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- fiftythree
My new site is offically launched. Nohing fancy, but check it out, and email me your thoughts.
- jox0
you got some really nice stuff in your portfolio, but IMHO your design on the page reminds a little bit of DIK
- mbr0
I wouldn't worry about the DIK reference as it's a pretty basic/generic design, but it's fine.
What I would suggest is that when you click on Portfolio that you:
1. Have a thumbnail of the project. I clicked a bunch of times and assumed you hadn't completed it before realizing you had to click 'View work'.
You've got nice work, you should show it off on the home page.
2. I'd stick the numbers (for work) in a table, or whatever to keep them from moving each time the text changes.
As a side note, I rarely ever read about the work, but always look. So I'd rather see an image, with an 'Info' button.
- fiftythree0
Thanks all for the input; it has been helpful.
- CAJTBr0
agree with the previous posts. your portfolio's great.
objective faults:
you've forgotten to define background colour as white on the iframe pages.
your pixel fonts are aliased.
personal opinion:
i think you've got two sites mixed up together.
you have your portfolio.
you have this collaborative site of film reviews, short stories, links and photoshop stuff.
if you're going for corp clients, the latter is going to take away from your portfolio.
and vice versa, the portfolio doesn't fit in amongst the other stuff.
another thing is i think the nav in the iframes is really clunky:
i click on portfolio in the left nav, then there's nothing to indicate that i'm in there. you could have the title 'portfolio' in the top of the iframe (rather than +News, which is just confusing but that's another issue), or you could highlight the 'portfolio' in the left nav when you're in that section (pretty easy to keep consistent with javascript).
having the links to things above the text that introduces them doesn't seem to make sense (this is an extension of the other guy's point about 'view work'). maybe you could make use of that redundant area in the right of the iframe somehow? or just have these links under their intro text?
in every iframe page you repeat two things: your email address; a link back to the news section. why not just include these in the links on the left?
two other minor points. i think you should darken down those background dots. i think you should use something other than a + to indicate a link back to something: a plus sign implies opening up something extra, rather than closing it down and moving back.
one final point - the name! on an average page of the site, you can see the words fiftythreefeet six times (inc 53'), but i can't find any explanation of what it means?
but i'll reiterate that i think your portfolio's great, and that you should give it a site of its own.