What players are saying:

• Haziq Mir Is it for your portfolio/website? Clean look.
• Dhiren Adesara looks nice !
• Kartik Mahant  Looking solid, muted contrast love that.
• Samuel Couto If you tell me that this syncs with some kind of calendar API you rock! Design is sober, I like it. Not quite understanding why there is so many squares by month - does each one refer to 3/4 days in a month?
• Michael Castro This looks so clean. Well done. Im also curious about the meaning of the squares per month :)
• Creative Goat Very nice looking!
• Shaun Moynihan Very intriguing. It looks to be visualizing your projects/deliverables each month. If I was to guess...grey would mean unavailable while red/green would mean available/busy. Nice work man!
• Underbelly (via Anthony Lagoon) I want to see more…
• Alexandre Naud @Shaun Moynihan I hope for @Josh Hemsley that grey is for holidays. ;D
• Rich McNabb @Josh Hemsley Are you able to give a breakdown of how the 8 units a month work?
• Alex Parker ⇢ ☁ one month is 160 hours if you work 40 hours a week. So one square is a 20 hour block? So you've got 100 hours available towards the second half of september?
• Josh Hemsley Awesome thanks everyone. Without a doubt, I'm taking a risk by edging really close to the line of "confusing" on this one. I'd love to say it makes more sense it full context but it may not, haha. Just trying a few different angles and this I thought was a bit interesting. Before I explain, let me say I've always been skeptical of availability times on designers/developers site's but I wanted to give something a test run to see how it plays out. Mainly trying to weed out a few of those "need it by tomorrow" inquires, but as well keep myself accountable to schedule out my availability and not overbook. So here we go (and I know things typically shouldn't need this kind of explanation)... "Technically" 2 units represent about a week, but I really didn't want that to be obvious. The goal of the chart was to show momentum and generalized time spans. Basically trying to create a spread of beginning/middle/end of month periods without defining exacts. Using other counts like a simple 4 unit, would make it too exact and having less units caused the overlap from month to month not clear enough. Using the 8 count made it easy on my end to calculate and somewhat represent what I was hoping for. In terms of the colors, red (not available), green (available), gray (open, convince me ). These are identified right below the chart. I'd love to hear suggestions, as this is probably going to be an interesting little feature I play with quite a bit when I get my new site up. But in reality it may not even last that long depending on how it goes over. ------ *also should note that this is not an exact representation of my current availability haha
• David Silva Consider yellow for open. Grey may be better kept for a possible/future vacation or time off meaning that you won't be available even to answer emails or calls?
• Alex Parker ⇢ ☁ @Josh Hemsley I'd say keep your system that you have going in your head, but maybe not show the separation of units in the visualization of it. That would give it more of a feel of continuity through the month, where they wouldn't even be left guessing what is what, but just rely on saying things like "it looks like you have time towards the end of october, could you fit me in there?" and then you can internally use your system to determine how much that time equals (because you know it's 3 units, but they dont) and whether or not you can fit their project in. Just my thoughts on the matter
• Josh Hemsley @David Silva What would red mean then? To me it seems to all fall into one "unavailable" category, whether it's that I'm booked, taking time off or even plan to take time off. The grays days on my end are days I'd probably rather not fill in, as they will typically fall after longer project periods, but can be if needed. Maybe you're saying gray appears as a definite unavailable?