Hi Jeff, I won't go into all the specifics as that has already been covered well in this thread.
In general, I believe this website has the potential to be very cool, however it just misses the mark in a few areas.
My main observation is that it is not immediately clear what product and/or service you are offering or why I should want to contact you.
I suspect this site is falling into the common trap of trying to impress other developers rather than succeeding as a business tool for you, which basically is all a website really is - a marketing tool that needs to meet an objective.
Just my 2 cents :) Keep going I am sure you will nail it.
I totally agree on all counts, what I'm presenting of myself is way too vague. I guess the main reason behind that is that I don't yet have any practical experience in a relevant field, which leads me to fall back to the very generalized "I make cool stuff for the web" tag line.
I don't want to pigeon-hole myself into a niche that I'm not sure really describes who I am and what I can do. I've looked at awesome examples of other dev's portfolios, and noticed they all have a pretty solid "I do X and Y for Z company in such and such role." I'm not really sure how to translate my personal learning experience into something tangible to represent myself in so few words.
I appreciate your taking the time to look it over!
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Hi Jeff, I won't go into all the specifics as that has already been covered well in this thread.
In general, I believe this website has the potential to be very cool, however it just misses the mark in a few areas.
My main observation is that it is not immediately clear what product and/or service you are offering or why I should want to contact you.
I suspect this site is falling into the common trap of trying to impress other developers rather than succeeding as a business tool for you, which basically is all a website really is - a marketing tool that needs to meet an objective.
Just my 2 cents :) Keep going I am sure you will nail it.
Hey Simon, thanks for the insight.
I totally agree on all counts, what I'm presenting of myself is way too vague. I guess the main reason behind that is that I don't yet have any practical experience in a relevant field, which leads me to fall back to the very generalized "I make cool stuff for the web" tag line.
I don't want to pigeon-hole myself into a niche that I'm not sure really describes who I am and what I can do. I've looked at awesome examples of other dev's portfolios, and noticed they all have a pretty solid "I do X and Y for Z company in such and such role." I'm not really sure how to translate my personal learning experience into something tangible to represent myself in so few words.
I appreciate your taking the time to look it over!