Small portfolio
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- meek
Just finished a small portfolio documenting some of my work produced throughout this year.
Gimme some views!
- smoke0
nice.
probably wouldn't have had a popup for each section. how did you get that link effect (scribbly line through), is a css?
- meek0
Thanks.
There should only be a pop-up for the canvas section, and then each piece of work should open in an iframe within that pop-up.
The line effect is CSS yes...
a:visited {
text-decoration: line-through;
}
- oculasm0
nice one sam! only comment.. is if the news bit is going to scroll, then maybe it should have custom scrollbars that match the colours on your site.
- meek0
Hey Iman, thanks :-)
Thats a good point. Im in classic mode on xp at the moment and had over looked that issue.
It will only show the last two entries in the database...but yeah, at some point it will need to scroll.
Thanks for the email ;-)
- leBeat0
i like it!
was a little bit confused by CANVAS, thought it was something with paintings ...
but hey, i’m just a stupid kraut, don’t ask me, haha!:--)
- meek0
Thanks leBeat.
Canvas was just a word I settled on a while back and it kind of stuck...
...maybe it shouldn't have :o
- quik0
the contact form scrolls right and down. -- yuk
otherwise seems to work well
- monNom0
I'm REALLY not a fan of the trend of displaying all your portfolio work in a series of boring links (with maybe a hover background if you're feeling kicky)... it just doesn't have visual appeal... it looks like 'my first website' --circa 1995
It may say "cutting edge" to those on the cusp of interactive design, but to me, and probably a lot of people who would be reviewing your work to hire you, it looks 'un-designed'... like you just threw it together and couldn't be bothered with presentation.
As a result, I closed the page before even looking at your work... not a good reaction.
- kutsie0
I don't nessisarily agree with everything monNom says, but he does bring up good points.
I'm going to hit you from a little bit of usability. You have 4 sections. First off. I want to click on the names of the sections. (I'm not even readin the white yet, just first glance)
So I try and go straight to portfolio, but I don't see it, but I do see canvas, which indicates you're more of an art person, not as much design. I click on the title, but it's not clickable. After a second I figure you can click on the text, which isn't really intuitive. But I click on it to find that you have design. That's a little confusing. That page is in a pop up when it seems you have a decent amount of room to use on the parent page. Also the design of the pop up is not consistant with the design of the original page. So I finish with the portfolio and close. Then I go to 'about', but there is nothing to click. Is that a mistake, I'm a little confused. (just playing a user)
Then I go to news and find again, I can click on the text, not the title, and items pop up underneath the section, which again is inconsistant.
...okay, you get the idea. I'm sorry if that was a little tough, but I've been spending lots of time doing this kind of stuff for my job, so I hope you look at it as good critiquing and not insulting ^_^
From a design p.o.v. I think it's okay, the close tracked text on the light background is a little hard to read, maybe darken the bg a little, but that's it.
hope it help, sorry if there is spelling or grammer mistakes in my post.
- unknown0
why use a popup at all..
- meek0
Thanks for your comments :-) Much appreciated.
I used a pop-up as I didn't want to have to loose focus from the main screen....ie. user's having press a 'go back' button/link.
The site was also designed to work as best it could within the constraints of 800x600...not my native resolution of 1280x1024...which of course would have allowed for everything to have been on the same page.
...however, i'm currently working on several versions for different screen resolutions. Check back soon and it may only have pop-ups for 800x600 users.