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Paul Hirschi
Paul Hirschi
18,971 Points

Webpage Critique

Hi

Today I spent time getting Sassy with my personal portfolio webpage. If anyone has a free minute, a quick critique would be handy.

So far it is the mobile version only, I haven't added code yet to scale it up. So view it on your smart phone are squeeze your browser viewport.

I'll probably inject a healthy dose of php into my site to create a contact form instead of using a mailto: href for emailing. Just haven't got around to it yet.

Also, all the portfolio pictures are simply placeholders at this time.

www.paulhirschi.com

Any thoughts would be helpful.

Cheers!

Paul Hirschi

6 Answers

Laura Cressman
Laura Cressman
12,548 Points

Hi Paul, What a great site! I think it looks awesome. I only have one little suggestions, and that is when you hover over the main navigation, the borders get thicker which pushes them down. I think the box-sizing: border-box property should do the trick, unless that is the effect that you were going for. But seriously, great work, and I loved the picture of your "design team" :)

Paul Hirschi
Paul Hirschi
18,971 Points

Awesome. Thanks Laura. And thanks for finding that little buggy doodad with the nav. I really appreciate you taking the time.

Jonathan Martinez
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Jonathan Martinez
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 6,439 Points

Cool website! If these are the type of skills I'm going to get around 8,000 points then I'm excited. The only real critique I have is that the arrow in your profile threw me off haha. I thought it lead to something. Other than that everything works fine and it's really just your preference on how you want it to look.

Paul Hirschi
Paul Hirschi
18,971 Points

Thanks Jonathan. I really appreciate you taking the time. And I agree with the arrow, it's probably non-essential to the experience.

Keep working on it! Code every day!

Thanks again Jonathan!

Jason Nelson
Jason Nelson
6,209 Points

Great webpage, I hope I will be this good when I reach 8000k points, seems so far away.

Paul Hirschi
Paul Hirschi
18,971 Points

Thanks Jason! I really appreciate you taking the time. Just keep coding! Code every day.

Bella Ratmelia
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Bella Ratmelia
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 28,947 Points

just a suggestion: how about a little "back to top" link/button at the bottom of every section that will slide the page back to the top navigation? You can add some cool animation too if you're feeling ambitious :D

Paul Hirschi
Paul Hirschi
18,971 Points

Thanks Bella. I think that's a great idea. Would add to the usability of the thing. Thanks for taking the time to look it over.

Devin Gray
Devin Gray
39,261 Points

The back to top buttion would be a great idea, I also thought of creating a simple lightbox for that small image gallery you have there, jQuery basics has a great course on that. and there are some things on github that might make your one-page layout a little cooler, like automatic scrolling to the top of the next section (I haven't tried it but they're out there) But I like the site, a lot! Keep up the good work.

Paul Hirschi
Paul Hirschi
18,971 Points

Thanks Devin. I really appreciate you takin the time. Those are all features I agree would add to the user experience. Thank you for pointing them out. A few things I haven't thought of.

Thanks again for taking the time.