Hey Harrison, I was curious if you had any advice on getting clients/jobs as a freelancer, and what you see as good future opportunities in the Python space. Ive opened profiles on the popular hubs, guru, freelancer, upwork, etc. It's kind of difficult finding clients because it seems like most of them have higher expectations then they technically understand for way too little pay, have too much specialized requirements, ie. expect a developer to be expert in PHP, JavaScript, wordPress, react.JS, JSON, ajax, have Bachelors degree, oh lets not forget to add: expert in 10 other technologies, in order to be a web developer for them.
I think I am decent with flask, still amateur with Django, and I need to get better with those as well as finish your python intermediate series to brush up my skills a bit. I've improved my website quite a bit at skylinedev.net and have all my features listed there, and what I offer should be somewhat competitive versus PHP and other methodologies, though not as complex. I think the benefit of things like WordPress and other integrations is more user-friendly Interface and CMS, whereas with Python web development things are more manual and explicit. I think improving management of Python web application systems like users, content delivery, and other automation improvements is something both important and difficult to do, and I am no expert unfortunately. Maybe some more advanced functions in the flask and django series would be of great use to this community. Either way I'm impressed and thankful for what you've done so far with this website and your YouTube channel.
So I'm wondering what you think, should I look at things like data analysis and machine learning in Python (obviously your tutorials are the best starting place) to expand my opportunities, or learn WordPress and some popular related technologies?
Also I'm going to send you some more advanced SEO methodologies once I learn them and a basic flask socket I/O integration for live web chat (nginx). Alright thanks brother catch you later.
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A portfolio is where it counts, but simply having a portfolio isn't enough. Your portfolio is what people will judge.
As a programmer, I can look at skylinedev.net and decide that you can do web development if you used Flask to create it, but where you struggle in my eyes is with web design. You've got a lot of conflicting colors, imagery, ...etc. While you might disagree with what looks good, the consensus right now is that you want to be very simple, lots of white space, ideally 1 main color, MAYBE two, then the rest are just slight touches.
I am no king at web design, this was my weak spot too, but I think I made the most progress by using a CSS framework heavily, and by reading about design specifically.
I see you are using bootstrap, but your site does not scream bootstrap, it's only clear when I looked at your source code. You don't need to copy, but you want clean, fresh...etc.
I think your next step should be doing research on web design specifically. Appearances matter. Your website is your product, and you want it to look good to prospective customers, and your prospective customers will also want to see that you can make something look like how they want for their customers too. Even if you don't personally like the current era's "style," it's what the people want.
Fiverr is another freelancing place you might want to checkout.
You may consider doing some free work as well first, just to get some experience and reviews that you can share.
-Harrison 7 years ago
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great criticism, I see what you mean. I was going for lots of images and textured panels which may be a little much for a professional website. I should probably tone things down and have a simpler but elegant design. Most of the pictures on there I took and I think I make pretty good use of transparent texturing but you are right I need to look as professional as possible.
-kingfitz 7 years ago
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