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Looking for feedback on my portfolio website

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10 comments, last by thisnameislame 10 years, 1 month ago
1) I'm having a hard time identifying which field you specialised in. Is it art, programming, game-design? The title of your page should be "James Anderson - [field you specialised in]." "Game developer" is not specific enough, as you will apply for specific positions.

2) Your landing page should have clear examples of your work right there, not in a secondary page. Consider that the person evaluating your application has tons of others to go through, and will appreciate your consideration of showing the "goods" first.
Your priority should be first to show your work, then provide contact details, and only then have a résumé or biography page with your education and experience.
They will get to know you enough from an interview if they have an interest in your work (meaning, biographic text isn't as important), so make sure that they get see your work with the least amount of mouse clicks as possible.

3) Have pride in your work. It's OK to show screenshots or videos of the projects that you have participated in, but first present 'beauty shots' of only the assets that you produced alone.
This is if you're applying for an art position.

4) Use websites from established professionals as reference: http://ericchadwick.com
Look at how simple, concise and powerful it is. "My name is (Eric Chadwick), I'm a (visual artist) and you can e-mail me at (...). I made these pretty things, look."

Best of luck.
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Thanks again everyone for all the feedback and encouragement. I've made several changes and fixes today and I'll keep working on it.


- Get a proper host and a proper address. I heard (not sure if that's also the case now) that Wix doesn't work well with mobile phones and tablets. If people can't view it, people will not bother again mostly.

Wix does have mobile support now, actually. It even lets me modify the layout of the mobile version specifically (which is good because I had to fix some wonky placement of the images on the individual project pages when it first generated the mobile version.)

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