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    jkinney768
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    I just launched a new version of my portfolio site. It has a blog, but it’s basically empty since I haven’t blogged before, but I’m really looking forward to getting in to it. Anyway, I’d love some critique on the new site to see if there are areas where I can make it better. I’m not much of a designer, so those areas I’d really like to hear about. Any thoughts are appreciated. Here is the link [http://jasonkinney.me/](http://jasonkinney.me/http://jasonkinney.me/”)

    #142706
    jkinney768
    Participant

    Thanks! Yeah, I’m not good at coming up with designs either and took me forever to settle on something. I do agree I could use a little more line height to make reading a bit easier.

    #142711
    jurotek
    Participant

    Nicely done! Increase of paragraph font-size to .875em; would be nice.

    #142763
    elmsoftware
    Member

    Found typo…
    In your header, one of the refreshes read…
    **Front-End Developer // Blackhaws Fan**

    Blackhaws is missing the ‘k’.

    Your site looks cool.

    #142767
    elmsoftware
    Member

    Minor thought…
    The footer element ‘Hit Me With Your Best Shot’ is long and can force a wrap and then there is some slight dissonance in the footer. It would be nice if the footer headers are all the same height if possible.

    #142769
    elmsoftware
    Member

    Second minor thought…
    In the Site Map (bottom right section) the first element ‘Home’ is pretty far down, looks like it could be bumped up to be more level with everything.

    Interested to see if you can get your face in your favicon as well.

    #142775
    jkinney768
    Participant

    Thanks for the input..ill definitely use them to improve my site

    #143031
    jkinney768
    Participant

    I’ve taken most of these suggestions and applied them. I’m still thinking about some of the footer changes and the best way to do it. I was really hoping someone would notice what my illustration does as you scale down the browser :)

    #143174
    Josh
    Participant

    I don’t really have much to add, except possibly a different font choice for body text, but I just wanted to say I like the wave. ;)

    #143182
    jkinney768
    Participant

    Thank you…any suggestions for body text? I’ve never been too great at choosing/pairing fonts well. I figured a simple sans-serif would be fine.

    #143243
    jurotek
    Participant

    I experimented with font pairing lately I found that headings in sans-serif font weight 600 and paragraph text in serif like Georgia looked pretty good to me.

    #143264
    chrisburton
    Participant

    We can do better than “websafe” fonts. Check Webtype’s RE webfonts.

    I still love Matthew Carter

    #143319
    jkinney768
    Participant

    Thanks for the suggestions. I’ll definitely have to try some of these out tonight.

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