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Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by ddoolin » Thu, Aug 02, 2018, 11:52 PM UTC

brycedorn wrote: post #138

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 made one with LEGOs! https://bryce.io/

Love it! Very cool concept.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by egypturnash » Thu, Aug 02, 2018, 11:52 PM UTC

sizzle wrote: post #103

egypturnash wrote: post #54

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http://egypt.urnash.com I'm mostly an artist, and I take delight in the aggressive unhipness of my site running on top of Wordpress. It's had the same front page since 2011. Someday I should really change the menus in the blog/portfolio sections to work with touch browsers. I got comics to draw, though.

Really dig your style!

Thank you!

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by egypturnash » Thu, Aug 02, 2018, 11:53 PM UTC

kickscondor wrote: post #149

egypturnash wrote: post #54

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http://egypt.urnash.com I'm mostly an artist, and I take delight in the aggressive unhipness of my site running on top of Wordpress. It's had the same front page since 2011. Someday I should really change the menus in the blog/portfolio sections to work with touch browsers. I got comics to draw, though.

The depth of your site is mind-blowing. I will have to return and read through some of the longer comics. I love the style of Parallax.

Thanks! I'm glad to hear people outside my existing fans like how Parallax looks; it's been brewing out of view for a couple years now.

(The site's a repository for about seventeen years of my creative output. You, too, can have something that mind-blowingly complex if you just keep at it for a significant part of a lifetime. :) )

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by stir » Thu, Aug 02, 2018, 11:56 PM UTC

Dramatize wrote: post #140

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…

This is mine: http://dragthelake.com/ Tried to keep it simple

I like the small "highlights I’m proud of" section. It's a nice approach. To me it feels more, genuine, I guess? I always feel uncomfortable talking about what I'm good at. I really like how you frame accomplishments as something you are proud of without it coming off like a big marketing pitch.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by gitgud » Thu, Aug 02, 2018, 11:57 PM UTC

benjvmin wrote: post #147

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…

Here is mine! https://benjamintaylorportfolio.netlify.com/#/ Built with Vue.js and uses Wordpress REST API as a headless content management system.

Very nice! Like the lazy loading of images etc.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by kickscondor » Fri, Aug 03, 2018, 12:04 AM 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…

Just as a notice to everyone here, I am going to make a nice directory of these links at http://www.kickscondor.com/hrefhunt/. My previous "hunt" is there - but I'll make a new page there over the next day, archiving my old one.

Thank you for being generous with your links. I think there is a kind of resistance toward self-promotion of your personal pages these days. Or perhaps you feel like no one wants to see your page. Well, I do. I want to find pages that can't be found by Googling. One also has to look through every page to find the obscure pages that can be loved.

I would encourage all of you too to be curious about what is out there. There is still much to do on the web - it has just become very orderly in general.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by benjvmin » Fri, Aug 03, 2018, 12:07 AM UTC

gitgud wrote: post #175

benjvmin wrote: post #147

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Here is mine! https://benjamintaylorportfolio.netlify.com/#/ Built with Vue.js and uses Wordpress REST API as a headless content management system.

Very nice! Like the lazy loading of images etc.

Thanks so much, I actually wrote about how I achieved that as my first blog post:

https://benjamintaylorportfolio.netlify.com/#/post/lazy-load...

Instead of reaching for an external library I decided to go with my own solution and I like to think that it made me more appreciative of Vue.js in general.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by benjvmin » Fri, Aug 03, 2018, 12:07 AM UTC

kickscondor wrote: post #157

benjvmin wrote: post #147

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Here is mine! https://benjamintaylorportfolio.netlify.com/#/ Built with Vue.js and uses Wordpress REST API as a headless content management system.

Very well organized. And PDFs that go into detail on the design.

Thank you :) I worked hard on it!

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by stir » Fri, Aug 03, 2018, 12:11 AM UTC

ivanech wrote: post #135

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 would appreciate any feedback: https://www.echevarria.io/ . It's just basic HTML, CSS, and I think three small scripts for the whole thing.

Nice site! I'm biased because I use my phone so much, but if you add in a viewport tag it'll look better on mobile. I just added one in the console and I think it still looks pretty good

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by foxhop » Fri, Aug 03, 2018, 12:38 AM 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…

https://russell.ballestrini.net/about/

Static Site / blog made with Pelican and a custom theme, all open source.

It's hosted at my house on an old thinkpad 430 with a cracked LCD running SmartOS.