How do you rate my website?

How much do you rate my website on a scale of 1-10 and why?
https://harshvats.vercel.app
Don't count my picture plz😅.

Comments

[Franco Traversaro]

"Then learned some library like React and now I am a full stack web developer who does freelancing."
Honestly, I stopped reading here. But I have to say, when I had 4 years of experience I too was confident about being a full stack developer. Now, eleven years after, I consider myself just a backend developer with some knowledge about OSs and networking.

"Some library like React" really paint a bad image of you.

[Diona Rodrigues]

I wouldn't say hate, but I think you could improve some details, such as:

• colors: maybe a palette more modern :)
• contrast: that's ok if you want to continue using the actual main color, but blue and red colors on that don't add a high contrast and it can be bad for accessibility

It's important emphasize that I'm looking at your site from a smartphone. :)

I liked the animation on header very much. And I also think you made a good choice putting the content in boxes, it's easy to read. 👌

[HARSH VATS]

Thanks Diogo

[GraphiTivity]

Try adding the below code....

div#about {
    max-width: 600px;
    margin: 0 auto;
}

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The brown is more like an earthy color... you may want to go with blue/black or red/black for this design it's just my personal opinion.

Cheers!

[Hemant Joshi]

Every Things looks fine, except the footer which stars from Let's get Social...

I would recommend you not to embed your Instagram over there and rebuild your footer...

And about the top to bottom Except Footer;

That is really simple and eye catching 😁, really loved the About Me section💥...

Cheers 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Please don't mind but would again recommend you to work on Let's get Social part and rest is all fine....

Keep the good work going💛🛸🛸

[HARSH VATS]

Thanks Hemant 😊. I think the footer is great BUT not matching the whole website colour palette.

[Alain D'Ettorre]

I am sorry to say that but I think you should improve it by choosing a better contrast in your color palette and also fix the desktop layout. Namely, it gets stretched on all the width of the monitor and should have some sort of container or max-width instead. Also, the colored "call to action" links on the bottom should not be colored to better match the chosen color palette. That's my 2 cent.

[Elirehema Paul]

If you are node developer, I'm sure that you have knowledge either in MySQL or mongodb add to known db's

[HARSH VATS]

Actually I'm learning mongodb still. Will add it after some time. :)

[HARSH VATS]

Thanks Rob.😊

[Mohammed Farmaan.]

6/10. Just because of the color choice, margins and paddings. And yeah layout as well. And I'm pretty sure you can do much better. Good luck.

[HARSH VATS]

Thanks Farmaan!

[Bobby Iliev]

Looks great! Keep up the good work!

[HARSH VATS]

Thanks bobby. Looks like you are the only one who has a great eye for real design 😊

[Anik Khan]

Hi Harsh 😊 Your website shows lots of promises.
But here is my take on this-

• Your about me section is breaking the rules of UX. Please align those text.
• Try to use icons when describing your skillset. But don't forget them to keep in good shape :P
• There is no project section! It seems like you have lots of tools under your belt but you didn't use this to build any.

Again you have a lot of promises as I can see but you have to keep on working. I love that you use your genuine thoughts and design to come up with this project. Thats very brave. Never stop!
I hope this will help you with your design -
Simple design guideline: dev.to/akdeberg/simple-guideline-f...
Develop an eye for design: dev.to/akdeberg/develop-an-eye-for...

[HARSH VATS]

Thank you Anik. I will definitely look into these resources. :)

[Andrew Baisden]

Your website is ok however I agree with what a lot of people have been saying. The spacing needs a lot of work and the colour theme is very bland. I don't think those drop shadows on the boxes look that great either. And the icons for instagram, gmail and linkedin don't match the design at all. However its simple, loads fast and explains your skills. It would be a good idea to take a look at this Design Resources for Developers
Just absorb lots of design information so that you can get a good eye for design. Also do some research on branding, UI/UX and of course colour style guides like Adobe Create as mentioned.

[HARSH VATS]

I will surely look into it. Btw thanks. :)

[Andrew Baisden]

There is also something else which is extremely helpful that I don't think anyone has mentioned yet. Create a design before you build your website. I'm not sure how good you are at design but if you at least created a design before you built your website then it would be a huge improvement as opposed to designing on the fly. Check out a free tool like Figma figma.com/ I designed my website before I built it.

[Maximiliano]

I'd give it a 5. You are on the right path.
This thread gives a lot of really nice ideas. Looking forward to seeing how it will look after the suggestions.

[Samuel-Zacharie FAURE]

On the scale of personal projects I give it 3/10.

This doesnt mean you failed and doesnt evaluate your talent as a webdev, I am just rating the website where 0 is "ugly piece of junk" and 10 is "incredibly amazing"

I love to see a work of passion and some things on it are great. The little bubbles are very nice. I love the feel of storytelling.

The main problem is the visual design.

• The color palette is a bit bland
• The boxes dont yet manage to give a good material design feeling (if you were going for this).
• The title font for social media is not great at all

I must confess I am very impressed and somewhat jealous that you managed to do such a nice website at 19. My first website was at 28 and worth 1/10. After 5 years of web dev Im still bad enough in design that I could get a 7 or 8/10 today at BEST.

Keep up the great work !

[HARSH VATS]

Thank you so much for your words sir. I hope someday when I will again ask for review of my website on dev.to , you will rate it 10. :)

[Michael Burrows]

One small thing I noticed is you haven't set a default global font on the <body> element.

Because of this the fonts in the footer are falling back to the default system serif font.

I'd suggest adding font-family: "Inter",sans-serif; to the <body> in your CSS.

[HARSH VATS]

Thanks I will edit it.

[Nikola Peevski]

Hey man. The fact that you've started working on your own personal site is a great step forward. I am not particularly fan of rating scales, so instead I'll give you some feedback. Firstly try to use as minimal Javascript as possible, you can do most things with pure CSS. Secondly you don't need flashy animations to make an impression. Thirdly think about view prioritisation, especially if you consider using it on your CV/Resume. Make it easily readable with your external links top left/right corner (that be github, linkedin etc), skills in a simple list ordered by the standard Good, Average, Have worked with only once and the rest of the space leave out for personal projects and hobbies. You can try looking at some popular spoke person's sites like John Papa. The difference is that in his site he's focusing on blog posts as you can clearly see from firstly opening the page, also you can notice his contact information at the very top. A small detail, which is more SEO related is that if you stop Javascript you'd want the first serve of the site to be accompanied with as much as information as possible. Try looking into a way of either static site generation or server side rendering for your site.

[HARSH VATS]

Thank you Nikola. I will keep that in mind. :)