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I Built My Personal Website

Batuhan on January 19, 2020

It's been a fairly long time since i posted here. I was working on my website for about 2 days. In this short journey i learned some new things. Th...
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neoan

A little off-topic, but wanted to let you know:

Psychologically speaking, you don't want the trash icon to be the first thing the reader sees on your resume PDF.

About the site: I think it's innovative and nice. Visually appealing without being too playful or overloaded.

I am a little surprised it scores so high. My render process was relatively slow. But that could be caused by the location of your hosting provider.

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Batuhan

thanks for the comment. Can i see the stats u got from lighthouse

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neoan

Update: overall I got 87 for mobile and 98 for desktop for your site

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neoan

I didn't test your site, it was just an impression when loading it in my browser. However, I'll gladly get back to you as soon as I am in front of my PC again

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leob

Extremely slick & original website ... what tech did you use?

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Batuhan • Edited

I used html, scss, jquery and fancybox for the image gallery. Btw thank you. Made my day with this comment <3.

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leob

You're welcome. Impressed with the originality of the design, 80% of people's websites look more or less the same (not to say that they look bad, or implying that I would be able to create anything better, on the contrary) but this really stands out.

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Batuhan

I am gonna screenshot this and hang it on my wall

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leob

Be my guest ... it really is one of the coolest websites that I've seen in a while. As soon as you start moving the mouse all kinds of magic happens ;-) but seriously the animations are pretty amazing.

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Promise mangana

Nice work.

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Jared

Super slick. 👍🏼👍🏼

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Blake Furvus • Edited

This is.. Almost perfect my friend...

It's refreshing to see people from my country to be this skilled in tech

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Batuhan

<3

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Giorgos Kontopoulos 👀

@b4two neighbor, very impressive website and like the lighthouse score
keep it up !!!

PS according to your name tag you are "in need of help", what help are you in need of ?

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Batuhan • Edited

Thank you sir <3. Actually "in need of help" thing is half a joke and half not. I need a junior front-end job which is gonna help me improving my skills and i want to learn react as i go through.

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Jeremy Wambugu

What library did you use for the mouse pointer effect? also its a pretty good looking website ... I see youre a Jonas fan

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Batuhan • Edited

lol yes, with courses of jonas i learned lots of things. And i didn't use any library for the cursor. If you are curious i can make a detailed tutorial for it.