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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

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I 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.

There is no mouse-over in iPads and iPhones

* Sent from my iPad

Re: Hello HN: I am quitting school for freelance, here's my portfolio

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Sorry, meant to upvote you but arrows are way too close/small and fingers too phat.

Somebody please give stephen an upvote.

Re: Hello HN: I am quitting school for freelance, here's my portfolio

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post #6
post #3

I 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.

My honest impression was that you must not be very good at what you do if you can make something as basic as reading your site so frustrating. Then when I came back here and read that you have to mouse over the text to read it, my first thought was "why would someone who advertises does iOS work make their site impossible to read on an iOS device?"

I did eventually go through and check out your 3 degrees of wikipedia app, and thought it was very impressive.

Re: Hello HN: I am quitting school for freelance, here's my portfolio

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Good 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 ab…

Thank you for your suggestions (especially the one about Opera). I have darkened the text, now working on other issues.

Re: Hello HN: I am quitting school for freelance, here's my portfolio

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post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a play of "low-lighting". Mouseover to highlight it. EDIT: thanks for the suggestion. I just darkened the text a bit.

There is no mouse-over in iPads and iPhones * Sent from my iPad

Also the page does not quite fit to the screen for some reason, on iPad. Could be fixed by adding some padding to the right of the body/container probably (about 30 pixels)

But I like the site overall though, very pretty

Re: Hello HN: I am quitting school for freelance, here's my portfolio

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Ditch the "clever" text mouse over stuff.

Also, you're wrecking your information hierarchy by putting your right bar vertically level with your big intro blur on the top left. Let that intro blurb sit on its own with nothing to the right of it.

Good luck.

Re: Hello HN: I am quitting school for freelance, here's my portfolio

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post #10

Good 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 ab…

Thank you for your suggestions (especially the one about Opera). I have darkened the text, now working on other issues.

Also note that most non-aesthetic mouseover interactions are pretty broken in modern usability models.

Re: Hello HN: I am quitting school for freelance, here's my portfolio

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for your suggestions (especially the one about Opera). I have darkened the text, now working on other issues.

Also note that most non-aesthetic mouseover interactions are pretty broken in modern usability models.

Agree. This page is unreadable with NoScript.
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