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Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by kermittd » Thu, Aug 02, 2018, 5:34 PM UTC

I’ll throw mine in the ring:

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by s73v3r_ » Thu, Aug 02, 2018, 5:35 PM UTC

kickscondor wrote: post #8

I'm always looking for personal sites that are still out there. I love some of the ones she listed. Here are some random ones I found yesterday. http://merkoba.com/ http://angusnicneven.com/ http://danieltemkin.com/ http://joelcalifa.com/ https://jacky.wtf/ https://www.jacobyyoung.com/about http://nik.works/ http://web.archive.org/web/20180501202224/https://shiba.comp... Here are two I found several days ago, but tha…

I've been gathering some inspirations for a personal site. Here are a couple I liked. (Although now that I think about it, these were linked at the end of the article).

http://julia.im/

http://joelcalifa.com/

http://nik.org/

https://flexdinesh.github.io/

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by dyarosla » Thu, Aug 02, 2018, 5:37 PM UTC

kickscondor wrote: post #8

I'm always looking for personal sites that are still out there. I love some of the ones she listed. Here are some random ones I found yesterday. http://merkoba.com/ http://angusnicneven.com/ http://danieltemkin.com/ http://joelcalifa.com/ https://jacky.wtf/ https://www.jacobyyoung.com/about http://nik.works/ http://web.archive.org/web/20180501202224/https://shiba.comp... Here are two I found several days ago, but tha…

Can’t not mention acko.net ; maybe not a typical ‘portfolio’ but more or less fits the bill too

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by acconrad » Thu, Aug 02, 2018, 5:41 PM UTC

kickscondor wrote: post #8

I'm always looking for personal sites that are still out there. I love some of the ones she listed. Here are some random ones I found yesterday. http://merkoba.com/ http://angusnicneven.com/ http://danieltemkin.com/ http://joelcalifa.com/ https://jacky.wtf/ https://www.jacobyyoung.com/about http://nik.works/ http://web.archive.org/web/20180501202224/https://shiba.comp... Here are two I found several days ago, but tha…

heres mine i've gotten some good feedback on it, and it runs ultra fast:

https://conradadam.com

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by rozgo » Thu, Aug 02, 2018, 5:48 PM UTC

https://rozgo.github.io/

I try. Dynamical systems engineer is difficult to describe with text.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by bbaumgar » Thu, Aug 02, 2018, 5:48 PM UTC

kickscondor wrote: post #8

I'm always looking for personal sites that are still out there. I love some of the ones she listed. Here are some random ones I found yesterday. http://merkoba.com/ http://angusnicneven.com/ http://danieltemkin.com/ http://joelcalifa.com/ https://jacky.wtf/ https://www.jacobyyoung.com/about http://nik.works/ http://web.archive.org/web/20180501202224/https://shiba.comp... Here are two I found several days ago, but tha…

I'm about 90% through a rework of my personal site, https://www.brentbaum.com/

Would love feedback on what works / doesn't work design-wise.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by nixpulvis » Thu, Aug 02, 2018, 5:52 PM UTC

I'm thinking about moving my site off GitHub pages to allow for some more interesting kinds of features (with a DB), though in general I strongly believe that sites like a personal blog or portfolio should be as lightweight as possible.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by azhenley » Thu, Aug 02, 2018, 5:53 PM UTC

acconrad wrote: post #14

kickscondor wrote: post #8

I'm always looking for personal sites that are still out there. I love some of the ones she listed. Here are some random ones I found yesterday. http://merkoba.com/ http://angusnicneven.com/ http://danieltemkin.com/ http://joelcalifa.com/ https://jacky.wtf/ https://www.jacobyyoung.com/about http://nik.works/ http://web.archive.org/web/20180501202224/https://shiba.comp... Here are two I found several days ago, but tha…

heres mine i've gotten some good feedback on it, and it runs ultra fast: https://conradadam.com

My suggestion is to tone down the first red and blue backgrounds.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by gbear605 » Thu, Aug 02, 2018, 5:54 PM UTC

Really cool article!

Ironically, the portfolio site appears to have a console error. Whenever the background is clicked on (to create a shape), it logs "> p5.js says: color() was expecting Number for parameter #0 (zero-based index), received p5.Color instead."

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by jamestimmins » Thu, Aug 02, 2018, 5:56 PM UTC

bbaumgar wrote: post #16

kickscondor wrote: post #8

I'm always looking for personal sites that are still out there. I love some of the ones she listed. Here are some random ones I found yesterday. http://merkoba.com/ http://angusnicneven.com/ http://danieltemkin.com/ http://joelcalifa.com/ https://jacky.wtf/ https://www.jacobyyoung.com/about http://nik.works/ http://web.archive.org/web/20180501202224/https://shiba.comp... Here are two I found several days ago, but tha…

I'm about 90% through a rework of my personal site, https://www.brentbaum.com/ Would love feedback on what works / doesn't work design-wise.

I really love this use of shadow! It creates a fantastic appearance of depth. One thought: Since the shadow redraws itself based on cursor position, when you move the cursor off of the grey background container and back on in a different location, the shadow effect seems to skip. At first I thought the site was buggy/lagging. It might be worth it to extend the CSS/JS trigger to the entire viewable document, rather than just the grey box.