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Showcasing my personal website here: [link redacted] I’m going for a very minimalistic look and it’s still a work in progress, but I’m aiming to keep load time

by natrik 7y ago

Showcasing my personal website here: [link redacted] I’m going for a very minimalistic look and it’s still a work in progress, but I’m aiming to keep load times fast, minimal JS, etc. Features I’m thinking of adding - a links page showcasing interesting links on the internet Also checkout my 404 page :)

numlock86 7y ago
I don't see anything but your name and three external links. Your 404 page shows your e-mail as base64, but it's cut off half the way (or rather bugged out) because of the CSS. From the JS my first guess would be some relation to LGBT. All put into 328 kilobytes. The cert is from Symantec ... and soon to be distrusted by all major browsers. It uses Google Analytics (yuck). Mixed script tags in body and head. No CSP present whatsoever. Same for HSTS. And more things. At least the TLS related problems I would get sorted out first before going online, even for a work in progress.
- ACow_Adonis 7y ago
  Honestly, I didn't even realise those were links at first!
- Thorrez 7y ago
  What do you mean the JS is related to LGBT? The rainbow animation? The rainbow animation is done by CSS.
  - numlock86 7y ago
    Yes, of course. A typo. CSS it is. In my mind I was already at the JS part. Specifically the part about disabling "right clicking" ... which I didn't even end up mentioning.
    - Thorrez 7y ago
      Hah, with noscript enabled I simultaneously didn't notice the right click disable, but did notice that an animation was still occurring.
- onion2k 7y ago
  This is an unnecessarily aggressive response. That's not how you give good feedback.
  - martin_a 7y ago
    I don't find it aggressive. It's honest, without any digressions or trying to be more than a list of mistakes and bad decisions that were made.
    - onion2k 7y ago
      It's very opinionated, it offers no help or pointers about how to fix any of the problems, and it wasn't asked for.
      - martin_a 7y ago
        > it wasn't asked for. Well, it was kind of "public" to begin with, so you have to expect that people will tell you what they think about it. I don't see anything wrong in that.
- natrik 7y ago
  Yeah I was aiming to keep things super minimalistic, I’m just getting started with a web portfolio and I’m still in undergrad. The website was by no means a finished product, not sure what CSP or HSTS are but I’ll look into them. I use cloud flare for the SSL cert so they should update?
dgellow 7y ago
IMHO the content matters way more than the form. And your website is empty, so I would focus on this instead of the rainbow text (which is just a bit too fast to be distracting).
- natrik 7y ago
  I am going for a minimal look however and still working on projects to put on the site.
  - dgellow 7y ago
    Then I don’t understand your definition of minimal look. To me that mean no effect such as your rainbow colors, no fluff, only the content and minimum amount of styles to do the layout. But then you need some content for this. It can even just be a short description of you and what you’re good at, what you enjoy, or what you’re looking for in the future, or anything else that you want to share. Minimalism is about limiting yourself to the minimum necessary to communicate a message or make something usable, in the case of a website the minimum is the raw content. That means that visually you would only have the actual content, without distractions. What you did is instead to remove it, which results in an almost empty page that isn’t interesting to visit.
lostgame 7y ago
I can even select the rainbow text, which just doesn't seem right. Overall, no, this is not impressive. This should be an intro page, I kept scrolling as I thought it was one of those fullpage.js kinda deals.
sjmulder 7y ago
Please don't disable the context menu. It's basic browser functionality. Also, think about whether your desire for information on visitors really justifies adding yet another data point to Google's dataset.
mxuribe 7y ago
Please don't interpret my comments as harsh...But...Disabling the context menu is not nice. What is the point of doing that? You added some code in order to disable fundamental browser behavior? And worse yet, this additional code goes against your stated goal of "...aiming to keep load times fast, minimal JS, etc." Again, apologies if this comes off as harsh. Clearly, you can code which is great, good for you! But, with great power comes great responsibility.
- natrik 7y ago
  Just disabled right clicking, I was playing around and thought it was interesting at the time. CMD-OPTION-I and the browser toolbar still allow access to it, might reenable it though with all the feedback though!

by natrik 7y ago

numlock86 7y ago

I don't see anything but your name and three external links. Your 404 page shows your e-mail as base64, but it's cut off half the way (or rather bugged out) because of the CSS. From the JS my first guess would be some relation to LGBT. All put into 328 kilobytes. The cert is from Symantec ... and soon to be distrusted by all major browsers. It uses Google Analytics (yuck). Mixed script tags in body and head. No CSP present whatsoever. Same for HSTS. And more things. At least the TLS related problems I would get sorted out first before going online, even for a work in progress.

ACow_Adonis 7y ago
Honestly, I didn't even realise those were links at first!
Thorrez 7y ago
What do you mean the JS is related to LGBT? The rainbow animation? The rainbow animation is done by CSS.
- numlock86 7y ago
  Yes, of course. A typo. CSS it is. In my mind I was already at the JS part. Specifically the part about disabling "right clicking" ... which I didn't even end up mentioning.
  - Thorrez 7y ago
    Hah, with noscript enabled I simultaneously didn't notice the right click disable, but did notice that an animation was still occurring.
onion2k 7y ago
This is an unnecessarily aggressive response. That's not how you give good feedback.
- martin_a 7y ago
  I don't find it aggressive. It's honest, without any digressions or trying to be more than a list of mistakes and bad decisions that were made.
  - onion2k 7y ago
    It's very opinionated, it offers no help or pointers about how to fix any of the problems, and it wasn't asked for.
    - martin_a 7y ago
      > it wasn't asked for. Well, it was kind of "public" to begin with, so you have to expect that people will tell you what they think about it. I don't see anything wrong in that.
natrik 7y ago
Yeah I was aiming to keep things super minimalistic, I’m just getting started with a web portfolio and I’m still in undergrad. The website was by no means a finished product, not sure what CSP or HSTS are but I’ll look into them. I use cloud flare for the SSL cert so they should update?

dgellow 7y ago

IMHO the content matters way more than the form. And your website is empty, so I would focus on this instead of the rainbow text (which is just a bit too fast to be distracting).

natrik 7y ago
I am going for a minimal look however and still working on projects to put on the site.
- dgellow 7y ago
  Then I don’t understand your definition of minimal look. To me that mean no effect such as your rainbow colors, no fluff, only the content and minimum amount of styles to do the layout. But then you need some content for this. It can even just be a short description of you and what you’re good at, what you enjoy, or what you’re looking for in the future, or anything else that you want to share. Minimalism is about limiting yourself to the minimum necessary to communicate a message or make something usable, in the case of a website the minimum is the raw content. That means that visually you would only have the actual content, without distractions. What you did is instead to remove it, which results in an almost empty page that isn’t interesting to visit.

lostgame 7y ago

I can even select the rainbow text, which just doesn't seem right. Overall, no, this is not impressive. This should be an intro page, I kept scrolling as I thought it was one of those fullpage.js kinda deals.

sjmulder 7y ago

Please don't disable the context menu. It's basic browser functionality. Also, think about whether your desire for information on visitors really justifies adding yet another data point to Google's dataset.

mxuribe 7y ago

Please don't interpret my comments as harsh...But...Disabling the context menu is not nice. What is the point of doing that? You added some code in order to disable fundamental browser behavior? And worse yet, this additional code goes against your stated goal of "...aiming to keep load times fast, minimal JS, etc." Again, apologies if this comes off as harsh. Clearly, you can code which is great, good for you! But, with great power comes great responsibility.

natrik 7y ago
Just disabled right clicking, I was playing around and thought it was interesting at the time. CMD-OPTION-I and the browser toolbar still allow access to it, might reenable it though with all the feedback though!