What are some great examples of well-designed personal websites?

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Post by negativetwelve » Sat, Dec 22, 2012, 2:51 AM UTC

My personal website is in need of a redesign but inspiration has not yet struck me. Everyone on hacker news reads a lot or at least visits lots of diverse websites, so post your favorite designs here and hopefully we can all be inspired!

Re: What are some great examples of well-designed personal websites?

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Post by murtza » Sat, Dec 22, 2012, 3:50 AM UTC

I like Derek Sivers's personal website. It is clean, easy-to-read, and has good spacing.

http://sivers.org/

Re: What are some great examples of well-designed personal websites?

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Post by hboon » Sat, Dec 22, 2012, 3:58 AM UTC

Bret Victor's http://worrydream.com. While the design is interesting, the content is killer.

Re: What are some great examples of well-designed personal websites?

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Post by jameswyse » Sat, Dec 22, 2012, 4:20 AM UTC

Codrops (awesome site btw) posted a roundup of nice websites recently:

http://tympanus.net/codrops/2012/12/18/a-creative-year-disti...

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Post by xauronx » Sat, Dec 22, 2012, 5:06 AM UTC

I'm in the middle of redesigning my portfolio page. This is where I am so far: http://claudesutterlin.com

it's nothing great but if you're interested in building off of it I'll share the code.

Re: What are some great examples of well-designed personal websites?

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Post by negativetwelve » Sat, Dec 22, 2012, 5:24 AM UTC

Awesome, thanks guys!

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Post by pdm55 » Sat, Dec 22, 2012, 6:05 AM UTC

i like this http://cirw.in/blog/lspace

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Post by alphast0rm » Sat, Dec 22, 2012, 6:36 AM UTC

hboon wrote: post #3

Bret Victor's http://worrydream.com . While the design is interesting, the content is killer.

Second this! Here's a good post about how it works:

http://www.arcfn.com/2011/12/javascript-secrets-of-worrydrea...

Re: What are some great examples of well-designed personal websites?

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Post by theanalyst » Sat, Dec 22, 2012, 6:38 AM UTC

hboon wrote: post #3

Bret Victor's http://worrydream.com . While the design is interesting, the content is killer.

Certainly a very engaging design for a personal portfolio

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Post by ishener » Sat, Dec 22, 2012, 8:56 AM UTC

hboon wrote: post #3

Bret Victor's http://worrydream.com . While the design is interesting, the content is killer.

are you kidding me?

the page doesn't even scroll using the mousewheel or amy possible key (arrows, space, pageupqdown). i have to use the tiny scrollbar on the right.

I'm using chrome on win 7.

completely unusable.