Hello HN: I am quitting school for freelance, here's my portfolio
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Re: Hello HN: I am quitting school for freelance, here's my portfolio
#2Hello HN,
After 6+ years in university (undergrad + graduate + research), I have decided to put aside my interests in science and to pursue a career in the web (enough academia bureaucracy)
I do iPhone & web development, and quite capable with design. I would prefer to stay in Vancouver and work remotely, but also open to other options.
Thanks,
Ivan
Re: Hello HN: I am quitting school for freelance, here's my portfolio
#3I find that the low contrast between the text and the background make this site awfully difficult to read.
Re: Hello HN: I am quitting school for freelance, here's my portfolio
#4Hello HN, After 6+ years in university (undergrad + graduate + research), I have decided to put aside my interests in science and to pursue a career in the web (enough academia bureaucracy) I do iPhone & web development, and quite capable with design. I would prefer to stay in Vancouver and work remotely, but also open to other options. Thanks, Ivan
Hey, do you have a phone number i can reach you at? My buddy is starting a wedding registry business in Vancouver (he's very well connected in that industry), and we're looking for a web designer to work with us!
Re: Hello HN: I am quitting school for freelance, here's my portfolio
#5I find that the low contrast between the text and the background make this site awfully difficult to read.
Mouse over for proper contrast. It took me a minute to figure it out.
Re: Hello HN: I am quitting school for freelance, here's my portfolio
#6I find that the low contrast between the text and the background make this site awfully difficult to read.
It's a play of "low-lighting". Mouseover to highlight it.
EDIT: thanks for the suggestion. I just darkened the text a bit.
Re: Hello HN: I am quitting school for freelance, here's my portfolio
#7I find that the low contrast between the text and the background make this site awfully difficult to read.
It's a play of "low-lighting". Mouseover to highlight it. EDIT: thanks for the suggestion. I just darkened the text a bit.
It's pretty non-obvious. I'd recommend making the text readable without mouseover if you want people to read it at all.
Re: Hello HN: I am quitting school for freelance, here's my portfolio
#8Hello HN, After 6+ years in university (undergrad + graduate + research), I have decided to put aside my interests in science and to pursue a career in the web (enough academia bureaucracy) I do iPhone & web development, and quite capable with design. I would prefer to stay in Vancouver and work remotely, but also open to other options. Thanks, Ivan
Hey, do you have a phone number i can reach you at? My buddy is starting a wedding registry business in Vancouver (he's very well connected in that industry), and we're looking for a web designer to work with us!
1-604-603-1454
Re: Hello HN: I am quitting school for freelance, here's my portfolio
#9I find that the low contrast between the text and the background make this site awfully difficult to read.
It's a play of "low-lighting". Mouseover to highlight it. EDIT: thanks for the suggestion. I just darkened the text a bit.
Consider users on touch devices, too. I'd generally avoid using hover effects, and if you must, keep them subtle and don't rely on them for usability.
Re: Hello HN: I am quitting school for freelance, here's my portfolio
#10Good luck! A few bugs/suggestions:
* I understand the goal of the mouseover highlight, but the light grey text is a little too light, I think. I didn't realize at first that I was supposed to mouse over, and assumed the styling was broken.
* The tooltip hover thing on thumbnails has some unintuitive behavior - specifically, mousing over where the tooltip would appear causes it to appear. So if I put the mouse just above "Contax T2" I get the tooltip for your barber's website. This only seems to happen after the tooltip has been shown once already.
* The thumbnails move down a pixel or two when their tooltip shows up - but once I mouse over the related link, mousing over the thumbnail itself no longer causes it to move.
* Left column is totally broken in Opera: http://i.imgur.com/0iiNT.png
