Feedback for my portfolio site?

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Hey guys, this is my first post on Codecademy ever. I actually got my degree in web dev about 6 years ago, but it ended up getting put on the backburner for sometime and decided to run through Codecademy to refresh myself and learn some newer things I didn’t learn in school.

Anyways, I was wondering if anybody could provide me with some feedback on my portfolio. My old portfolio felt sort of plain, so I gave this one a bit more personality, but I’m kind of worried it might be too dorky and unprofessional.

http://www.jkcrawley.com

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Hello James,

I just started the course, but I work a lot with programmers and engineers, and I will give you my feedback as a designer who also participated in hires. For the portfolio, what is the best depends on the kind of job you’re looking for, whether it’s a small team or a big one, an entry-level job, or more of a senior position. You can be a bit casual if you wish to find job in a small cool team, to keep your character, or try to be fully professional and serious, this depends on you.

  • It’s cool that you list your skills at the top of the page and that you attach actual mini projects to look at.

  • You desided to use red colour as a background, which is a warm and aggressive color and optically places the backgrounds closer. So it’s not a good choice. Use background colors that are soothing and do not attract attention. I would strongly suggest you look at some templates of website projects with defined nice design and colouristics, find one you like, and recreate it, as design is not your skill and you’re missing out on a great first impression. You can look for example at UI8 and just get inspired from there.

  • For the CV, you should place the title of a position (e.g.,junior/mid full-stack developer) you are looking for.

  • Also, I would focus more on programming than other skills in production and forklifts. I know you spend some part of your time working this way, but now you want to be a full-time developer, so I would suggest focusing more on that. You can describe the projects and put more info regarding your passion for programming. We all start over sometimes – I’d like to learn programming since years!

I would suggest you to write cover letter that is unique for each company you apply for, sometimes it’s really the differentiator.

Good luck!