some feedback plz...

Everything depends on first impression. The first look at your site (without looking at the content), I will think that I've stumbled upon someone's personal homepage with nothing of interests to me, and I'll leave. But if I'm an employer and I see something professional, most likely I'll continue exploring the site.

If you want people to hire you, you should come up with a professional design, and you can show them what you can do too!

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I do not think it is professinal enough to be a business site. The pages shouldn't be more then 4 screens down on a 800X600 monitor. The buttons also hurt my eyes, they are a bit blurry. Try and keep it down to one font, maybe verdana. I would also go with a lighter background. But for a personnal site, it is the best I have seen! Good job, keep up the good work!

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1) Oooh, I'd love to hire someone who has two whole pages of "current and past pissings." You need to make it more professional, more like a resume.

2) I don't like the background much because a) it's too dark, and b) it makes me think you're a hacker?!?

3) Get off of VirtualAve, 'cause their banner ruins the webpages. Find a free host w/o banners: www.freewebspace.net

4) The mouseovers arn't too great because a) the blurryness hurst the eyes, and b) the flip image has jagged edges. Same for the top menu.

5) The blue border has to go.

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Thank you all for the input. I have to agree that mixing a personal homepage with my resume and profile was probably a mistake. Addressing some of the comments...

Regarding the menu being blurry, actually that was intentional. The effect I was going for was a blurry option coming into focus when the mouse went over it. I guess Ill try to accomplish something else with that.

Secondly, regarding Matts one font comment, I took an advertising layout class a few years ago and i distinctly remember being taught that 2 fonts is good. Usually one serif and one sans-serif. Is this not the case with webpages? I think two fonts, usually one for headings and one for text, look good together.

Here is the page I created specifically for job hunting. http://robjohnson.virtualave.net/resume2/resume2.htm

It is kinda boring IMO but it is much more professional looking. Also...
-It does extend more than 4 screens, but I dont think its too long and it puts all the info on one page.
-I havnt signed up for an adless host yet, but i exchanged the banner ad for pop-up for now.
-I think it needs something at the top (besides the links). Maybe ill try to create an image or logo that would be appropriate there. what do you think?

Also the 'Introduction' section may or may not go. Depends on if I can think of something worthwile to say there, right now it doesnt say a whole lot, or is that enough? It seemed a little better to have at least a 'hi' there rather than jumping right into my education.

Lastly, how does my resume look? Anything I should add or take out?

Thank you everyone for your help and opinions.

-Rob

woah! Grey as the background? It's a No No.

Here's suggestion, design the page like a real resume. Find a white paper background texture, and input everything like you would on a real resume on real paper.

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What exactly are you going for? Is this a joke? (This is what conventional, which most employers I have met are, would say) HOWEVER, for the more open minded and given to the humorous side of life, like me I would become interested still, if you are serious.....I ask again, what are you trying to achieve exactly?

I would suggest you to go to monster.com and create a resume there, because your resume lacks a lot of things...

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well, I havnt been able to acces TWF for about 4 days but I redid my homepage.

here it is http://www.dork.com/seros/

hope you like it

Hope that was good for a laugh.

Seriously though, here is my most recent resume. http://robjohnson.virtualave.net/resume3/resume3.htm

if I didnt get this one right i give up on web design and ill stick to hacking code.

Thanks again for all the replies.

It's more like a resume, but you took away too much of the graphics. I would at least make a graphic for your name. That would be cool. Also- the site scrolls for me on 800x600 res.

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Is this signiture short enough?

Hmmm... it's hard to decide what sghould be done with this. There isn't really enough content to justify creating a site with several pages and navigation and everything, but not having that navigation system doesn't seem right. I would separate education, skills, and work experience into three separate pages, and create a navigation system to reflect that. You can always use freebie page sets (try http://www.freegraphics.com under "Web Graphics > Families Theme Sets"

Now, you need to take that background, cut it into one small (about 100 pixels square) tile and set it as your background image in the body tag.

Now about your resume, I think you need to read up on how to write one. Is "Robbie" your real given name? If your real name is Robert or something like that, use it. Sounds more adult and professional.

Usually on a resume the second thing after your name is contact information. Your objective needs work (I'm having problems with that too).

Now, after that most people put either their skills or work experience - whichever you think will be most likely to make an employer want to hire you. Under your work experience, you need to put in more detail about exactly what you did at those jobs. Use action words (verbs). Make it sound really impressive even if it's not.

Take your references off of there and just put "available upon request". Those people may not want their personal information on the internet.