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could you explain how you're implementing the goodreads part of your site? i'd love to add something similar to my portfolio. Thanks!
Looks like he's just wrapping the GoodReads RSS feed in his GraphQL server: https://github.com/jefflombard/jefflombard.com-v4/blob/maste...
At the risk of sounding pompous. I really like my portfolio site: [link redacted] Why? I built it for myself. Not for what I thought recruiters/employers wanted to see. I simply wanted a place to collect some of the projects I work on. And more importantly one that captured my personality a bit. It's not perfect, I look at it and see a ton things I'd refactor. But it get's people to laugh or start a conversation abou…
As a non-coder it feels like the learning curve for building a website portfolio is super high - even though I am told by coders that it is not. Could anyone lend some guidance on where to start?
It is not high if you don't try to reinvent the wheel. Fortunately, you can build upon generous people's work. Using frameworks is fine unless you end up using things you don't need. There is still a learning curve, of course, because you need to learn where to look for answers. But building a portfolio site is indeed not that complicated.
Non-coder here, I started with WordPress, spent a lot of time learning how to code my own theme. Then I ditched it, learned the basics about how Git works, set up a static site using Jekyll, styled it with Tachyons. Then I added a gallery functionality and a few custom tweaks, just looking things up as I went. My site is now way simpler to maintain and faster. What took hours to look up and fix now seems easy.
Putting your portfolio site together yourself is time well spent.
At the risk of sounding pompous. I really like my portfolio site: [link redacted] Why? I built it for myself. Not for what I thought recruiters/employers wanted to see. I simply wanted a place to collect some of the projects I work on. And more importantly one that captured my personality a bit. It's not perfect, I look at it and see a ton things I'd refactor. But it get's people to laugh or start a conversation abou…
What's it like being a developer in the Philadelphia area? That's near my hometown but I have a tough time searching around there.
At the risk of sounding pompous. I really like my portfolio site: [link redacted] Why? I built it for myself. Not for what I thought recruiters/employers wanted to see. I simply wanted a place to collect some of the projects I work on. And more importantly one that captured my personality a bit. It's not perfect, I look at it and see a ton things I'd refactor. But it get's people to laugh or start a conversation abou…
As a non-coder it feels like the learning curve for building a website portfolio is super high - even though I am told by coders that it is not. Could anyone lend some guidance on where to start?
1. HTML: Where you tag the content of your website. ( paragraphs, titles )
2. CSS: Where you define style of your website. (font colors, etc.)
3. Javascript: Where you define the functionality of your website. (i.e. what should happen when a button is clicked?)
For me that was the aha! moment. Everything else was just noise. Yes there is a learning curve, but it isn't all that bad if you ignore the noise.
I would recommend against all of the "Learn everything you need" type courses. and just focus on these three courses:
* https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-html
* https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-css
* https://www.codecademy.com/learn/introduction-to-javascript
That is how I started.
At the risk of sounding pompous. I really like my portfolio site: [link redacted] Why? I built it for myself. Not for what I thought recruiters/employers wanted to see. I simply wanted a place to collect some of the projects I work on. And more importantly one that captured my personality a bit. It's not perfect, I look at it and see a ton things I'd refactor. But it get's people to laugh or start a conversation abou…
Bro it's so amazing and unexpected. Great work and creativity.
But this is a really nice website: https://mango.pdf.zone/ Especially this post: https://mango.pdf.zone/operation-luigi-how-i-hacked-my-frien...
Highly recommend patio11's site and blog: https://www.kalzumeus.com/ His post on salary negotiation should be mandatory reading for all software engineers: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
Not only his site, but his comment history is also a gold mine too. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=patio11 He has helped countless people by giving great advice. I'd really suggest reading his "You Can Probably Stand To Charge More" posts. This should be essential reading for any contractors. This personally helped me double my income. Read here: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2006/08/14/you-can-probably-stand-..…
Why do I like it? Because I've literally built it by myself from scratch - starting on design (all the graphics, even the map in experience tab) to the static site generation tool that I use to manage content (will release it soon as my first truly open source project).
Btw. Any feedback will be highly appreciated.
I'm on the same boat, here are some UX Designers portfolios that I found interesting and bookmarked. Even if it's a different profession, you may find inspiration there: http://jaredgranger.com/ https://danielkorpai.com/#work https://katiemacoy.com https://www.vanschneider.com https://heyshawn.co
I burst out laughing while reflecting on how good the Tobias van Schneider design is. The use of typography is absolutely marvelous. Thanks for sharing!
Which makes me think, where do we draw the line in terms of web page size? What's acceptable as of 2019? Also considering mobile?