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Professional Website

Hey everyone, just wanted to share my personal website on the forum. http://www.imaek.com I also wanted to show off Riley Hilliard's "Team Treehouse Report Card", which is just awesome, and I've kinda made it my own. I turned a TTH logo in an SVG and used it as a fixed background, and styled the report card a little. The rest of the site is coming together. But I'm not sure if I'm in love with it. Using PHP and Bootstrap 3 and some other JavaScripts. Play my Zombie Survival game CubeZ! Anyways, if anyone has any critiques that would be great. Thanks

8 Answers

I like the treehouse badge report card. However, when I just barely hover over a badge it begins to flicker up and down and its very jarring visually. I'm not too into the dropdown header of the 3D motorcycle. For me, it takes away from the content of the page. I also think maybe you should consider a a larger font size for your body text with a larger line height, and possibly developing a footer.

What browser are you using? Thanks for the input! yeah I think I'm going to get rid of that drop down header, it loads a random image, I may just turn it into a slider. Good input on the font size etc too thank you

  • You should reorganise the content into a hierarchy, the current nav at the top feels cluttered, most portfolio style sites go with, "Home/Introduction, Portfolio, Blog, Contact" since your a generalist you could then organise the portfolio page by skills.

  • Next don't use iframes to pull a whole page in just link it out. Also it was extremely difficult to navigate on my iphone as the scroll focus would switch without warning between the site and iframe.

  • I see what your going for with that image in the header but remember touch doesn't have a hover state.

  • ".nav .navbar-nav" instead of nav-pills as they look sloppy against a navbar.

  • That giant text dump of skills looks extremely out place why not just use your new portfolio section to show off these skills instead of just listing them. Leverage the capabilities of a website.

  • That saturation on hover over your picture.. no. Once I removed and the blurs and made the hover state the default one it looked rather nice.

  • The red and cyan text shadow on your name made me think for a moment my lcd was broken.

  • I would drop the strange vectored wood background go with black.

  • The Reports Card, Take it out of a well and remove the background color and move the whole thing to somewhere in the portfolio/skills section.

Great advice for sure Chris, thank you.. I was playing around with filters and forgot to take that saturation hover off, doesn't show in Firefox which is why I overlooked it haha

I'm trying to make a hybrid between a portfolio site and a place to put my games, demos and prototypes; I've been an indie game developer for a couple years now, just started in web development in the past 2 months and loving it, but you're spot on with your critique..I've got some work to do

I think I may rework a lot of the site, make it lighter and go for a more clean look, well structured, larger text, and find a way to show off my skills better.

no one commented on the bunny...I had to comment on the bunny.

That is one cool bunny! Made me jump back :)

I'm using a random() PHP function to show different images when you visit the site so they probably didn't see it :) thank you though!! hah

A lot of the issues I noticed were commented on already by Chris Scott. I'd suggest you might want to take a look at the book The Principles of Beautiful Web Design.

Thanks James, checking it out

I know I have a lot to learn