http://andrin.ga
The last few weeks I've been working on getting my personal website up and running... Its mainly built off of HTML, CSS, and jQuery, and the backend is run by Node.js.
Any design or engineering advice for me?
Thanks!
I'm a 16 year old HS student - Feedback on my first personal website?
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Re: I'm a 16 year old HS student - Feedback on my first personal website?
#2Link: http://andrin.ga
Re: I'm a 16 year old HS student - Feedback on my first personal website?
#3Great stuff. Biggest issue I have is the "about section" is way too long. A huge block of text is tough to get through - it's not inviting. ALSO think a photo of you would make it more personal.ALSO I'd put a few sub points under each bullet in "work experience" ALSO I'd center the three projects in the "projects" section. Overall, great job. For more thoughts - feel free to check out my site - LoganRandolph.com
Re: I'm a 16 year old HS student - Feedback on my first personal website?
#4Great stuff. Biggest issue I have is the "about section" is way too long. A huge block of text is tough to get through - it's not inviting. ALSO think a photo of you would make it more personal.ALSO I'd put a few sub points under each bullet in "work experience" ALSO I'd center the three projects in the "projects" section. Overall, great job. For more thoughts - feel free to check out my site - LoganRandolph.com
and I know you asked for design/engineering advice - But thought content stuff could be helpful too.
Re: I'm a 16 year old HS student - Feedback on my first personal website?
#5Great stuff. Biggest issue I have is the "about section" is way too long. A huge block of text is tough to get through - it's not inviting. ALSO think a photo of you would make it more personal.ALSO I'd put a few sub points under each bullet in "work experience" ALSO I'd center the three projects in the "projects" section. Overall, great job. For more thoughts - feel free to check out my site - LoganRandolph.com
and I know you asked for design/engineering advice - But thought content stuff could be helpful too.
No, thats awesome advice! Thanks!
Re: I'm a 16 year old HS student - Feedback on my first personal website?
#6First off, good on you for seeking advice on a forum such as this. Even if you get negative feedback, nothing but good can come from additional information. You alone can choose to take this information negatively or otherwise.
Personally, I'd do away with any of the trickery (fading and scrolling stuff). Unless you can really nail it, it usually comes off as amateurish. It's also usually hard to pull off unusual font choices.
I dig the cards in the projects section, why not use those elsewhere? I'm not a fan of the color changes though, what purpose do they serve? In particular the purple behind blank makes everything hard to read.
If you're going to have sections, such as a blog, inline you should be updating the hash fragment so they can be linked to directly. Right now the only way to reference your blog is by explanation..
The navigation in the lower left is unusual and easy to miss. More commonly this goes topside, and could be a little bigger.
Good luck!
Re: I'm a 16 year old HS student - Feedback on my first personal website?
#7First off, good on you for seeking advice on a forum such as this. Even if you get negative feedback, nothing but good can come from additional information. You alone can choose to take this information negatively or otherwise. Personally, I'd do away with any of the trickery (fading and scrolling stuff). Unless you can really nail it, it usually comes off as amateurish. It's also usually hard to pull off unusual fon…
Thanks for your advice! I'm a firm believer in constructive criticism, so thats exactly why I posted it here.
I had originally designed the color changes to further differentiate each section, because otherwise there wasn't much seperating each section.
I also had written the page to be able to be linked to by each title, (#about, #resume, #projects, etc) but I didn't think about updating the hash fragment... So you're saying I should update the browser URL using javascript?
Once again, thanks for your advice!
Re: I'm a 16 year old HS student - Feedback on my first personal website?
#8Animated gif + ugly HTML that makes $1 is more valuable than node.js + jquery + whatnot that makes $0.
You're lucky to hear that advice when you're still 16 :)
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#9Hey, nice job with the Rick Roll! I'm the first one to catch it apparently.
This is nice. There's a weird glitch where the screen turns a weird blue when shrunk to a certain size while scrolled to the top.
The floating text and animations are played fast and loose, but kudos for reaching out for something different!
Nice work!
--Edit: Careful in listen Corona as "iPhone development." You might want to instead brand it as "Cross platform mobile application development" using Corona :).
Re: I'm a 16 year old HS student - Feedback on my first personal website?
#10I'm looking at it on an iPad and the text is quite difficult to read.
Symmetry is visually pleasing. The three blocks in the project section are all different heights and each has a different sized image which is awkward to look at.
When building ux and ui ask yourself does the /animation|feature|interface/ actually make the experience better than not having it. Does the animation pulling in the projects or loading the blog posts or changing the background color actually improve the users experience?
I think you are on the right path and will have lots of opportunities to build cool things.