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Posted by Nick Ocampo
Nick Ocampo
15,661 Points

I made a personal website

I just finished my personal website using mainly things I learned from Treehouse. Check it out www.wehatenick.com I would love any feedback I can get. I used CSS Bootstrap and some light jQuery. Everything else is plain HTML/CSS

4 Answers

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
  • I'm not a big fan of the text on the site, the color, typography, hierarchy.
  • Most of your content could be better organized and more readable if "chunked" better.
  • Your giant bullet points mention "branding" and "marketing", but I don't think I saw that mentioned in the text of the site when I skimmed it.
  • The user journeys on the site could use work

You might find TutPlus's blog series Design School for Developers helpful.

On typography in specific:

Nick Ocampo
Nick Ocampo
15,661 Points

Thanks for the resources, that's awesome! I'll definitely check that out. I would definitely say that one of the biggest lessons I learned while making this was that I need to put way more time into preparation BEFORE building the site. I didn't really going further enough in detail with my planning in terms of design and content and I found myself trying to get my content to fit the website instead of the other way around.

Dustin Matlock
Dustin Matlock
33,856 Points
Dustin Matlock
Dustin Matlock
33,856 Points

Were you going for that background effect? I may have went with more of a background blur myself. Also, just curious how you came up with the name? You might also consider a different effect for the navigation and name/logo.

Other than that I think it looks great. I like that you're actually taking the time to code things on your own and experiment with different ideas to present yourself and the design.

P.S. You may consider this section from a usability standpoint and possibly make links to those areas.

Nick's Website

Nick Ocampo
Nick Ocampo
15,661 Points
Nick Ocampo
Nick Ocampo
15,661 Points

Thanks a lot for the comments! Yeah I was going for the blur effect on the background and I was actually having a hard time deciding whether I wanted to use more blur as well. I might just add a little more. There's also definitely a possibility that I will make the labels you pointed out into links in the future when I have more content up. As for the name, it's just something I've always used as a username for stuff and I already had the domain name so I figured why not :)

Dawn Throener
Dawn Throener
1,061 Points
Dawn Throener
Dawn Throener
1,061 Points

Hi.

Glad to see that these tracks are usable :) I'm new to this so I don't have much feedback...but "Way to go!" :)

I look forward to implementing what I learn here as well.

~Dawn