₦airaland Forum

Ikechukwu183:
I am really wondering what you were trying to achieve by cloning Nairaland. Because if you were doing so by coding with your head without any assistance, I would give you thumbs up. But, if you really wanted to replicate Nairaland, then it's thumbs down. Why? It's because you simply could have copied the source code of nairaland and get the exact 'carbon-copy'.

Ohh, I did it all by myself actually, I got tired at some point, after several hours writing the scrapper with puppeteer, I couldn't deploy it on heroku, after some days, I rewrite the code with cheerio, and it's even faster. Having clones of popular websites on ones portfolio nowadays is one of the things employers looks for. You are talking about copying Html and css source code from the inspector or a web tools, isn't it?
A clone should work like a real site actually, that updates itself. The clone is not static, you can check back later to see .

My first clone would be the popular Nairaland clone.

A fullstack app, frontend on Netlify, backend on heroku.

[url]Nairaland-clone.netlify.app[/url]


Judge my new portfolio design, tell me it's lapses from your point of view.
[url]Www.snotat.com[/url]

Stephen0mozzy , glaber, julybaba, cocoduck, silento

After realizing I needed UI skills, I took some course, I think I know the basics, tell me what you feel about my portfolio redesigned.

I also built a Nairaland clone, though I'm still working on it, it's like 30% backend, built with node( express), front end is pure react, I scrapped data from the Nairaland frontpage and some other pages like the front pages content, I hope they won't block it but the section/topic pages are from newsapi api's.

Judge my portfolio, snotat.com

Nairaland clone, nairaland-clone.netlify.app.

Thanks

Stephen0mozzy:
Lol... Maybe your Calling is more of Backend development. You will not divert into every new thing just because you're not so strong there.... You can learn the basics of it if you're sure your coding skills are already good to get you $1,000 per month job..trust yourself... You will know how to make that much when you know the worth of what you know


...just like that guy who said he'll not even do a button for 10k....no be pride.. He knows the worth of his skills and he knows the right market to approach.

Regards.

Thanks, I'm on it already, seems it's not that complex. Thanks

Stephen0mozzy:
Lol... Maybe your Calling is more of Backend development. You will not divert into every new thing just because you're not so strong there.... You can learn the basics of it if you're sure your coding skills are already good to get you $1,000 per month job..trust yourself... You will know how to make that much when you know the worth of what you know


...just like that guy who said he'll not even do a button for 10k....no be pride.. He knows the worth of his skills and he knows the right market to approach.

Regards.

Thanks, I'm on it already, I'm not seeing more complexities. Thanks.

Stephen0mozzy:
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I really admire your cool-headedness in accepting the reviews most of which are harsh but HONEST.

Your confidence level is reallllly high though.. (Beat my own hands down lol - I'm a graphics designer) however this site is not a good representation of the skillset you itemized.

I'll advise you take up some UI design courses and improve your graphics design knowledge too.. Or better still just focus on being a full stack and outsource the design to a UIUX person. The better your skills, the more likely you can attract higher jobs.... 10k for a website os an insult to the title of a Full Stack Developer

Talking about the hype, the truth about tech is that if you're REALLY GOOOD, you'll never go broke - forget saturated market - na werey and novice dey saturated... The reall gurus are few.. Aspire to be a guru

Thanks, seem I have to divert to this UI/UX of a thing. Thanks.

julybaba:
First of all, the "website" you "built" is called Portfolio website and not Freelance website. Please take note.

I will rate your portfolio website 2/10. Why?
1. You didn't stick with a colour scheme.
2. It is not responsive.
3. SEO rating is poor
4. Graphics are poorly designed etc.

My advice.

1. Use a tested & flexible CMS like WordPress, you'll save yourself a lot of stress. Search for a nice "Portfolio Theme" and populate with your project details.

You also mentioned that you are not making a reasonable income from your knowledge in web & app development.
Well, you need to learn web/app content marketing. Having knowledge is not enough, you need to understand how to convert your knowledge to profit.

Don't target Nigeria market please.

how would you rate this starnt.com.ng

[quote author=cocoduck poster=113613241]You need to take graphic design course, your design is not good. It is so 2005[/quote]Thanks, graphic design skill is not reflected in the website, I don't like posting people's project, I feel they are private.

julybaba:
First of all, the "website" you "built" is called Portfolio website and not Freelance website. Please take note.

I will rate your portfolio website 2/10. Why?
1. You didn't stick with a colour scheme.
2. It is not responsive.
3. SEO rating is poor
4. Graphics are poorly designed etc.

My advice.

1. Use a tested & flexible CMS like WordPress, you'll save yourself a lot of stress. Search for a nice "Portfolio Theme" and populate with your project details.

You also mentioned that you are not making a reasonable income from your knowledge in web & app development.
Well, you need to learn web/app content marketing. Having knowledge is not enough, you need to understand how to convert your knowledge to profit.

Don't target Nigeria market please.

Good, thanks

JoyousFurnitire:
Get someone as your UI/UX designer or improve you design skill and apply for jobs. I believe you will get one if you up your design game.

Which one be 10K Oga

Thanks

islamics:
Op My own is this: check out uplabs for design inspiration. Read about "Material Design" and how it applies to your case.
Lots of thing dey off. Imagine having your contact displayed in an editext abi na textbox and then clicking go, what happened to making the contact clickable.
This one wey Oga tensa just laugh, make you know say something dey.

Okay, thanks.

adelnehis:
Drop your github

do you have a job for me?

adelnehis:
Guyyy
The site bad gan
You're saying android and iOS apps I dont understand
Python cant build mobile apps o

I use react native to build android apps, with Mac, react native can be used to build iOS , with windows and some packages and setup, you can build both android and iOS apps with react native.

You can use python package kivy to build mobile apps

tensazangetsu20:

what do you have to say sir?

silento:
u really try but far from perfect , work onbuse of margin and padding

color scheme , positioning

u will get there soonest

Thanks boss

mrfizy:
You build websites, android apps and iOS app, genius.

Thanks.

I built a simple freelance and deployed some weeks ago, I'm a Full Stack Web Developer of the MERN stack and a graphic designer, I can also build and deploy simple mobile apps(Android and IOS)

www.snotat.com