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Comment by vaksel | Hacker News Reader

i don't think anyone here minds self promotion, so here is your site:

http://www.loginaut.com

Congratulations, but—please don't a) use flash websites for a software dev firm and b) use a purchased template like that one. If you're going to use a purchased template, at least go for something better.

A little honest feedback: your site was painfully slow to load (8+ seconds?).

If you weren't a HN'er I never would have stuck around and let it load.

It took me nearly a minute on a 10Mbit connection. So yah, I agree with the above poster. Congratulations though!

Thanks for the feedback on the site design, everyone! It's far from finished, that was another reason I didn't want to link to it, but I should have been more clear about that :)

With all the actual project work I've been doing, the site become almost an afterthought... Which is not a good idea, I know. I will definitely rethink the whole Flash concept and make it a lot faster. Thanks!

My advice is to dump the site and replace it with a clean blog. If your as busy as you need to be to survive, you'll never have time to maintain a custom site like that. Don't let your site show off your skills, let your reference-able portfolio do that job.

wow that sound when the site loaded was awful.

I agree. The sound actually made the fillings in my teeth hurt. A sensation of physical pain when your site loads is REALLY something you do not want.

Before I whitelisted it, it was just a grey screen. You might want to put something in a <noscript> tag. I like how Stack Overflow deals with that, for example.

70 megabit and 30 seconds and counting...

Also the lack of explanation and lorem ipsum text throughout doesn't inspire confidence, sorry.

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