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Any feedback for my new personal site?

Hi all!

This is my first post on IH—I've been lurking for a few months now and it seems like an amazing community. I've recently been working on a new personal site and, though I still have a bit of copy to edit and a few images to update, I'd love to start getting some feedback.

Here's the site:
https://2020.davidkaneda.com/ (staging domain)

Some bits I've struggled with:

  • I'm working on an app in my spare time, but I'd like to start looking for contract work. I think trying to target both potential investors as well as potential clients makes the site/copy feel slightly aimless.
  • Similarly, my role has generally as a designer/developer/creative director, especially with contract work, but I'd love to find opportunities as an advisor or potentially new cofounders. Again, I think this makes the copy a bit murky.
  • For some reason, writing about my own work is insanely difficult 😅

I have lots of updates planned for the future (light/dark mode switcher, page-specific opengraph images, etc.), but this is roughly the MVP I'm aiming to release soon.

Many thanks for taking a look!

on June 8, 2020
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    It's loading really slowly for me David. I would recommend something simple .. Maybe just my personal taste but too many animations and gifs

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      Dang, I worked pretty hard on the performance side, it actually gets 100 on Lighthouse — I know it took a hit from using cloud.typography webfonts and also from adding Google Analytics, but I wonder if anything else got in the way. Was it the initial page load or navigating page-to-page, or anything else in particular that seemed slow? It also doesn't have any GIFs, but does have a few animations.

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    Hi David.

    It's looking good. Everything is nice and smooth.

    I'm a total lazy user, nothing really grabbed my attention. Can you offer me a taste of your work with an image or something of that nature? Maybe as I scroll down it toggles through the pages in your menu?

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      Thanks! I do feel like the homepage needs something, though I'm also pretty minimalist, so every time I try something I end up taking it out... Will keep thinking though. Love the idea of being able to scroll from one page into another, will have to give that some thought on the technical side. Thanks again for checking it out-