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New Portfolio Site! 7474 Responses
Last post: 1 year, 2 months ago | Thread started: Jan 6, 12, 9:46 a.m.
- Chimp
Hi there, good effort!
There are too many greys going there and not enough contrast. I would limit the colour pallet.
Logo placement doesn't feel right.
I like seeing all your work thumbnails how
Do you need a search?
Work and About get a bit lost at the top.
Don't like those strange tab arrow things you have. I feel they get in the way of the work.
Don't like the way the brown drop down works on the thumbnails, the pop up doesn't work the drop down appears.
Not really into the work in a pop up (something I need to change on my site too!)
Titles of work examples feels a bit too far away from the thumbnail.Over all I feel it works but still needs a fair amount of work.
- Dog-earJan 6, 12, 10:50 a.m. – Permalink
- crillix
Would be nice if you included some information about your work. A little insight on why you did what you did or what was asked of you, gives a little context.
Personally I don't care for web sites being shown on a macbook, its over done and leaves a feeling that the macbook makes your web site look better. That and why am on a web site looking at web site on a computer... I get what you are trying to do but I think there are more engaging ways to do it.
My two cents, and take it for what it is coming from a guy to lazy to update his own portfolio =P
- Dog-earJan 6, 12, 10:51 a.m. – Permalink
- CygnusZero4
Work/About really need to stand out more.
I'm ok with how the work is being presented. It works, which is good enough. I didn't have any usability problems, so it's fine.
I think that the About page should be simplified. People are only coming to your site to see your work. That's all that matters. Everything else is not necessary, so info about your inspiration and lifestyle isn't needed and is just cluttering the page up. Noone really cares about that stuff, they just want to see your work.
When people first create portfolio sites they feel this need to put all this info up there, and really not a single thing is important to anyone outside of your contact info and the quality of your work. Stuff like blogs and all that, noone really cares. Just focus on the work, limit the amount of copy as much as possible, keep it very simple.
- Dog-earJan 6, 12, 10:58 a.m. – Permalink
- bjladams
designing for designers is not easy - but your site has the kinds of stuff that clients like seeing.
only 3 things that irk me are
1) the logo in the upper right is overlapping the 'worlds best ch' text
2) the empty box in the lower right, makes it look unfinished.
3) news & blog is a bit repetitive- especially since there's nothing in either- Dog-earJan 6, 12, 10:58 a.m. – Permalink
- CygnusZero4
If you spend time looking at some of the more well known designers and creative directors, many of them have nothing up there except a bunch of kick ass work and an email address. To me that makes them look like they aren't messing around. All the fat has been trimmed away and you're left with a very impressive portfolio and an email address.
But when you look at less experienced designer sites, they have paragraphs of info about them, links to a bunch of other sites, blogs, and a bunch of stuff that isn't really that important.Just keep it streamlined. If you want to link out to your FB or LinkedIn pages if someone really wants to learn more, that's fine, but personally I would just keep a couple lines about yourself, and trim away anything else that's not serving a real purpose.
- Dog-earJan 6, 12, 11:18 a.m. – Permalink
- air_yourself
fact of the matter is........
you'd get it (GOOD and PROPER)- Dog-earJan 6, 12, 11:36 a.m. – Permalink
- sisu
The work is done, don't fiddle with it. You've presented it nicely. Just tighten up the site itself and get some work! I think your About content is perfect and good for someone in your position. It gives employers or clients an insight into you - you appear approachable, kind and open, which is good.
- Dog-earJan 6, 12, 1:26 p.m. – Permalink
- Fax_Benson
Looks pretty good. I'd say that a few of the thumbnails could be cropped better. The last 4 or 5 don't stand out as much as the rest - important if you want people to look through the whole folio.
Have you thought about a white / alternative background? That wood effect looks a bit template-ish.
- Dog-earJan 8, 12, 1 p.m. – Permalink
- Fax_Benson
- Dog-earJan 8, 12, 2:46 p.m. – Permalink
