Here is feedback on your professional portfolios. Note that I am just sampling various projects and not providing comprehensive feedback. Most portfolios exhibit one or more of these problems; don’t assume that because your portfolio is not mentioned, it’s OK. Conversely, I usually show only one problem per portfolio—if yours is mentioned, it may have additional problems beyond the one I singled out!
One of the benefits of a professional portfolio over a resume or LinkedIn profile is that you can provide more than a couple of sentences of detail about projects. Project descriptions and essays should be roughly a “page” of text in length–think 2-3 significant paragraphs, or 5-6 shorter ones. You should not directly link a project to the GitHub repository, as this does not allow you to discuss what you contributed to the project and what you learned from it.
You are currently required to have two essays and three projects:
If you don’t have any work, activities, or awards, then delete those sections:
It’s tempting to just google around and throw some images into your projects and essays that are pretty generic. Resist this temptation. Images should be directly related and add some value. If you have a generic image, there should only be one.
Obviously, images should appear on the page; there should not be broken image link icons.
TechFolios provides some simple formatting commands to make images small and inline. Use them to make your essays look better:
At the least, your site should not contain spelling errors. After it is deployed, read through it carefully.
If your headshot is a “lozenge”, or if project summary page images don’t align, it’s because the image needs to be cropped to be a square.
This is presenting other people’s work as your own. Not cool.
It’s always good to check the guidelines: