Show HN: my first attempt to build a personal website

Second, I don't think HN is really the place to get this kind of feedback, but that's just me.

That said: It looks crowded, and a few things seems not to line up. You seem to like a clean, minimalist grid layout (I do too, often). However, the grids and the typography need to mesh and flow well.

For example, "Featured projects" seems to float about midway alongside "Mario Sangiorgio."

I would suggest looking at Typogridphy

  http://csswizardry.com/typogridphy/preview/#

http://www.minimalsites.com and get a feel for how grid-based minimalist sites tend to work. Not that you should copy anything there, but if you look at enough of them you start picking up subtle features.

You have more room on the page, make some use of it and give you content room to breath.

I still have to work a lot on the contents, but since it is never too early to ship I liked the idea to go online and ask for feedbacks as soon as possible.

If you want to have a look at the code, it is on github. Feel free to fork it, use it for your website and to collaborate with me in the development. https://github.com/mariosangiorgio/personal-website

Offhand, though, have you considered using a templating system like Twig? If you ever do want to make a major change to the layout, that would make it a lot cleaner. I've used (even maybe abused) ini-as-data files in some of my projects so it's cool to see someone else doing that.

I did notice there didn't seem to be a link to navigate back to the projects page, you might consider working on the navigation a bit. Looks nice, though.