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    As the topic says, I have a web design portfolio site (www.mattdelaroche.com). I am curious what people's opinions are on it... though I am NOT asking for people to critique my design(s), but rather the content my site has to offer. Is there any information pertaining to me, my skills and services that you don't see on the site, that you think would be important enough to include? Judging by my site, would you say I'm marketable?
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      CommentAuthorJohnRiv
    • CommentTimeJul 12th 2006
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    quick comment for you... when I visited your site, it had the "Messy Ink" skin. That skin does not include the information about your involvement each of the projects, which is important information. Also I'd suggest putting together a resume in HTML format and posting that online as a separate page (if you're looking to be hired as an employee).
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    @John: I agree with your comment pertaining to the "Messy Ink" skin. Speaking of skins, the new version I'm planning to launch will use slightly different markup, and thus will NOT be a skin. This then brings up the question of how I should continue to provide access to all the skins I've made up to this point, without totally confusing the user (a little off-topic, I suppose). It would be simpler to just delete them all and replace everything with the new version (certainly would save on disk space), but obviously I don't want all those layouts to go to waste.

    As for the resume - I already have one completed, but it's in MS Word format (.doc). I suppose offering it in a plain HTML version would be better, for cross-platform accessibility. I should definately get around to that.
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      CommentAuthorkenbacca
    • CommentTimeJul 12th 2006
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    I'd post the resume as a .pdf as well. Google will spider the .pdf, I used to get lots of hits off my .pdf resume.
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    @ken: Wouldn't Google spider an HTML document as well...?
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      CommentAuthorJohnRiv
    • CommentTimeJul 12th 2006
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    yeah that's why I recommended the HTML format. I actually have my resume available in 4 formats (HTML, PDF, Word, and Plain Text). All 4 are indexed by Google, but my HTML version gets the most hits.

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