Getting freelance work...?

Here are the basic problems I see in your approach. Please forgive me if I seem rude, I'm not trying to be.

• Your forum post seems thrown together. Try to make it flow more.

• Your portfolio site does not look good. You need to get a design there.

• You dont showcase your skills, you have a few HTML examples and leave us to take your word on the PHP part.

• One of your links is a empty domain

• The code you do have in your site doent validate and is very messy. Most serious clients look at this. Although I dont think you knew that it didn't validate (see next point).

• You used MS word to code your site, the meta tag matches the one I found when saving a .doc as a .html. <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered)">

• The code on gametoast is terrible. I don't want to accuse you of this because it may be wrong, but it looks just like the MS word generated code on your portfolio, just without the meta tag

With this, you will never get clients. No one is going to hire a coder who has their portfolio coded in MS word. Your portfolio is the first impression your client gets of you and the quality of your services. They know this and assume that your portfolio works are slightly better than what they will get.

Bottom line, you don't come across as a skilled programmer. Until you come across as skilled and professional, you wont get any respectable business.

http://pluble.net/pluble.html is the WIP of my new design for my portfolio. How's it look? C&C please?

As for gametoast. I didn't code that :P

The home page was pretty nice actually if you go on qarchive and look at it...

Working on validating and correcting the code on my new layout right now.


And trust me, you're not being rude at all! This is helping me out alot!

EDIT: The layout passed XHTML validation.

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...%2Fpluble.html

As far as pricing.... charge what your time is worth. I don't know if you live in a large area, but Craigslist has seemed to help me get clients ;P

Originally Posted by lase http://pluble.net/pluble.html is the WIP of my new design for my portfolio. How's it look? C&C please? As for gametoast. I didn't code that :P The home page was pretty nice actually if you go on qarchive and look at it... Working on validating and correcting the code on my new layout right now. And trust me, you're not being rude at all! This is helping me out alot! EDIT: The layout passed XHTML validation. http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...%2Fpluble.html

For a start, your layout won't do you any justice. For something so simple, (I don't dislike it because it's simple by the way) why do you need 12 divs ? It looks like very bad code, and why your divs are labelled pluble-1 up to pluble-12, I don't know. Label them logically...

I was just wondering it the layout would be good as I add in more things to serve as a place to put my resume...

What could I change?

Btw, updated with a new WIP.