He lost me at "hello guys" and a picture of cleavage. Great design otherwise though.
Wow, I didn't even pay enough attention to the picture to notice it's a cleavage.
Take me to Silicon Valley: 19 year old designer seeking opportunity
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Re: Take me to Silicon Valley: 19 year old designer seeking opportunity
#32He lost me at "hello guys" and a picture of cleavage. Great design otherwise though.
He's 19, give him a little bit of a break. I know where my mind was most of the time at 19 (alright it still is :P)
Re: Take me to Silicon Valley: 19 year old designer seeking opportunity
#33He lost me at "hello guys" and a picture of cleavage. Great design otherwise though.
He's a 19 year old college student with good design skills. I wouldn't call that a deal-breaker by any means.
Re: Take me to Silicon Valley: 19 year old designer seeking opportunity
#34Great marketing for yourself. Unless you are 100% sold on Cali (I've lived here for 5 years and I'm 50/50), I'd use this to get a contracting job and live with family and friends. Then come out here and start something when you feel comfortable/saved up. Preferably this company involves bubbles (you seem to like them in various forms and are good with them).
Re: Take me to Silicon Valley: 19 year old designer seeking opportunity
#35He lost me at "hello guys" and a picture of cleavage. Great design otherwise though.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. I was wondering if the person was making a play on words with 'silicon,' but considering his grasp of English, that might be giving too much credit.
Valley = Cleavage.
Re: Take me to Silicon Valley: 19 year old designer seeking opportunity
#36"I would love to join to your team in Palo Alto, California" You may want to broaden that statement - Palo Alto is a very small piece of the Silicon Valley pie
I'd second that. You want to say in the Bay Area. Also as a young person SF would be a lot better for him than Palo Alto. Palo Alto and the South Bay is a suburb where developers go to start their families.
Re: Take me to Silicon Valley: 19 year old designer seeking opportunity
#37There's a lot of sentiment in the HN comments that he should not leave university. For a community that is fairly bent on restructuring the education system, I have to ask: what gives? Is going to college worth it or not?
Re: Take me to Silicon Valley: 19 year old designer seeking opportunity
#38Is the entire thing just a Photoshop Save for Web document with some jQuery attached? Also the "LET MY DREAM COME TRUE" image's hover state not being preloaded made me sad. Okay to actually be constructive: It's a good time to be trying this because it's the beginning of a new year so H-1B visas are available. As another self taught young developer who's extremely eager to leave his full-time job and go to school nex…
'LET MY DREAM COME TRUE' Not being a sprite and having to load made me cringe too.
Re: Take me to Silicon Valley: 19 year old designer seeking opportunity
#39Great design, however having your text as images makes me want to cry.
In terms of design, very attractive (minus the cleavage. that's considered trashy over here) and engaging. I read from top to bottom. Copy is nice despite being broken english.
Only gripe really is you should use some kind of @font-face (check fontsquirrel.com to make your own) so that 1. your text is well, actually text 2. highlight-able, click-able & copyable 3. your load time will increase dramatically 4. SEO!
Great idea. Great execution as a designer. Wishing you the best of luck.
ALSO: Even if you don't get recruited, you still have a bright future ahead of you. Don't get discouraged and keep trying. =)
Re: Take me to Silicon Valley: 19 year old designer seeking opportunity
#40Not to be too harsh, but why would xyz cool startup hire you when they can hire someone from the usa with a degree?