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Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by bbaumgar »

vinceguidry wrote: post #34
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.

Looks great. Setting a line-height of 2.7rem gave the paragraphs some more room to breathe, those thick underlines made it claustrophobic in there. They're also not really adding anything to the presentation other than to break up the monotony of bare text, with the colored onHover gives the appearance of a link but then you get disappointed when they don't function that way. I'd pick some other way to highlight the…

Fantastic typography feedback, thanks.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by bbaumgar »

jamestimmins wrote: post #20
bbaumgar wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I really love this use of shadow! It creates a fantastic appearance of depth. One thought: Since the shadow redraws itself based on cursor position, when you move the cursor off of the grey background container and back on in a different location, the shadow effect seems to skip. At first I thought the site was buggy/lagging. It might be worth it to extend the CSS/JS trigger to the entire viewable document, rather th…

Good catch!

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by namanyayg »

J-dawg wrote: post #46

Anyone else find it depressing looking at all these awesome portfolio sites? I’m a halfway-competent frontend developer who can build most things when I’m given a design, but I can’t imagine ever coming up with a cool quirky idea like this by myself. Where do you even begin?

As pixelbash said. You have to keep looking at new inspiration, and your subconscious mind will ruminate on it to give you interesting new combinations & ideas.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by throwawayaway12 »

I am curious if anyone has advice/tips for getting a simple portfolio up and running. I am a physics phd student who has worked on a few side projects that I would like to showcase. I am looking into Jekyll and hosting it on github, but I am not sure if this is ideal for a simple static site.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by abledon »

J-dawg wrote: post #46

Anyone else find it depressing looking at all these awesome portfolio sites? I’m a halfway-competent frontend developer who can build most things when I’m given a design, but I can’t imagine ever coming up with a cool quirky idea like this by myself. Where do you even begin?

Find a website design you like. Find a comic / movie / art piece you like . Smash the two color scheme / designs aesthetics together . Most creativity is smashing together previous stimuli into new things. Creative people can just do it a lot more easily and unconsciously like a muscle reflex

Edit: lol even one of the other repliers is called ‘pixelbash’

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by lbotos »

throwawayaway12 wrote: post #65

I am curious if anyone has advice/tips for getting a simple portfolio up and running. I am a physics phd student who has worked on a few side projects that I would like to showcase. I am looking into Jekyll and hosting it on github, but I am not sure if this is ideal for a simple static site.

Seems great if you are comfortable with Jekyll. If not, find one that you grok and go from there.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by gbuk2013 »

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://gir.me.uk/ - static site built with Metalsmith - full marks on PageSpeed :)

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by gjstein »

rozgo wrote: post #22
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…

Dynamical systems engineer for games and simulations. Portfolio out of necessity, because I've never been good at explaining with words what I do. https://rozgo.github.io/

Love this site! Watched a couple of the videos too, and you've got some great visualizations. I know you said that you're not great at explaining what you've done with words, but having a couple of lines that express to me (especially as a non-expert) what your contribution was for each video would serve you really well: i.e. the videos look cool, but I don't know what it was that you did that was hard.

Re: Building a Kickass Portfolio

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Post by jfornear »

J-dawg wrote: post #46

Anyone else find it depressing looking at all these awesome portfolio sites? I’m a halfway-competent frontend developer who can build most things when I’m given a design, but I can’t imagine ever coming up with a cool quirky idea like this by myself. Where do you even begin?

Building a personal site is initially a design and time management exercise.

Set aside a few hours a night, and before getting into Vue.js, CSS, etc., jot down a list of pages, sketch out a layout, and gather inspiration for the visual style and any creative ideas you want to add.

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