OK, fine, there is some truth to it. But most of the first responses I got were not constructive criticism. Constructive criticism would have been something along the lines of: "I am glad that you've put so much effort trying to learn to code at your age. However, I think you've been pointed in somewhat wrong direction. It's a common mistake made by web-developers to assume that a website is better if it has more colors and animations. This is not true. When people see animations on a site, most of the people are simply annoyed by that. As for colors and gradients, they are not good either, because what looks nice and perfectly legible on your device may be completely unlegible on some other screen. Colors should always be low saturation (that means either very dark or very bright) and it's important that the contrast between the text and the background is high, but not too high. If you don't have a feeling of what's a good contrast, it's better not to use colors. In your art classes, you may have learnt that, for example, purple and yellow or green and red are the highest possible color contrast. That doesn't apply here. In fact, many people would argue that the best way to design a website is to just use some Sans Serif font (since they are considered easy to read on LCDs) and some very-light-gray background and a very-dark-gray text color with little to no images and no animations or gradients whatsoever. Also, it's important that the viewport is set correctly so that a website is easy to read on mobile devices. Since you are using a three-column layout, you will probably need to change it somewhat to make it usable on mobile devices, either in JavaScript or using only advanced CSS. It's not too hard to do, but it's quite different from the programming tasks you've probably done before. As for your PacMan game, it's a good programming excercise, however, you've chosen a wrong platform. SVG is certainly not a good platform for making games (better use something like Unity, if you've heard of it), and you probably shouldn't use it on your homepage either if you can help it. Browsers, even today, usually render SVGs much worse than PNGs. As a junior programmer, you have probably often been told it's better to code simple images into your program than to use some external tool to edit them. Well, see, that doesn't apply here. Programming language skills and algorithmic skills are important, but it's just as important to be informed about the available tools and frameworks for the things you want to make. Good luck with that website and with your future projects! By the way, if you are going to get serious about web-development, don't use free hosting. While free software can indeed be of superior quality, free hosting isn't. I am having trouble accessing your website from (where?) and you will probably run into trouble updating it.". Or do you think I am missing something?
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