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- felizfeliz0
you can't see everything in one glance - which a row of thumbnails would help you to do, eg:
in 2-3 seconds you can see all of their portfolio without scrolling/clicking. you get an instant impression of their work, type of work, quality etc. and if it's something you're interested in you can easily go into further details on specific projects - of your choice, no forced order via a big scrolling blog layout.
however this is your 'first impression':
you can't even see 1 piece of work in full!
it's worth reading up on the psychology of first impressions:
http://www.google.com/search?cli…I don't want to be too harsh but that's an awful first impression and doesn't tell me much about you at all except that you didn't think about first impressions and thusly don't care too much.
clearly you do care as it looks like you've put your soul into your work.
with your site the first piece of work sets the impression, after that my 'impression' is pushed into an argument trying to decide what it is you do with each subsequent image i'm forced to see. I can't simply choose specific projects to view in detail. I have to just continuously scroll down. in a word - it's a pain in the ass.
so go for a good overview of all your work.
it's like a trailer for a movie. gets people interested. tells them if it's an action film/ chick flick... etc... no one would randomly go to see movies without having seen anything(poster/trailer) or read a summary etc. but that's what you are forcing people to do with your site layout.
you could have an overview at the top of the site, with all the work as you have it now below if you're happy with the big scrolling concept.
or you don't like that idea, at least make sure the first piece of work isn't cropped out of view on a browser.
- just realised rgb6 have more work now and you have to scroll. but the point remains...felizfeliz
- Thanks! You make some excellent points. I was thinking of doing thumbnails but kind of rushed it. I'm gonna work on that.ech0
- ..that!ech0