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Awesome open-source profiles, Maori

kiwigrove.com

19 pointsalexkiwi15 comments

Let me tell you how much anxiety you just saved me! I was working on 3 online projects for uni this semester to help fellow CS students struggling through freshman/sophomore classes. This seems like an excellent way to present my whole lineup with one single flyer.

Creating a self-display site has always been a huge discomfort. As a perfectionist, I'll never complete one on my own.

glad to help out, send me links so I can see the end result!

Very neat project! The flavors.me for developers?

The background photographs need to be a little larger. Both the project's and your personal site's backgrounds are 200px to thin for my 15" screen.

weird, they are set to 1280px. just updated it to work on iphones.

i'm guessing he's on a 15" macbook pro which is (typically) 1440px wide. i'm on the same, and the image isn't quite wide enough to fill the browser. no big deal.

looks great though, and am quite tempted to give it a go. just to need to find a good pic to use.

if you upload a picture that is 1440px+ wide it will work. the limitation is the size of the picture.

problem solved

developers have some ugly looking profile/portfolio sites. I made Maori for myself and hope it works for you guys too.

drop a link here if you want to be included in the examples.

Nice alex. But isn't it spelt "Kia ora"? It's a long time since I've been home to NZ - maybe I'm just out of date.

Yeah your totally right. That was just a test trying out typekit. The main kiwigrove site is way out of date.

Thanks Alex. The site looks great. I plan on playing around with that this weekend.

let me know if anything can be made easier, the goal is to make something as simple as possible!

I'm not quite sure I understand: is it more than a pared down HTML/CSS template that happens to be presented for open-source projects because you're a developer yourself?

actually I'm a designer, I work with a bunch of developers and their personal sites look awful. maori is just a simple way of presenting links to your, blog, linkedin, github, facebook, etc.

its supposed to be a personal hub site.

Do we have to keep the "Design from Kiwi Grove" footer?

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