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As a designer (which I know you are not) this resume is a bit of a visual mess. Font sizes are all over the place, color blocking is sloppy and unclear and the visuals overlap the text in several places. It also doesn't adapt to mobile devices well.

Pick 2 or three font sizes and cascade them.

Pick one serif and one san serif font.

Pick a base text color one accent color for your section headers.

Clearly separate your text from your visuals.

Use some bold within body text.

Break longer text up.

Shorten the entire resume to focus on only your best work, provide an appendix at the end for your full list.

I built a clear and simple adaptive resume I made a few years back here:

www.constantwanderer.com/resume

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Hi Chris, thanks for the comments. I agree it's a bit of a visual mess compared to yours, kudos there. Although yours renders as a blank page in my Firefox (v12.0).

You seem like a cool guy. I would definitely consider having you as a co-founder.

Smart and humble (may even too much so ;)

FWIW I thought the design is great, because it comes across authentic and interesting, without being a riot of colors.

Sure it could be tightened up slightly, but for a personal website, you did a great job.

As for Chris, your site looks a bit crappy to me, and perhaps I'd think twice about using that as a reference on the slickness-o-meter. ;) PS your points may well be valid though.

Mine sucks at cross browser these days since I haven't updated in a while. Thanks for the note.

Not sure if this is helpful but Ghostery blocks Yahoo Analytics on your site and it goes completely blank.

Your resume neglects to mention which City/Country you live in. You list a phone number and email so I assume you want people who don't know you to contact you, but where are you?

Amsterdam, The Netherlands, it's on the line above the phone number and email. And the icon on top of the page.

To be clear I am referring to tsunamifury's link above, not Peter de Vos'.

You're a mental mess if you're going to pick on those things in an awesome resume that's solely using the idea of visual expression to better articulate itself. Find another thread to pick on pal...

His resume is otherwise very good. I was providing feedback he can choose to use or not from a design prospective. I would be very happy to have someone who has expertise i do not provide feedback on my work.

Your response is not helpful.

Yes you're comments are "helpful" but, you should be shedding that advice on a project that is looking for it. My comment is indirectly helpful by attempting to have people avoid leave comments like yours on great work that has no place for irrelevant points.

Yes its a visual resume, but unless he's specifically in the design field, the time you took to point all those things out could have been put to better use elsewhere.

And this response can apply to all the others that left attack-esque "advice" ...

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