My "Training" Website

I've been learning asp.net for a little bit and have been practicing on my website, http://adrynsolutions.com.

One of the pages, Hobbies, I have gallery of my daughter and various martial arts images. They are randomized and change every 2.5 seconds. As I am still learning, it is pretty basic, but I got annoyed that every time I added an image, that I had to also change the randomization code to account for the new file.

Now I've modified it so that I merely have to add the images now, naming it the next file in sequence. Currently there are 17 images in the gallery (it states it on the page), so now to add to the random pick, I just upload a new image as j18.png and it adds it. The page then increments the number on the site upon refresh.


I know, kinda geeky, but I thought I would share :-D

Plus it gives me the excuse to brag about my daughter some more

 

Adrynalyne, She's beautiful!! And obviously talented, too!!

 

AFAIC there is a champion in the making if she is pursuing it.

 

Yup. She already knows what style she wants to study next.

 

Constructive criticism --- Looks like a website from the '90. And it hurt my eyes initially.

That said --- This is cool:

http://adrynsolutions.com/hobbies_images/j2.png

 

It doesn't have enough flashing, blinking banners, and marquees to be a site from the 90s. Again, training website should be a clue I use it to practice asp.net, c#, jquery, and HTML5, all tech not available in the 90s. The only page that matters is the resume page. I can't imagine why it would hurt your eyes? Dark background, white text, nothing blinking, scrolling, or flashing. The colors are pretty neutral too.

Yeah, Jenna likes this image too. I wish she didn't tilt her head, but it is a bad habit she got into. I think I broke her of it though.

 

Just constructive criticism was all...

It took a moment for my eyes to adjust when the page opened. Maybe if the text was darker -- a light gray or with a slight red shade (a warmer hue). And the background image gave me an optical illusion effect.

Maybe I just need new eyes? :confused :-o

 

I'm redoing the colors and navigation here shortly, so I will keep that in mind

 

I took a second look at your website to see if I could see what PapaDuke was seeing. I like the color combinations on the web page. The grey background color is nice. I assume, and this is just my assumption, that the texture of the grey background is maybe not pleasing to everyone's eyes. That might have to do with whether a person wears bifocals or not, I am guessing.
You might try a solid grey or a different texture in grey for the background and see if it makes a difference to some people.
Like I said I like the color combination. Nice job!

 

I'm going to be converting it to pure asp.net mvc soon, so I will keep that in mind

 

FWIW I quite like the colours of the site but as I have very ordinary eyesight I zoomed the home page to 110% so I could more easily read the text. Everything still fits and for me looks much clearer. :cool

Respectfully and not to be too picky ....but.... in your resume I think there is a typo in the second the paragraph of the qualification summary top of page. It says "I am a quick study." and you possibly meant I am quick to study. For the sake of brevity I would change it to something like I am a very fast learner and if there is something I do not know, then I take whatever action's required to find the answer.
Also you could give the line "My experience with QA, software development, and technical support has given me invaluable critical thinking skills to excel at anything I do." a boost by adding a couple of words so it becomes My experience with QA, software development, and technical support has given me invaluable insight and honed my critical thinking skills to excel at anything I do.

I used to be the head of a major department in Engineering R&D for a huge international company and in my time have read many resumes. Personally I favour the ones like yours that are "to the point" without fancy margins or unusual fonts for the headings and are brief yet still factual. If I see a really fancy layout or coloured paper then I think what are they trying to obscure with all this artwork and if I have to read more than one or at most two pages then you have lost me

One last tip, try and work into the summary that you can work in a "team" situation and that you have integrity as you could be brilliant at what you do but a manager would be loathe to employ a lazy troublemaker or someone who can't work with others. Something like I can easily work within a team situation and with a good work ethic and confidence would be happy to lead the team. Still needs some work on the sentence structure but this was off the top of my head.

Cheers

 

No, I meant study as a noun Thanks for looking out though, I occasionally introduce typos and such into the HTML when I am not paying attention.


http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/quick+study

quick study

noun
someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily


I have 27 inch monitors, so everything looks ginormous. I guess I should look on smaller monitors and check

 

I'll rework my summary. Thanks!

 

This might be a country/language difference of meaning but here in Australia acquiring knowledge comes from learning and study in this context relates researching and practicing what you have learnt and "quick study" is not in the Macquarrie nor the Oxford dictionaries which are the final say for words in Australia. BTW I also tried Merriam Webster but they wanted me to subscribe and also "quick study" isn't in Chambers dictionary either.

Here is a link to the Oxford dictionary explanation of study but too big to cut and paste into a quote box

Hehehe I have a 40" monitor but I am legally blind with only 16% sight in my left eye and 8% sight in my right eye and with almost no peripheral vision it sometimes makes things pretty tricky to walk about
Even with my big screen I still needed to zoom an extra 10% just for better clarity in the text :cool

 

Hi Adrynalyne

Hope you don't mind me saying this, but I don't like the way the randomization is working.
The duration is sometimes much too short and some images repeat too soon.
I know it's interesting to play with that type of code and those gimmicks can be enticing.
I suggest that you abandon the randomizing, set a duration of at least 3 seconds and
put them in a set order. That way you'll have more control and the viewing experience
will be much more consistent and predictable.
You might even want to display a collating number so people will know how many there are
and when they have returned to the first picture.

If you want to make it more interactive, you could put in a choice for 'auto' play or
user selected by key press or mouse click. You could even provide forward and back navigation.
That will certainly give you plenty to work on.
If you do the code in a generic data driven manner, once it's stable you can reuse it at will.

 

Yeah, the only way the randomization will work is if I have A LOT more images. I got it better than it was by setting it to its own method and using the same object over and over, but it still repeats too much for my liking. I am completely redesigning the site in the next few days and will keep that in mind.

 

nice site
would you enlighten us/me to the etiology or your name, "Adrynalyne"?

 

Adrenalin.


Replace the e and i with a y. Add an e.

 

Or aggressiveness

 

Gotcha
see my goof when I thought
Adrynalyne=andra lynn

 

So I have the site back up...but it needs something.


Opinions?

http://personal.adrynsolutions.com

 

For the top heading I would prefer something like

Hi.
I develop software.
Do you need my help?​

or even something like

Hi.
Does your project need a Software Developer?​

Another thing, in the intro maybe consider bullets for all the short sentences instead of them all being in the paragraph together as to me it seems a bit congested.

• My name is Jeremy Schulte.

• I am an aspiring software developer.

• I work with .NET(C#, Visual Basic, ASP.NET), Java, Jquery, HTML, and CSS.

• I have a bachelor's degree in Information Technology.

• I am presently building my portfolio for prospective employers to review.

• This site is designed to showcase my abilities in various langauges.

• Thank you for visiting and considering me for your future projects.

It doesn't need to be as spaced out as my example!!

Maybe in hobbies mention MG support.

Other than that, the content is good and if you wanted it to look more attractive then you could add some graphics but for what the site is I don't think graphics are needed.

My 2 cents

 

Fantastic ideas. Thanks

 

wow...now I know where your daughter gets her talent...I was wondering something...when you click on your name nothing happens...how about a link to a picture of you or you could link it to pictures of you at work...and also do you have a logo yet for your company? something like "Adrynsolutions" Fast forwarding into the future...also maybe have the header "Hi, my name is Jeremy Schulte. I develop software." that way your name is automatically associated with developing software. Then have your list...and thus ends my 2 cents...and hey I'd hire you...

 

Are you hiring? Kidding

All good ideas. I just have to get a good picture of me. I am not very photogenic.