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Redesigning My Portfolio Site

Ryan Furrer on August 16, 2019

Edit: 8/19/19 @ 9:45am I have merged this branch with my master branch. All links now point to my current site, ryanfurrer.dev Edit: 8/22/19 @7:10...
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Chris Achard

I always forget that Google's Lighthouse Audits are a thing. Thanks for the reminder! I should go run that on my site now... :)

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Ryan Furrer

Ha! It's easy to forget since they're built right in now. I know it was a separate website, then it was built in, then the kept it built in but also had a website...now it's back to just being built into the dev tools haha.

Best of luck on that audit 😂 and thanks for reading!

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Seth Bergman

Hey Ryan 👋

I see that you're using netlify to deploy your websites. I was just wondering if there is more code that you use to do deployments, or are the GitHub projects all HTML and CSS? I'd love to see how you deploy your projects!

I personally use Dokku to host my web apps, which is like having a self hosted mini-heroku.

Here's an example of one of my web apps. I hope that I can help with anything you need. Thanks for the post, keep up the great work! 🤝

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Ryan Furrer

Hey Seth!

I currently have one other complete project on Netlify, ezToggle. It's a simple little theme switcher I built using CSS Variables and Vanilla JS. I'll have more JS projects (as well as React) coming up in the near future!

I've not herad of Dokku but I'll look into it! I really like Netlify as it's extremely easy to get up and running, there's the continuous deployment from the connected GitHub repo, and they even offer (again very easy) form submission!

Your adopt-a-pet looks and works great, nice work!
Thanks for reading :)

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Ryan Furrer

Great catch, Evgeniy! Not to mention the resizing has the same transition-timing and just feels weird. I'll add that to the "to-do" list and fix it tonight.

Thanks so much for reading and pointing that out, and providing the solution :)

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Allen Francis

Great portfolio Ryan. I think you should reduce the font size of the ordinary text, just so it looks a little nicer.

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Ryan Furrer

Thank you very much, Allen! I agree - one of my goals for tonight is to finalize the font-sizes.

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David Pereira

Hi Ryan, I found a typo while checking out ur site. On the 'Skills' section it's languages.
Also I loved reading this😊

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Ryan Furrer

Ha! The amount I've stared at this site and didn't catch that is embarrassing 😅 Thanks for the catch and for reading! I'm glad you enjoyed

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Edgar X. González Cortés

This was a nice read. I've been working as a fullstack developer for a year and never had a live portfolio site. Let us know when you finish your projects for your portfolio!

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Ryan Furrer

Oh wow, full-stack that's great! My goal is to become a full-stack developer in the next few years.

I'll definitely keep you all up to date! Both of the other projects on the site will be completed within a month but I'll also be working on other things as well...I just started learning React this week as well so there's a lot going on 😂

Thanks so much for reading, Edgar! Let me know if you get a portfolio site up and running, I'd love to take a look at it.