It's a nice site and it shows a lot of promise. I interview many candidates, but I also hired freelancers so I'll eventuate your site based on my experiences. A few questions:
1) What's the purpose of the site? Is it focused on growing a freelance business or more of personal site for recruiters? It seems to be mixing them.
While I understand that as a developer, even if you are working for organization, you want to be open for side freelance work, the target audience between people looking for freelancers vs interviewers/recruiters is vastly different. A perspective client is looking for different keywords and experiences than someone evaluating a candidate.
Your landing page looks very much like a freelancer or business website but it adds some things that would throw off a prospective client (see point 2 below).
If your site is a online business card for potential employment, it contains too much corporate jargon(ex the "user experience, custom development, and hosting" section) that isn't so important to someone evaluating potential candidates. Your "about" page is more geared towards recruiters and developers evaluating your skillset, but has a "process" portion that still makes it sound like you are running a business.
2) By "solo-developer", you mean you worked on the site yourself without a team right? It's a slight odd term to use there since all your projects are "solo" . It's up to you, but I would remove that term. It doesn't add value from a freelancing perspective.
I feel that if you want to do both freelancing and employment, try separating the pages. I like your choice of colors and branding, so you can use the same styles across the sites, but keep them separate.
By separate, I don't necessary mean different domains, but could just mean separate pages. One for perspective freelance clients and another for recruiters.
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It's a nice site and it shows a lot of promise. I interview many candidates, but I also hired freelancers so I'll eventuate your site based on my experiences. A few questions:
1) What's the purpose of the site? Is it focused on growing a freelance business or more of personal site for recruiters? It seems to be mixing them.
While I understand that as a developer, even if you are working for organization, you want to be open for side freelance work, the target audience between people looking for freelancers vs interviewers/recruiters is vastly different. A perspective client is looking for different keywords and experiences than someone evaluating a candidate.
Your landing page looks very much like a freelancer or business website but it adds some things that would throw off a prospective client (see point 2 below).
If your site is a online business card for potential employment, it contains too much corporate jargon(ex the "user experience, custom development, and hosting" section) that isn't so important to someone evaluating potential candidates. Your "about" page is more geared towards recruiters and developers evaluating your skillset, but has a "process" portion that still makes it sound like you are running a business.
2) By "solo-developer", you mean you worked on the site yourself without a team right? It's a slight odd term to use there since all your projects are "solo" . It's up to you, but I would remove that term. It doesn't add value from a freelancing perspective.
I feel that if you want to do both freelancing and employment, try separating the pages. I like your choice of colors and branding, so you can use the same styles across the sites, but keep them separate.
By separate, I don't necessary mean different domains, but could just mean separate pages. One for perspective freelance clients and another for recruiters.