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I gave myself 21 nights to design and build my portfolio site from the ground up. This is what happened.(richard.gazdik.blog)

almost 6 years ago from Richard Gazdik, product designer at YouAte

  • Nicholas HendrickxNicholas Hendrickx, almost 6 years ago

    This is looking great!

    I had some problems with the navigation though.

    I found the arrow buttons difficult to reach. I was watching the slide, then I had to move down to reach the arrows. Why not make the left and right half of slideshow item clickable to navigate back and forth? Oh wait, it actually works like this!

    I had a similar issue with the "Work" section on the front page. You can easily click the partially visible next project to flick through the slideshow, but navigating back can only happen by clicking the small left arrow below. That's a bit counter-intuitive.

    Also, I like how you cleverly called it "RGB", but the colours of the three sections on the homepage are coloured in the order of "GBR". Then again, red might be a too aggressive colour to use in the portfolio section.

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    • Richard Gazdik, almost 6 years ago

      Thanks! "GBR" is for a particular reason: R stands for Richard and it's more personal than my last name and that's why it clearly goes to the About section. B is for Blog (obviously), so the last letter remains to represent my works and I think my last name resonates well with the purpose to present my work with the outside world.

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    • Richard Gazdik, almost 6 years ago

      You're right, infinite scrolling would be the ultimate solution in the galleries so I'll rewrite my code to get there. My overall purpose was to avoid any 3rd party code or APIs (that's why I used vanilla javascript) because it'll be much easier to customize everything for my personal needs and I can iterate much faster later on.

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