019t obvious at the start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalbylouisse.dev\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalbylouisse.dev\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalbylouisse.dev\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalbylouisse.dev\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalbylouisse.dev\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digitalbylouisse.dev\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/digitalbylouisse.dev\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalbylouisse.dev\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalbylouisse.dev\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalbylouisse.dev\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}