Comment by flippyhead | Hacker News Reader

Comment by flippyhead | Hacker News Reader

First off, good on you for seeking advice on a forum such as this. Even if you get negative feedback, nothing but good can come from additional information. You alone can choose to take this information negatively or otherwise.

Personally, I'd do away with any of the trickery (fading and scrolling stuff). Unless you can really nail it, it usually comes off as amateurish. It's also usually hard to pull off unusual font choices.

I dig the cards in the projects section, why not use those elsewhere? I'm not a fan of the color changes though, what purpose do they serve? In particular the purple behind blank makes everything hard to read.

If you're going to have sections, such as a blog, inline you should be updating the hash fragment so they can be linked to directly. Right now the only way to reference your blog is by explanation..

The navigation in the lower left is unusual and easy to miss. More commonly this goes topside, and could be a little bigger.

Good luck!

Thanks for your advice! I'm a firm believer in constructive criticism, so thats exactly why I posted it here.

I had originally designed the color changes to further differentiate each section, because otherwise there wasn't much seperating each section.

I also had written the page to be able to be linked to by each title, (#about, #resume, #projects, etc) but I didn't think about updating the hash fragment... So you're saying I should update the browser URL using javascript?

Once again, thanks for your advice!

Hm, take a look at the Bootstrap scrollspy for reference, IIRC it updates your url, provided you play nice with its data api? It also gives you a class to light up the dots on the lower left hand corner, but that's nothing you couldn't write yourself.

I also am not a big fan of the color change, scroll as you go site. The colors are especially distracting if you scroll really quickly, because the timing has to catch up and you'll see colors change all at once. Font is a bit hard to read, I had to get really close to the screen to pick up the thin font on green when the page loaded.

The introduction is a little verbose. Combine that with the font, I had a hard time getting invested in it. It's a very cute story, maybe put the part about learning to code in its own section, something people don't have to pay attention to, then what you're up to right now in its' own section?

I'm kind of digging what's going on at the bottom of the page, it's more constructed and has a more consistent color scheme going on - maybe that is something that you could let flow through the rest of the site more?

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