Ask HN: Feedback on a personal site for a coder.

To me the color scheme seems a bit ugly, but others seem to like the site so it might just be me. What I find ugly is the green on gray. Changing either the green or the gray would make the site look better in my opinion.

Clickable link:<p><a href="http://thingsaaronmade.com/" rel="nofollow">http://thingsaaronmade.com/</a>

I like the design and I give you kudos for trying out an unusual page layout (navigation bar being on the bottom rather than top). I think it works! Although I will say that it feels more like a designer's website than a programmer's; while design aesthetics are important to me as a programmer, it is generally the content or clever personal projects that give it the icing...<p>I'm one to speak though, my own website is rather boring! Good job on your site.

Cool. I personally dislike it when freelancers don't _spell out_ what you're looking for: eg contract work, 6 month full time work, etc. And note your availability - today, this month, this quarter, etc.<p>And ideally a previous project that I can see online, and what the budget &#38; time frame was.

The open source menu on the bottom has a project not mentioned up top, which is slightly odd, and it just links to the front page of GitHub, which is odd.<p>You should either mention it everywhere, or take it off that menu :-)

Looking at your source code in Firefox, you have a couple missing &#62; in your code:<p><pre><code> &#60;h3 </code></pre> and<p><pre><code> &#60;/body</code></pre>

Nice design. You might want to revert more conventional design if you are trying to sell your skills/services to companies.

Love the new layout, but was disappointed when I couldn't comment; Is this on purpose, al3x.net style?

As someone who might hire, there should be a "hire me" link. Which explains what consulting you do.

It would be cool if top hat and icebox had demos

Your TopHat project looks very interesting