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Discussion on: I rebuilt my portfolio website twice this year. Here's why.

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Victor Peralta

Looks really good, you picked up the whole "design" thing really quick! Got any tips for a developer who wants to learn to make things pretty?

Also, why did you chose DatoCMS?

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Dan Spratling

I've been working as a dev for 4 years already so I've seen some great and terrible designs, and I'm not afraid to use others work for inspiration.

Refactoring design is an excellent read for understanding why things look good and why they don't.

I chose Dato because I'm familiar with hosted headless approaches (contentful, dato, prismic) and wanted to learn one I could use with clients. I'm now looking into strapi to compare self-hosted solutions too.