Decide which template to use

[risamaki]

Done Criteria: Decide on a template to use and incorporate it into my code

What I want in a portfolio:

• A cool landing page with some animation
• A place to have an About me + technical skills sections - don't need photos
• A place to talk about Employment History -- can be similar to the About Me since I only have one previous work place
• An area I can talk about projects - preferably some animation that moves the boxes -- not too keen on having the projects open up to specific boxes but I suppose writing more is good too
• navigation bar is nice but not necessary

Final Contenders:

• https://bootstrapious.com/p/designer-bootstrap-3-portfolio-template
• https://bootstrapious.com/p/agency-portfolio-theme - really good but the landing page doesn't have as much impact as I would like, also do not like the navigation bar
• https://bootstrapious.com/p/screen-onepage-scroll-theme - don't like the individual page scrolling

https://dcrazed.com/free-responsive-html5-css3-templates/

• Bodo - really good for a Portoflio to website -- a bit too much though
• Snow - (http://blog.themearmada.com/demos/snow/) - not really good for my purpose
• Mobirise (https://mobirise.com/bootstrap-template/one-page.html) -- too choppy

https://html5up.net/

• Spectral (https://html5up.net/spectral) - Too dark for my usual style
• Twenty (https://html5up.net/twenty)
• Highlights (https://html5up.net/highlights) - too simple
• Big Picture (https://html5up.net/big-picture)

[risamaki]

Bootstrapious

https://bootstrapious.com/p/designer-bootstrap-3-portfolio-template
https://bootstrapious.com/p/landing-page-theme (I like the animations but the style is a bit different)
https://bootstrapious.com/p/agency-portfolio-theme
https://bootstrapious.com/p/screen-onepage-scroll-theme

Other

• most of these are too basic compared to the others
  • https://startbootstrap.com/template-overviews/stylish-
  • portfolio/https://startbootstrap.com/template-categories/landing-pages/ -

[risamaki]

Medium

-- all are PSD files, not easy to convert at all

• https://medium.com/free-psd-mockups/psd-repo-weekly-freebies-87-63889f71dcf1
• https://medium.com/@psdrepo/photoshop-weekly-resources-33-62b0ad4a9d1d
• https://medium.com/design-razzi/cremia-free-portfolio-html-template-338af4b23dc8
• https://medium.com/design-razzi/akaposs-vintage-free-html5-website-template-d5489e533632
• https://medium.com/themexpert-journal/50-free-psd-website-templates-for-corporate-education-lms-blog-portfolio-and-other-awesome-52aa9a945267

Mostly paid:

• https://medium.com/@BalharaInfotech/30-best-html5-css3-personal-portfolio-web-design-templates-b687f96b031

[risamaki]

Food for thought: https://medium.com/@MisteRussell/to-template-or-not-to-template-f6d8f6687f75

[risamaki]

Not True Bootstrap Style

http://www.wix.com/website-template/view/html/1995?originUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wix.com%2Fwebsite%2Ftemplates%2Fhtml%2Fall%2F1&bookName=create-master-new&galleryDocIndex=2&category=all&metaSiteId=

[risamaki]

One Page Love

https://onepagelove.com/namari
https://onepagelove.com/nova (iffy - very colorful)
https://onepagelove.com/resto

Ones I don't like too much:
https://onepagelove.com/crystal
https://onepagelove.com/meetup
https://onepagelove.com/touche
https://onepagelove.com/verum
https://onepagelove.com/skokov-profit
https://onepagelove.com/restaurant-template
https://onepagelove.com/boxify

[risamaki]

Best Paid Options:
https://colorlib.com/wp/html5-portfolio-website-templates/

[risamaki]

https://dcrazed.com/free-responsive-html5-css3-templates/

Okay ones

• Mountain King
• Mobirise
• Mobirise 2

Ones that won't work

• Brandy
• Bent - nice but probably too much for my purpose - also too much moving around
• Future Imperfect - also nice but a bit different setup than what I want, good if you wanna do blog style stuff
• Box - Files are not accessible
• Triangle - Looks really awesome, but not that customizable
• Brandy - super nice but theres just too much going on
• Space Agency - too specific to space stuff
• Sublime - don't really like that theres no where to just write stuff, also don't need video stuff
• Yebo - Has too many animations and stuff that I don't need, too complicated

[risamaki]

https://html5up.net/

• Spectral (https://html5up.net/spectral)

• Twenty (https://html5up.net/twenty)

• Highlights (https://html5up.net/highlights)

• Big Picture (https://html5up.net/big-picture)

• Stellar (https://html5up.net/stellar)

• Photon (https://html5up.net/photon)

• Directive (https://html5up.net/directive)

• Dimension (https://html5up.net/dimension)

• Solid State (https://html5up.net/solid-state)

[risamaki]

CHOOSEN TEMPLATE: https://html5up.net/twenty

[risamaki]

http://keenthemes.com/