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Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by ngold » Fri, Aug 03, 2018, 4:27 AM UTC

philipmjohnson wrote: post #191

I teach software engineering to about 120 undergraduates a year, and require them to build a professional portfolio during the first week of class. I used to have them use WordPress, but the results were very uneven. To enable them to focus on content until their skills were sufficient to create a non-embarrassing custom design, I created the open source project TechFolios: http://techfolios.github.io/ I've just fini…

Nice work. I'm replying just to bookmark this and look into it further. Thanks.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by kickscondor » Fri, Aug 03, 2018, 4:40 AM UTC

ivanech wrote: post #185

kickscondor wrote: post #161

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I have bookmarked the pastels blog entry to revisit - I think this is a fun post. Your blue puts you with the other link here https://moeamaya.com/ which is good company. One question: is there a reason you chose to go with left-right arrows on the photo page and scrolling on the code page? You are doing good work. Continue.

Thanks! I went with left-right arrows because that's pretty much the standard for fine art photographers and I did scrolling on the code page because I suspect that developers would get frustrated with the lack of information density. I feel weird that the photos are the odd page out, but I struggled with finding an alternative when I made this.

Ok, that makes sense. I like that.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by osiutino » Fri, Aug 03, 2018, 4:58 AM UTC

kotrunga wrote: post #27

bbaumgar wrote: post #16

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I'm about 90% through a rework of my personal site, https://www.brentbaum.com/ Would love feedback on what works / doesn't work design-wise.

The front page looks awesome. I'm using Firefox on OSX- for some reason I can't scroll down. Maybe it's just not implemented yet?

Chrome on Ubuntu does not work also.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by mblode » Fri, Aug 03, 2018, 5:05 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…

I recently built my personal site and this is the first time I'm sharing it with the world! https://matthewblode.com/

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by finaliteration » Fri, Aug 03, 2018, 5:06 AM UTC

spiritcat wrote: post #210

Zyst wrote: post #131

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This guy from Japan still has my favorite portfolio so far: https://magical-girl.site/ I shared it a while ago here, but it didn't get much traction.

well, thanks for giving me impostor syndrome

And here I can’t even get two goddamn s to line up properly.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by KennyCason » Fri, Aug 03, 2018, 5:16 AM UTC

aspit wrote: post #194

KennyCason wrote: post #134

This makes me wish I took more screenshots of my old websites. My personal sites have had some very fun evolutions, including some outrageous styles/themes. May have to checkout the Wayback Machine. I’ve migrated from Wordpress, to rails, to Hakyll, and finally to my own static site generator in Kotlin, Kakyll. :) My most recent change which significantly improved traffic was making it mobile friendly. Im also no in…

I like it -- I would make the font a little bit bigger so it's easier to read. I just did a few tweaks on it https://imgur.com/a/OfFruwF and I think its a little easier to read -- just changed font to "sans-serif" increased line height and font size to 1.25rem.

Thanks a lot, and double thanks for the specific feedback! Will incorporate. :)

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Aug 03, 2018, 5:20 AM UTC

streety wrote: post #193

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…

My personal site is https://jonathanstreet.com/ It's in need of some help so I've been looking around for inspiration. I'll be taking a look at everything posted. Some I've found previously I like: http://blog.echen.me/ https://www.liyaoxiang.com/ http://www.randalolson.com/ https://jvns.ca/ http://www.nowozin.net/sebastian/ http://www.emilio.ferrara.name/ http://danielnee.com/ http://daynebatten.com/ https://thomasl…

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Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by sajattack » Fri, Aug 03, 2018, 5:23 AM UTC

I'd be grateful if anyone had any feedback on my portfolio https://paulsajna.com

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Aug 03, 2018, 5:27 AM UTC

Zyst wrote: post #131

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 guy from Japan still has my favorite portfolio so far: https://magical-girl.site/ I shared it a while ago here, but it didn't get much traction.

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Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by wongma » Fri, Aug 03, 2018, 5:48 AM UTC

ngold wrote: post #221

philipmjohnson wrote: post #191

I teach software engineering to about 120 undergraduates a year, and require them to build a professional portfolio during the first week of class. I used to have them use WordPress, but the results were very uneven. To enable them to focus on content until their skills were sufficient to create a non-embarrassing custom design, I created the open source project TechFolios: http://techfolios.github.io/ I've just fini…

Nice work. I'm replying just to bookmark this and look into it further. Thanks.

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