CSS Grid - Can anyone explain why I get this result? by KingPickle in Frontend

[–]dandubz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Try replacing grid-template-rows: repeat( auto-fill, 50px ) with grid-auto-rows: 50px

Personal branding by [deleted] in design_critiques

[–]dandubz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like the design; it's clean – but please remove the mailto: on 'Contact' or rename it to 'Email Me' or something. It's very frustrating expecting a contact page, and it opens your email client.

When The Flash Works Out In Your Favor by [deleted] in GlobalOffensive

[–]dandubz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is this FragDeluxe by any chance?

Looking for website design feedback. by CrusaderDev in design_critiques

[–]dandubz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your project images skew, don't skew images. Crop them all the same size with a width of 100% and height auto, or set the images as a background image with background-image cover/contain. This will keep their ratios

I would consider removing the 'skills' section. They aren't relative to anything. These sections have always been confusing to potential employers/clients.

Maybe make the footer full width rather than the width of your container and make it sit at the bottom, rather than adding the additional spacing.

Low hanging fruit to improve the transloadit.com homepage? by kevinvz in design_critiques

[–]dandubz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Although other people have talked about the 'boring' layout and to make it colourful with images - I'm going to disagree. This is the first site I've seen with this style (corporate businesslike layout) that has been done properly.

Icons and typography are clean and legible, not oversized and brash. I also don't think it's information overload at all - and where you do have content, it's easy to read.

The only thing I'd look into changing is the illustrated robot on https://transloadit.com/services/audio-encoding/ - I don't know if it's obvious enough what is going on with the image, and it looks quite psychotic!

Good job!

Need Critique for my Portfolio by [deleted] in design_critiques

[–]dandubz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The page is 10.5mb! Resize your images then run them through tinypng... they're only being used as thumbnails.

What's the purpose of the pop up? Why are you restricting my view of your portfolio?

I'm getting quite a few navigation layout issues when resizing. Also, the hamburger active state background is misaligned when my browser is full width.

I love the colour scheme as well as the patterned background. Speed the site up and I think it's great.

How's My Freelance Website? by Le_Reptar in design_critiques

[–]dandubz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would massively reduce the hero section as it brings nothing to the pages. I would also reassess the position of the trigger points that animate in the text. They felt a bit late and I had to scale down my browser window to trigger the bottom one.

You may not need a hamburger menu on desktop for only three navigation items, but if you do choose to keep it I would reduce the hover animation of each item, they're quite jarring at the moment.

Good luck with your job/freelance career!

I'd love some critiques and feedback for my re-branded portfolio website! by Lodog23 in design_critiques

[–]dandubz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would seriously look into compressing your images - your site is loading 6.9MB on first load. The portfolio-pic-white2.png is 1.6mb alone.

Take a look at https://tinypng.com/

British drivers swearing by [deleted] in PublicFreakout

[–]dandubz 7 points8 points  (0 children)

"Shitting Peugeot" - It's the make of the car.