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Check out my first website

Hi Everyone!

I've just finished building my first website and I would like a few people to have a look at it and tell me what's good and what's bad. Any feedback would be great. Thanks =]

www.scruffypixel.com

11 Answers

Nice Work Paul :)

Simple and to the point. Why don't you have any portfolio work in the work section?

I intend on putting a portfolio there, I just don't have any work under my belt yet. I'm working on a few projects though, so as soon as they're done, it'll be updated.

Great work...

a typo after your treehouse link. [leaning --> learning]

Thanks, it's fixed now.

Hi Paul,

I have a few pointers for you, starting from the top of your page.

  1. A larger container size may look better seems a little cramped to me.
  2. The hero area (white section under nav) look at a serif font for the "I Build Websites" try google web fonts. Instead of white try something off white like #dddddd. Then the next line perhaps split it into two and increase the letter spacing and have a sans font.
  3. The off black section, again get the font of whitest white and perhaps the four blocks of text on the right could be along side each other so if its 12 cols have 4 * 3 give each a header title and font icon. Then for the left the what i do that could split into 6 by 6 columns.
  4. Ilike the next white part. 5 . Contact the list with icons on left give it some margin in between each one to match the height of the form.

Use a serif font for all headers and sans for content

Hope this helps

Thanks for the pointers. I'll be redoing the website after I've built a few others and have a bit more experience.

No problem.

Hey Paul,

I really like your site, very clean and simple. Just one tiny thing however - in your contact section at the bottom. It would be nice if your email address, facebook and twitter accounts would be links/boot up outlook or something like that. They look like they could be buttons but aren't at this point.

Cheers :)

Looks Awesome ! Keep up the great work !

Hi Paul,

I really like the clean design of your website. A couple of pointers/suggestions

  • I recommend using the HTML5 "required" attribute for all three input types in your form at the bottom of the page. That way your adding another layer of form validation through HTML and don't have to worry about JavaScript being turned off or any issues with Server Side validation.
    • Try playing around with CSS3 animations for your glyph icons.

Keep up the good work ! -Shawn

Awesome job! Keep at it.