Portfolio website critique

I am not a designer, I am just starting web design, focusing to be a front-end developer somehow. I made this website to build for my personal project portfolio. Need your advice and I guess it is still in progress.(Design and content)

Portfolio Website

Thanks a lot you guys!

Hi @graphicNerd.

Anything in particular you want reviewed? The design, the content?

The design and the content please. :cry:

Alright, here is goes:

1. Update your About Me
Make your content more professional. Take a look at your competitors (this is one of many)

and then look at your copy

[quote]I’m a front end developer and I really love web development.

My goal in this web broad industry is to build my own app someday like snapshot lol[/quote]

Maybe something like

If you have any experience with frameworks (bootstrap, for example), list those too.

2. my work
Remove the “These are my personal works” and replace it with “My Portfolio”. It doesn’t need more explanation than that.

3. Social Updates
Lose the twitter feed. “Everyday hustling” doesn’t come off professional. No one is going to want to hire someone who just tweeted that. If your social pages do not focus on your professional work, I’d remove the Social Updates entirely.

4. Contact Me
I’m not sure what you mean by “Please just contact me on my phone number, thanks!”. Do you prefer people call you versus send your an email?

If so, I’d simply move the Contact Information above the form and remove that text. That way the first contact details they see is your address and phone number.

I’d also remove your gmail address, and let the contact form fill that need.

Lastly, I’d work on the contact form a bit more.

Is the red text next to “E-mail” supposed to be an error message? If so, it isn’t obvious. Maybe use “Enter a valid e-mail address”?

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I didn’t have any work experience.

Okay, then simply use

It is concise, straight forward and gives a better impression. As you get into more work, experiment with other frameworks, be sure to update that text to include the things you recently learned.

And I just changed some designs from the website that I inspired.

Site

I apologize for my poor English skill.

I honestly do like the content but your website isn’t even responsive. Resizing it to different sizes shows nothing change and it eventually starts breaking. What if I’m a client and I view this website on mobile? I’ll move on.

Well, actually you don’t even have the viewport meta tag so users will see a tiny version of your site on their mobile device. That would annoy me to have to zoom in so much and distort everything; keep scrollling left-right to find content, etc.

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I still suck at CSS and It will take me a while to learn responsive. I need to get a job first, that’s why I need tips from the pros I need to pay my bills.

I do like the design, but I’m not sure it’s a good idea to use somebody else’s template for your own portfolio site. After all, people visiting your site want to know what kind of work you do, not what somebody else has done.

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Perhaps you should volunteer for non profits and just get experience?

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I did change all the designs from photoshop though.

Might try applying a front end dev job now to know and I really need money now to eat. :cry:

Then I’d accept any job I can get. Be sure when you interview you show your willingness to learn. As someone starting out, that is your biggest asset.

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As long as its a front end dev job, I will. :smiley:

“Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.” – Zig Ziglar

Always make sure to test a design on various screen sizes/widths. You really don’t want this on narrow screens:

Try to avoid placing content over background images that it’s not intimately associated with, to avoid mis-alignment situations like this.

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Your picture is distorted.

I really like the Asian brush strokes, but think that your menu box should be below them and not overlap. The semi transparent box is distracting at best over your pretty background.

Also, as mentioned above, don’t copy other people’s work and pass it off as your own. (That is a fatal blow in my mind. Once I found that out I wouldn’t hire you!)

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How can I fix it? width: 90%?

Should I just try applying as a front end dev job to know where am I now?

Web development here is not really high standards as you guys.

That’s really a question that only you can answer, I think.

Have a look at the job, see what kind of skills they require, and if you think you can meet their requirements, then go for it - you’ve nothing to lose. As @cpradio mentioned, you can explain that you’re inexperienced, but very willing to learn. Some employers might find that more appealing than an experienced worker set in their ways.

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I’m applying for one year of experience working though.