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Discussion on: What do you want to see on a portfolio website?

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Ryan

One theory that I always had with a portfolio website is that most (if not all) information should be on a single page unless you have 20+ projects you'd like to show.

I believe you have the 4 required sections of a portfolio, however separating sections into different pages seems silly because you are forcing the user to navigate through the portfolio. Think about the user experience.

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Bertrand Chevalier

This is actually a good point. After taking some time to think about it what I will probably do is:

  • once my portfolio page is created and populated, I will set that up as my homepage so people can see the important stuff right away.
  • I will add a link to my email in the navbar for ease of access
  • I will, however, keep the segregation of the pages as is for the rest to keep my easter eggs (that I still cherish for now but that I will probably find lame very soon) but most importantly as if I keep this website on the long term, i want to be able to leverage the current structure to expand on it.

Thanks for the feedback!

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Ryan

Anytime Bertrand. I recommend looking up other developer's portfolios and seeing what they are doing. Mine is not the greatest, but maybe you can get some ideas: ryanduma.is/

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Bertrand Chevalier

Awesome, will do!
Thanks!