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tfurukawa
tfurukawa
9,844 Points
Posted by tfurukawa
tfurukawa
9,844 Points

Sharing My Personal Project

Not sure if this forum is an appropriate place to share personal projects, but I would like to share this app that I have been working on for the past month. It's an app for creating and sharing your portfolio!!

http://portoshare.herokuapp.com

Although my backend Rails knowledge comes from an online bootcamp I took, almost all of the frontend implementation was made possible because of Treehouse!! So thank you!!

If any fellow Treehouse members are in need of a portfolio or want to share their own personal websites, feel free to (and I would appreciate it very much if you do so) create an account and test out the app.

Any feedback is appreciated! I understand this isn't a question, so I apologize if this post is misplaced.

thanks!!

3 Answers

Alan Johnson
Alan Johnson
7,625 Points
Alan Johnson
Alan Johnson
7,625 Points

Not sure if this forum is an appropriate place to share personal projects, but I would like to share this app that I have been working on for the past month. It's an app for creating and sharing your portfolio!!

The forum's a great place to share personal projects!

Great job on the project. It looks really cool. Did you customize Twitter Bootstrap for the theme?

Kevin Haube
Kevin Haube
12,265 Points
Kevin Haube
Kevin Haube
12,265 Points

Your site is super functional, responsive, and modern! :) I dig it! I think my only two gripes stem from a UI/UX design standpoint:

  • Typeface

  • Colors

Typeface is a huge deal when it comes to websites. I absolutely love it in the body of your website, but the navigation text immediately evades my vision. I would personally put it in the same font as the body. The teal/white combo is beautiful, but the blue text in the navigation bar throws it off for me. Have you tried setting the font color to white up there?

Functionality-wise, the site is wonderful! Couldn't help but notice the hamberger menu when scaled to mobile...did you use Bootstrap on this? I personally love that library! :)

tfurukawa
tfurukawa
9,844 Points
tfurukawa
tfurukawa
9,844 Points

Thanks for the feedback Alan and Kevin!! I still need a lot of work learning about design. I'll try out different combinations of colors and fonts to make it blend in a little more.

And yes I'm using Twitter Bootstrap. I'm not using any themes but Bootstrap helped tremendously in really expediting the frontend development.

Kevin Haube
Kevin Haube
12,265 Points

Give a look towards the Design courses here on Treehouse! I took the iOS UI/UX one to freshen up on the latest trends in Apple's designs, and it was quick, easy, and informative!