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bigwes

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Nov 15, 2012 8:48 AM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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My personal website is www.bigwes.com. It is part blog, part photogallery and part auto-biography. I built it to sharpen my skills and for the sheer enjoyment of coding. There is no monetization on the site.

I would appreciate a critique of aesthetics, usability, etc. - standard web end user stuff.  I am considering enrolling my site in some judging contests to see how it fares among other personal pages.

You maybe interested to note that even though this is a small site, it ranks very high in SEO searches for "big wes". 

Thank you for your feedback!



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gsschulte

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Dec 03, 2012 2:54 PM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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First impression RED, I want to scroll down to get that off my screen.Then after a second it calms down and I can see the negative of what I assume is you in the background of the header. while artisticaly pleasing red does not do good on computer screens but I like the negative can you darken the red a little toward the burgendy so the red is not so glaring?

Second is wow nice cannon I wonder what he says about that but oh I'm on flicker now is that on purpose? why are you not hosting these yourself instead of giving away your copyright to flicker? And then I realized that this isn't wordpress. so thats okay nothing wrong with it. I also wanted to know why you do not have a gallery of some sort. I want to see more of your work faster seems silly now a days to have to click through pages when so many javascript galleries do some super cool stuff and allow on picture navigation and slideshow abilities.

then I see the my networks and I wonder why they do not have icons for the networks?

 

Then I looked through a few pages and you have a good eye. Some of those pictures are really crisp and show a thing I want to know more about, like the flux project. Are those ear horns? whats with the ladder? festival of some sort?

 

Then I noticed that you put your personal phone number? That seems weird but I hope that you used google talk for a digital number that transfers to your line so that you don't just have your phone number out there.

 

 



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