| Drop the gmail email address. You have your own domain; use it. I know HN is hugging this site to death right now and the present load is atypical, so I won't comment on the performance because this isn't a real world issue. (Curious, why did you choose Apache/PHP when you appear to be a Ruby/Rails developer? It's been a while but Nginx/PHP-FPM was always a better bet for high loads.) Your strongest call to action is the freebies thing, but that's incongruent with the purpose of the site: to get people into your sales funnel. Make your "hire me" your most prominent thing and drop the "open source freebies" thing completely. By all means list your open source projects, but they should feature as part of your portfolio. Nobody's going to your site to get something for free, and for reasons I can't articulate, it cheapens your proposition. Make your contact information easier to find by putting it on every damn page in the header and footer, and if appropriate in the middle of your page too. Make it stand out too because if I want to contact you I don't want to be playing hide and go seek with your phone number. If you're able to link to live versions of the apps you've created, do so and make those links so obvious your mother would find them. The (+) icon makes me feel like I'm going to add something to something, not open up a drop down menu. Just put them as a row of links under the description rather than hiding away these important links. Follow the mantra that your visitors are stupid and tired when designing, even if they're actually bright and caffeinated. Also make sure you don't open any external links in same window/tab. Having said all of the above, it's a nicely designed site. Going off topic, the screenshot on http://www.mycelial.com/ is blurry as hell. I don't know if this is intentional, but it bothers me quite a lot. |
A great option is to put it on S3 and distribute it with CloudFront.