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Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?

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Post by lucideer »

hfsktr wrote: post #26
Gigablah wrote: post #23

https://acko.net A jaw-dropping website by Steven Wittens that pushes the boundaries of what your browser can do. Nothing I've seen has ever topped this wizardry. (You should view it on desktop, with WebGL capability.)

I didn't see what was so special. You will need to enable javascript if you have that disabled. [Edit: with javascript it's cool the first time but if I want to read an article I don't need the animation every time...] I only read one article but it was really well written and presented. [re-edit] I was not being dismissive or negative. Since I didn't have JS enabled I didn't know I was missing anything. This site (u…

I'm not sure why this comment is receiving downvotes, unless those downvoters have not read past the first 7 words - it's fair, complimentary, and points out one very important thing:

> This site (unlike many) was functional without JS

While I don't echo hfsktr's views on not seeing what's special - Steven Wittens' work is mindblowing - but I think the fact he has a site that is so Javascript-centric in content, while also being so perfectly functional and rich without, is doubly commendable.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?

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Post by GrinningFool »

federcheese wrote: post #237
GrinningFool wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> So build for the question "What do I want people to see if they scroll through my site without clicking on anything?" The home page of the first site could literally fit all of its quickly parseable informational content with no scrolling required and without being too dense (on a desktop - minimal scrolling would be needed on mobile). Does anyone really enjoy looking at seemingly-random large background images whi…

Hey, you guys found my old website! It's in sore need of some upkeep, I haven't touched it since the week I built it when I was in school :( I understand what you're getting at re:scan-nability and info denseness, but I believe that is what a resume for. I'm not trying to use my website as a resume, I'm trying to establish a digital presence and show off my work. If I weren't a designer and front end person, having a…

Thanks for the reply and the additional context. I hadn't considered that from the perspective of why you're showing what you're showing. Naturally design is visual, and difficult to show effectively using small chunks of text.

(But my feelings on scroll allthethings remain unchanged :D )

Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?

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Post by ahstro »

Ruphin wrote: post #192
lukaszkups wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your website throw an error in ff: Polymer is not a function ;)

I'm not even sure if it's cross browser compatible. I literally threw it together in an hour using the assets I made for one of my side projects: https://overwebs.ruph.in I'm pretty sure that one works in Firefox and Chrome at least. It's also considerably more developed :)

FYI, it neither site works in Firefox 49, which is the latest stable version as of writing this.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?

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Post by czep »

ollerac wrote: post #77

http://davidmiranda.info/ from scratch, no css framework responsive portrait by alisabishop.com i'd love feedback! edit: feel free to use it as a template for your own site! https://github.com/panphora/davidmirandainfo

Very snappy and looks great on mobile and desktop. I'm no designer but I also like the typography, the text is very readable and there's just the right amount of negative space. And content-wise, it's an impressive list of skills and projects.

Nice work!

Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?

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Post by sogen »

coleifer wrote: post #210
sogen wrote: post #31

http://kellysutton.com Stumbled upon this one yesterday, it's from a paper, but well written: https://mzucker.github.io/2016/09/20/noteshrink.html A long time favorite writer: http://www.frankchimero.com/writing/the-webs-grain/

Finally, someone with taste! These are great examples. Clean and user-friendly. They invite the visitor to spend some time reading, and display the articles using familiar conventions. Nice work! To contrast with the top 2 comments...just look at all the tacky animations, cheesy special effects, massive headshots. Clearly the people had nothing to say so they decided to bedazzle the fuck out of their sites in the hop…

Thanks! Yes, great writers and you can learn something from them, not just empty content.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?

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Post by fapjacks »

haar wrote: post #115
dougk16 wrote: post #32

First the master: http://worrydream.com/ Surprised nobody's posted it yet. Other people are also posting their own, so here's mine: http://www.dougkoellmer.com/ Other job-hunt-specific efforts: http://www.dougkoellmer.com/portfolio/ http://www.dougkoellmer.com/resume/ http://www.dougkoellmer.com/games/ Can't be totally sure but I believe they've gotten me a job or two.

http://worrydream.com was a horrible experience for me. Between the extremely slow scroll-hijacking and disabling of my vim-based scroll events it was a nightmare to try to navigate and I gave up without actually viewing any of the projects. Even using my colleagues hyper scroll wheel gave us a brief chuckle before quitting the page entirely.

Holy smokes, that was atrocious. I have no idea what was causing me to flip to different slides, if I'm even getting that terminology correct. But it was just magically happening. I didn't get very far. I think I had to re-navigate to the "bio" page about six times before I gave up.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?

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Post by johnfjacobi »

ollerac wrote: post #77

http://davidmiranda.info/ from scratch, no css framework responsive portrait by alisabishop.com i'd love feedback! edit: feel free to use it as a template for your own site! https://github.com/panphora/davidmirandainfo

Definitely my favorite one. Most of the others I clicked on were very gimmicky.
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