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Juan F Gonzalez

I like how your articles are always practical and gives us something to learn. I made my portfolio the ol' style with no frameworks, just me seeing how can I make it look cool with plain HTML, CSS and a lil' bit of JavaScript.
I went scouring the internet looking for some inspiration and then ended up doing this kind of portfolio

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Ali Spittel

The original version of this site was just html, css, js too, and it was totally fine! Just got sick of writing html haha.

I really like your portfolio!

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Juan F Gonzalez

Thank you! I kinda feel like using a framework will take out some of the "magic" of building something from scratch, although I wouldn't deny that they can be very useful and time saving.
Guess I'm used to like doing stuff with the essentials first, seeing as my first programming language ever was C.

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Beau Randall • Edited

Juan, like your portfolio, but your background is huge and takes a long time to load - nearly 13mb, and is a fairly simple graphic. You could reduce this to where it could easily be 1/1000th the size.

Your other 2 graphics are quite large for their size as well at ~200k, none of these really need to be much more than 10k or so for a reasonable fidelity.

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Juan F Gonzalez

Thanks mate! appreciate the feedback, I'm gonna see if I can make it smaller and easier to load.