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Mathias Szanto
3,256 PointsAfter 6 months of Treehouse courses :)
Hello, i would like to show you how Treehouse helped me to build my own portfolio website from scratch, and the evolution. Of course i didn't learn for 6 months full, i studied everytime i could, in my free time.
I am what we still call "Webmaster" in France, working with templates and CMS (Wordpress) everytime. Treehouse made me understand a lot more the code, the concepts behind, and all the tricks i needed to build the design i wanted from scratch.
The first link is the first version, made after old Nick course "How to make a basic website" (Smells like bakery) in January.
The second link is the version 3, updated today, after html/css courses with Nick and Guil !
I hope you will like the little details, and don't forget to look and click at the logo :)
Many, many many thank's to Treehouse team, they are trully the best and they built a true jewel for learning. Even the community, you, seems pretty nice.
26 Answers
daniel csillag
2,840 PointsAmazing man well done
Andreas cormack
Python Web Development Techdegree Graduate 33,011 Pointsgreat website mate.I am trying to work out to put my skills into a good php web application just need the light bulb moment.
Alex Age
Courses Plus Student 6,387 PointsReally cool! Keep going!
Stephan Kuster
7,168 PointsVery nice, love the colours and overall feel of the site. Makes me really want to get back onto my own :) The only thing I don't like so much is when sizing the window down, the 3-loop class looks very narrow. Because of the 4 column structure. Maybe adding a extra breakpoint and making it 2 columns wide(?), before getting to the mobile view of 1 column wide. It is only a little thing I have with it. All in all it looks great, keep up the good work!
Samuel Webb
25,370 PointsI liked v1 of the website, but v3 was just amazing. Good job mate.
Marcelo Retana
2,534 PointsI've been trying to do the thing with the static background picture when scrolling down. How you do that?
Take a look to my portfolio: The Bastard's Designs
Cheers, and very nice work my friend, very nice.
Marcelo Retana
2,534 PointsTHANKS
Mathias Szanto
3,256 PointsOh, thank you all for your comments, it's a -real- pleasure for me !
@Stephan: yes you are right, i will try to improve this as soon as possible !
@Marcelo: simply add background-attachment: fixed; in your selected bg :)
Marcelo Retana
2,534 PointsAnd you have to apply any "transparent" attribute to it? explain me a little bit and thank you.
Mathias Szanto
3,256 Pointsno transparence :) if you're asking for the Lion in background, i added the .png in a class (lionbg class) with thoses properties:
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center;
background-attachment: fixed;
and the brown bg with hexadecimal colors class (maroon). Then, i mixed both:
<div class="maroon lionbg">
for other backgrounds images (photos) i simply added background-attachment: fixed; :)
Emanuel Slotwinski
3,727 PointsGreat work! Well done! Anyway, do you planning to add "fixed navigation" to your webiste? It's really useful, specially for one-page sites :)
Mathias Szanto
3,256 PointsYes, i'm currently thinking about this ! i hesitate because i tested the navbar on the very top, before the sun, and the header has less impact like this. I will have to do more test i think !
Nick Pettit
Treehouse TeacherWow, really nice work! Thanks so much for posting the before and after. As an educator, it's really cool to see how you've improved. You should feel proud of what you've done here, it looks great. :)
Faye Bridge
4,879 PointsThis is fantastic! Congrats Mathias Szanto! :)
Marshall Huss
3,504 PointsThe site looks great, nice work!
Michael Watson
Treehouse TeacherAllez Mathias! :)
Mathias Szanto
3,256 PointsAh, if you could see the smile on my face :)
It's a really good moment for me, because you cannot imagine how some french professors manage young people. I leaved school at 16, because they told me i won't be able to work in web jobs (it was 12 years ago), 'cause i wasn't good enough in mathematics. So i choosed to make my own path, and i have no french degree at all (learned english and computer basics alone at the age of 12) and i'm totally autodidact.
I fought to find a good job as Webmaster/Community manager, fought to build my own little enterprise (in France they look degree, not experience, it's not like USA at all)
One day, while browsing CSS-Tricks and others webdesign based sites, i found Treehouse. At first, it was really impressive, considering the high quality of the environnement, the full english language, and the skills teached. After some months, i decided to subscribe.
And now, i consider Treehouse the only one school i ever had. Thank you Nick Pettit and Guil Hernandez professors, and thank you all the team, that i will discover later, for your kind words.
Thank you all for what you made.
Alan Johnson
7,625 PointsThis is awesome, Mathias! Great work!
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherWow! Amazing work!
Michael Poley
8,772 PointsGreat work – very impressive design skills!
Ryan Carson
23,287 PointsAwesome work! I'm really proud of you :)
Fred Zara
10,915 PointsThat is awesome!!
Andrew Chalkley
Treehouse Guest TeacherYou're awesome Mathias Szanto!
Wilt Chaimberlain
Treehouse Guest TeacherWow! The original one looks great on its own, but the improvements are really fantastic!
Guil Hernandez
Treehouse TeacherThank you for sharing your journey with us. I'm proud to have you as one of our students. Keep learning, working hard and you'll be unstoppable! :)
All the best.
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse TeacherYou are such an inspiration! Well done, Mathias Szanto!
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest TeacherWow, great great job!!! Hop on over to the WordPress track and you can open a whole new world for continuing you're awesome skills!!! Thanks for sharing :)
Amit Bijlani
Treehouse Guest TeacherAmazingly well done! Thank you for sharing and keep up the great work!
David josue
1,766 PointsMathias, this is really inspiring ! you should be very happy . I can't wait to get similar results .