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Portfolio Website

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 8:40 am
by mintedjo
Hi there!
I'm going to build a website purely to demonstrate my leet skillz!!
I want to make it impressive but professional and not go over the top with unnecessary junk going on, so I want some feedback from people who know a bit about web design :-)

I'm wondering what you people think makes a good website!
and
I also want to know what you think other people think makes a good website if that differs from your answer to the first one :-)

If you were looking to recruit somebody would you go for the virtuos developer who does lots of technically challenging and impressive stuff or would you go for somebody who is focused on standards compliance and accessibility but doesnt really do anything amazingly fatastic?

Re: Portfolio Website

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 8:56 am
by John Cartwright
mintedjo wrote:If you were looking to recruit somebody would you go for the virtuos developer who does lots of technically challenging and impressive stuff or would you go for somebody who is focused on standards compliance and accessibility but doesnt really do anything amazingly fatastic?
I want both (as one body), actually. :)

You would have to describe yourself and exactly what your trying to accomplish with this portfolio website.

I am not a designer at all, so it's very dificult to demonstrate my portfolio to clients because all they generally want to see are "pretty websites". I think this is the case for a lot of programmers, so having a solid resume is much more critical.

Re: Portfolio Website

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 9:01 am
by mintedjo
John Cartwright wrote:I want both
I suppose most people would, I was hoping for some kind of prioritisation (is that a word?) of the two.

Re: Portfolio Website

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 9:02 am
by papa
Depends on what I'm looking for and what you are good at.

If I want a good designer I'd look for a portfolio site that has a good site design but also references and examples of what that person is capable of. Proffesional examples but maybe also more artistic features. So not too many but various examples.

For a programmer I agree with John. But you can have some clean features on your site without making it too much over the top.

Re: Portfolio Website

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 1:35 pm
by Theory?
I would hire a designer who studied Information Architecture.

Re: Portfolio Website

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 5:39 pm
by alex.barylski
stuff or would you go for somebody who is focused on standards compliance and accessibility but doesnt really do anything amazingly fatastic?
Bingo for me.

This industry needs standards and perhaps more importantly adoption of standards. If you can't fool a computer into thinking your work is perfect (100% W3C validation, etc) how do you plan on convincing a much smarter human your work is of the greatest quality???

I have worked on way to many projects where the developers claimed everything was fast, secure, well done, commented, etc...relative to who? Apparently our personal standards were wildly different cause IMHO those proggies needed some serious TLC. :P

Re: Portfolio Website

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 7:40 pm
by josh
Theory? wrote:I would hire a designer who studied Information Architecture.
Lol cuz you can just go down to walmart for that right? Just kidding, but most of the designers I know barely understand CSS

Re: Portfolio Website

Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 6:17 pm
by Theory?
josh wrote:
Theory? wrote:I would hire a designer who studied Information Architecture.
Lol cuz you can just go down to walmart for that right? Just kidding, but most of the designers I know barely understand CSS
I'm pretty sure pigs will figure out how to fly really soon though.

Re: Portfolio Website

Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 5:03 am
by Chris Corbyn
Theory? wrote:I'm pretty sure pigs will figure out how to fly really soon though.
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