I started from scratch at 9:00 this morning and just put the final finishing touches on it. And by “from scratch,” I mean by “from scratch” – everything was created today: the graphics, layout, text, etc. The only thing I can’t take credit for is the datestamp at the top (though I did fiddle with that a little to get it to my liking).
Anyway, it looks slightly better on Mozilla/Firefox than on MSIE, but if you’re still using MSIE, then you’ve got a long way to go in fighting ignorance.
I welcome both compliments and criticisms, as long as either is constructive. But above all else, please be kind. Thanks!
It’s pretty good, given it was a one day effort. As a personal site, it’s fine, though were it to be for buisness, I wouldn’t give it a passing grade, but those are two entirely different things.
I do have one question though, if you know CSS (as mentioned on your “What have I done” page), why the hell are you using an Iframe for you site’s content, huh?
Looks good. Needs more content. Especially on the first page which shouldn’t be empty. Also, three copies of your resume (html, doc, text) seem excessive; I’d put them all on the “What I’ve done” page.
The “Best viewed with Netscape” bit sounds amateurish, especially to the 95% of the market that doesn’t use Netscape.
You didn’t ask, but in your resume…
Summary items #1 should be lower on the list, and #2 and #3 should be dropped. Unfortunately, those first 3 lines on the resume are real killers.
You focus too much on your job descriptions(I did X). Instead focus on accomplishments (i.e. more like your $55k in four months rate).
As you want to pursue coding or web design, add any sorts of things you’ve done in that area. If you’ve had “exhuastive and extensive experience,” I’m assuming you’ve done it once or twice for friends or neighbors or a small contract job here and there; put those in.
Instead of a regular-text mailto link, use a png image of lettering of your email address, and don’t use the image as a mailto link.
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Spambots recognize email address strings, in both plain text and in mailto links.
Anyone interested in hiring you will not mind typing out a simple email address one time.
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Same as what Ponster said. The last update text is splurged all over the contact bit.
The use of the lowercase i, as in “i’ve” doesn’t do you any favours.
The sketchy grid thing in the background is a bit lame and messy.
And the ‘best viewed by Netscape/Firefox’ is a mistake. Techy recruiters will probably understand what you’re getting at, but anyone else might think you’re not up to scratch on IE. Put your browser missionary work aside for the moment.
Not to nit-pick, but I’d expect that someone with an “extensive knowledge of HTML” would have a Web page that validates. This page is not valid HTML (http://validator.w3.org/ . No doctype definition, no alt tags, etc. If you take the time to create valid pages, then you shouldn’t ever have to have “best viewed with X” statements on your page.
Just my opinion -don’t mean to seem snarky but I’m a great believer in standards-based web pages.
No–the current mailto link is plaintext, and so your email is revealed twice.
Email-harvesting spambots can pick out email addresses both from normal text in web pages, and from mailto links in web pages. So you said you didn’t want spam, but it’s not a person that goes around harvesting email addresses, see? It’s programs that do it, automatically. They wander online and scan personal pages for recognizable strings of characters that appear to be email addresses, in the form of “something@somewhere.com or -.net”. And in the case of your page now, those programs will pick up your email address twice: once from the plaintext that you used to display it in, and once from the mailto link you embedded the plaintext as.
…So if you want to post an email address online but don’t want to attract spam, then you write the email address into an image (such as PNG) and then post that on the page as a regular image, without a mailto link on it. Because real people can still read the email address easily, but address-harvesting spambots typically do not include the ability to “ocr” the text that is displayed inside the image. Get it?
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But to add to the comments, I also think the typography on the “who am i,” “what i’ve done,” etc., buttons looks very amateurish. And the buttons themselves could benefit from a little bit more understatement. They’re way too big and obnoxious as they are now. You could leave the same amount of space to your menu items, but make the blue buttons a bit smaller. They throw the balance off the page.
Speaking of balance, the blank index page needs to be have something filling that white space. Also, the “online resume for adam…” etc., needs to be pulled in a little bit. It doesn’t look exactly right in that place. At the very least, I’d pull it over to the left a little more, and probably nudge it a few pixels down. I’d want the “g” of “freitag” to line up with the scrollbar, rather than being to the right of it as it is now. It looks a bit careless to my eye.
Also, that blue arrow you have as a graphical element pointing back to the menu buttons is unnecessary and distracting. Don’t worry, we haven’t forgotten that the buttons are still there. Really, axe it.
Otherwise, I honestly think it’s a very good and relatively neat first effort.
If you’re using this website as a way to get hired somewhere, you might want to remove the picture of you. Not that it’s not smashing and all, but some companies automatically throw out any resumes that come with pictures to remove any thought pf discriminatory hiring practices.
“My family moved to rural Davidsonville, Maryland when I was six years old, and lived there until I graduated from Queen Anne School in 1998 and enlisted in the U.S. Air Force as a tactical aircraft maintenance technician and vehicle operator.” This sounds a little bit run-on, even though I think it’s grammatically correct. Maybe you should split it into two sentences?
Seasoned typist is not as good to lead off with as all the software you are competent with, if you want an IT job.
Do you think it’s wise to tell a future employer that you are planning on changing fields to pre-med? Also, on the objectives page, you might be able to take out a carriage return or two so that the viewer doesn’t have to scroll.
“Ability to learn any office machine or product within two hours” comes off as a little cocky. Something like “Mechanically inclined” or the like sounds more modest.
That said, I really like the design of the website. Nice colors, and not too much on a page. It’s well organized, with the important bits available on the menu. Good work!
Why would I use an image instead of text, and not make it linkable? The current image is not a link.
