If you think it’s something losing your identity to your children, career or social media; try losing it to being a webmaster and there’s no good therapy for that. When we create these sites, not only do they represent our online presence but they often mirror our soul and that’s a heck of a responsibility to live up to.

Websites require the investment of time, effort and energy to grow before they can really start working for themselves. Needless to say, being a webmaster can take a lot out of us emotionally because every thought has the potential to become a blog entry. This sometimes makes creativity feel less our own and more performance oriented.

Don’t get me wrong! We pay homage to the creative principle and to helping keep the web viable. The irony comes from being that behind the scenes force that rarely makes an appearance; you just know that I’m here behind the computer; not because you’ve had a first hand experience but simply because you’re reading this.

It’s all too easy to get so immersed in these sites that we lose sight of the person doing the creating; under estimating what it takes to make a design work. We’re always trying to mediate how vulnerable to be in public spaces or how to be visible without compromising our private selves. Nevertheless, something brings us back into greater harmony.

Websites sit between exposing too much of who we are and acting as armor against invisibility. The latter can work for us until it becomes too heavy, which can happen because we stop recognizing the author who’s making your experience possible. As a result, we’re at risk of being separated from the very core of our humanity.ity.