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Posted by Luciano Bruzzoni
Luciano Bruzzoni
15,518 Points

Just showing some of the stuff I've made!

Hey there TreeHouse community! I've been doing TreeHouse and other related sites for about 8 months now and wanted to show some of the things I've built. this is my personal site: www.lucianobruzzoni.com and some of my pens: http://codepen.io/BLuciano/

Feedback is most appreciated and hopefully it can inspire those starting out too! :)

Cheers!

Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

So what technologies are you using? What are you mainly doing?

Could you do it with pure HTML and CSS? and JS?

The design isnt the best, its too bootstrap. Your contact form is poor and well, you need to work on your UI and UX design a lot.

Other than that, good job, keep it up but dont use framework at the beggining.

Gunhoo Yoon
Gunhoo Yoon
5,027 Points

Movie app seems like using very shallow database or pattern matching. It doesn't search very well. Frog game has a bug where moving right causes entire map to move right and it doesn't seem to have win condition? Also, your copyright 'site developed by me' doesn't look good.

Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

Id say to look on other websites and exactly copy them so you can learn CSS well and color theory, layout , UI and UX a bit more and well, improve the whole website .

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Luciano Bruzzoni
Luciano Bruzzoni
15,518 Points
Luciano Bruzzoni
Luciano Bruzzoni
15,518 Points

Thanks for the feedback! @Gunhoo, the api I'm using is free so maybe that's why the accuracy is not that great? As for the game I know in firefox it does that moving right bug that I still have to tinker with. Also the game runs slow (due to the sea of conditional statements xD) which causes bugs like the win condition to be missed. I've been considering redoing it with canvas though see how that pans out. And I'll change the copyright lol.

@Konrad, I do feel comfortable coding without a framework and even find it faster depending on what I'm doing. As far as UI and design skills, well, I suck in that department lol; ideally I would have a graphic designer though (I would hope). I'll work on UX though, that seems more towards my end. Or maybe I'm just confused with front-end and UX/UI? I'm focusing on functionality more design, should I still be aiming for UX and/or UI?

Thanks again! :)

Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

Well, its totally up to you!

If you are just focusing on your programming skill only, then thats , i believe, good thing to focus just on one thing.

If you are freelancing, well, me, honestly, woudnt contact you for the website, since i dont like your design and people , even if their not designers, can see a poor or a top world class design to an extend.

Your web design, can tell you that if the design is poor, then the man behind it must be poor in the skill. Maybe, i would still check if id hire you but apperance kinda matters.

Try to focus on simplicity and the look of it in basic form . Look at others and e.g. copy their footer colors etc.. nd experiment

Luciano Bruzzoni
Luciano Bruzzoni
15,518 Points

Okay, Yeah for sure that makes sense. Luckily freelancing is not in my agenda haha. At any rate I'll try to improve my site with the tips you gave me, dont want it to be a turn off when it was meant to be an asset :s. I always felt like the design aspect of my projects were lacking but didn't pay much attention to it.