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http://atily.info/

That's the v1 of my personal website.

Do you feel I should add, modify, or delete anything? What are your thoughts on it?

As for the theme I wanted something basic. Although once I add in my services, payment options, etc I will customize the home page a bit more.
 
If you're setting this up as something potential "clients" will view before hiring you, you need to have a portfolio showcasing all your completed projects .
 
All that stuff will be coming soon.
Hence why it's called v1 :p
 
I like how you've brought it to life by sharing some personal stuff. Keeps it interesting.


I think you should get a favicon.

Favorite movie:The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile
You're missing a space after the colon.

You should totally swap that image of your index with an image of your portfolio to use in your portfolio.
 
Yeah, I will be swapping the front page image sometime soon :)

As for the error thanks for noticing it I will fix it up :)
 
Landing pages are for forums, websites about stuff etc, this is a personal site.

I have added a slider to the homepage and to the portfolio page to my Media Vault project.
http://atily.info/portfolio/
 
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What do people think of the home page now? I've updated it a little bit.
 
Well the home page looks like a landing page now, which I think works in your favor.

One thing that I don't like is the gallery slider on the homepage is controlled by the mouse scroll wheel, which is annoying to me as I scroll up and down the page. But that's personal preference.

Then there is the nav drop down. I like the direction you are going with it, but there is probably 50px of space between the menu item itself and the dropped menu. It's a little much if you ask me. So you could bring it up, or just add a subtle border(maybe a slight shadow as well?) around the drop down, just to help distinguish it from the page.

I like what you did with the American Horror Story post, where you can click the tabs to the left and switch between clips from the movie, pretty neat. Although the blog post text color seems a bit light to me, it could be my monitor brightness, it might not be. Maybe something more like #555 would be easier to read? Comment form = :tup2:

On the portfolio page, maybe have a picture of yourself instead of an old screenshot of the site I'm looking at? If you're not comfortable with a picture of yourself, well... Just something else their. I'm getting a crazy inception vibe going on here(BWAAAM).

Then your resume. I'm ready to hire you just from that. My god.... The icing on the cake would be responsive, but that will come with v2 I suppose.

The contact forms could use a bit of padding, the footer doesn't match the rest of the site, the search button on the blog uses some z-indexing on hover, so it results in a little border moving, which annoys me, because I'm an asshole like that.


Mostly though I am just picking on little things, because the whole thing looks great.
 
Thans for that.

I've changed the home page a little bit just to show a sidebar and the posts at present.

There is a homepage I am working on that will be better - but it will take a bit of time to implement, due to a couple of the plugins playing around.
 
http://atily.info/

I did away with the old site. I put up a new one with a new theme.

I've also changed the reason for the site from Web Developer to blogger. I will be blogging my thoughts on all kinds of things.

What do people think of it?

Here's an example of a blog post: http://atily.info/once-season-3/
 
Hi need peoples advice again
http://atily.info/

I put a bit more content up on the home page and it's side bar I am wondering if people think it's good like that or cluttered? If cluttered how do people advise I change it.
 
I don't think it's too cluttered. Off Topix's homepage is a lot worse and I can still deal with that just fine.
 
Off Topix's homepage is a lot worse and I can still deal with that just fine.

We only have 2 columns (the forums and the sidebar)

Hi need peoples advice again
http://atily.info/

I put a bit more content up on the home page and it's side bar I am wondering if people think it's good like that or cluttered? If cluttered how do people advise I change it.

On my desktop, fully maximized window, it looks great, but if I start to re-size my browser window (and make it smaller), things don't seem to scale down and re-size too well. Mainly the 3rd column, the "Posts Calendar Comments" portion overlaps onto the facebook feed box.
 
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