I would hire you for a smaller project or freelance project. I think overall your site is nice. Two things I would say, your hire me section does not have even padding / margin, and I would say I absolutely hate skills progress bars. Nothing against you for using them, but there are so many problems with you using them, and I think they make no sense on any person’s portfolio.
You put Node at 95%, yet you show projects that have about (what I would consider) a 20-30% Node knowledge. This is true for some others. Always back up your skills with portfolio items.
You are assuming that you know all that is required of a subject, and that you know what else you need to learn. Or you are showing that you have complete knowledge and are an expert on a subject.
Progress bars are totally relative to whoever is looking at them.
Don’t use them anywhere. They always make me cringe… I suggest instead that you list in categories such as “Strong” or “Knowledgeable”
I agree that it was somewhat rude, and I would not like it if someone said that to me. However, I do not think it is worth a flag, or admin action (i.e. delete or suspend user), and that is why I didn’t mark it as appropriate or inappropriate. I will write a note however to the other moderators, if they haven’t looked at it already.
I think you have good potential, best of luck for the job! P.S. I live about 3 hours from Chicago, great city, and I really like the grayscale photos
You’ve made a great effort, I’m in the same boat as you, I’m working on a project as a part of my third interview for a frontend position and all I have is a portfolio, the opportunities do come. I haven’t checked everything but your contact page takes on average 7 seconds to load, that’s way too long, the main culprit is probably the background image being almost 4mb, that’s something you have to fix asap imo. look into image resizing and optimizing images for the web. To do it fast for example you could just open it with photoshop and “save for web & devices”, that alone will make it probably around 200ks (some would argue that is still a lot, but it’s a background after all, it can be a bit big, just not 3.8mb).
Well I usually do a normal job search in normal job seeking websites but I found that there’s a few that specialize in tech jobs. Anyways, when I see one that I like, I usually just get the company name and go to their page and look for a contact form there…I have a good e-mail template, that makes it obvious that I have checked what they are looking for, I mean I tweak it for every offer. Honestly, I’m astonished with the response ratio, I don’t know if it’s Barcelona or what, but I have sent a total of 12 e-mails, and in the course of a month I did 3 interviews, I actually just started looking for a job as a frontend a month ago.
Hmm yea it’s in Spanish, but it’s really nothing special, I just sat one day for half an hour and wrote a few lines properly with lines that you would change for every advert, like "your offer caught my attention because you ask for XXX and XXX and that’s something I’m very familiar with, you could see an example of that here: link. Things like that.
That post really confirmed what I already knew, the bars displaying my technical skills in my portfolio make no sense, I liked that part. However, employers seem to love to ask for you to put a number to your skill level, a percentage or a skill bar, I got asked today if I considered my Javascript to be above a 5 for example, I said yes but it always feels weird.
As JM-Mendez mentioned, your portfolio is pretty broken on mobile. For example, the menu bar covers up some of the content at the top of the page, making it impossible to see. Since that is where I looked at it first, that was my first impression, which isn’t great.
People already mentioned a bunch of design problems and you said here that you aren’t a designer, which is fine (though I’d be inclined to go with a much much simpler design if I wasn’t a confident designer ). However, you also said here that don’t claim design skills, but list “Web Design” as your first key skill on your resume. If I saw that on your resume, I would expect evidence in your portfolio. (Maybe it is a confusion between “web design” and “web development” terms? I’d change it to “web development” there on your resume.)
You also mention a certificate from “Code Free Academy;” is that supposed to be “Free Code Camp?”
Good luck! You’ve gotten a lot of good feedback here that will help you polish your portfolio so that your skills can shine through when you show it to employers.
Well done I say. It takes courage for one to follow their heart and I admire you for that. I liked you website, looking at it shows that you’re a good developer and I’d hire you.
@quesurifn Hello fellow Kyle! It’s nice to meet another Kyle Couple things bro.
The font size on the home page is really small on mobile. I think you wanted to put 14px. But it’s there as 14 with no measurement. The selector is .buffer .col-md-3 p.
Don’t include sourcemaps in production, that’s extra resource that the user has to download
On the work screen, instead of having front-end/back-end options at the top, make a label on each item that says backend or frontend. Remember that when the users scrolls down, they won’t have an idea if it’s a backend of front end project.
Social icons when hovered are fully red. Both the circle and in the icon. I think you meant to invert the colors This is on the work page
On the about page, on mobile the text runs into the edge. Simple fix is to add a padding to your .text-container class
Contact page when you hover over one of your contact methods, there’s a blue underline. You can change that with setting the text-decoration: none; on the anchor tag
Thank you! I saw someone from Barbados on my google analytics doing a very thorough review of my site! I was curious. Thank you! I hope you’re enjoying the weather there. It’s 16 degrees F here in Chicago. The ‘real feel’ is 2 degrees F.
Put a link to your resume on the first page… that’s what most recruiters or HR people want to see.
Also, is this true? "Accomplished Web Developer with experience creating a best in class experience and finished product that exceeds
all expectations. "From your resume, i don’t see that yet ( class projects don’t count unless you had thousands of users )
Also, having done the interviewing and hiring of many FE people, seeing a resume with so many words is a turn-off. Keep things shorter and to the point.
Otherwise, I like the site and projects you are a part of. Now time to go out and put more real experience under your belt.
By the way, I’m in Chicago as well and I know of a couple companies that may want new FE devs.
Thank you for your reply. Here is something I want campers to take away from: DON’T HIRE SOMEBODY TO WRITE YOUR RESUME!!
I will make the suggested changes tomorrow morning.
Are you available to chat with on IM like facebook messenger or kik? I’d really like to talk to someone in the area that’s experienced. If not, no worries.