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- DutchBoy0
woah Rand is starting a fire here!
- MLVR0
unfortunately Rand is right :-(
- MLVR0
Ok me and Rand in team blue vs. nick and whomore? ;-)
- DutchBoy0
no.
i mean good clients judge you on what you make, so they also judge you on how you present it.
unless you have already a huge name in the biz and an army of accountmanagers getting the new gigs for ya. those companies have usually shitty sites indeed, but great clients!
- ********0
he's wrong.
you think designers are the only ones who care (but not really) and you're right... they don't really care about your grid, your icons, or any of the little things that give us (designers) hard ons...
but what does matter is the over-all impact that a site makes on them. which is why i think that the whole 1-page scrollie idea is great... because it doesn't take an intelligent user for granted. it takes no brains to use a vertical scrollbar... and no brains to look at the screen with all these big examples of your work. it creates a powerful impact.
or something
- MLVR0
for us cynical idiots the clients don't care at all. they don't reallyy care about anything that we do, if their kids could use a computer they would gladly let them do our job.
- heavyarms0
I have been liking one page sites a lot more lately. Thinking that may be one of the best ways to present work.
The ones I have really liked lately are :
Pioneer 10, dislogic and droppod.Lets keep this going. I like to think about what are the best ways to present a portfolio. One reason it's hard is because everyone has different tastes.
- ********0
sorry for the cynical response. I only half believe it myself.
is it practical put a really large number of pieces (hundreds) in a one page design, or do you need to use an interface to sort them and make them "findable"?
- ********0
if you're showing that many pieces you should be able to sort through them.... (by media, by date, by client, etc)
- ********0
i wouldnt really want more than 20 pieces per page though.... would be overwhelming
- Duane0
Thanks for the input and kind words. I still really like werkburo nick (even though you don't like my double rules :P).
MLVR, I know, I am pushing the contrast on the text. I took a chance though for the sake of the palette. I've heard that from others too. Interestingly, whether you read the text or not it's done some amazing things for me via search engines. I get some hits off strange word combinations now (and will take whatever I can get).
Time permitting, I hope to have add another page in the next month or so.
- ********0
there's also the issue of whether or not there's a benefit to seeing something alone, or surrounded by other pieces which influences how you see it
- ********0
good point.
i dont think it would make much sense to have a bunch of case studies on the same page for example.
but i think a 1-pager is a nice way to give somebody, at a glance, a good feel for your work.
- tparsons0
The good clients aren't dumb.
- ********0
that is true as well!
- MLVR0
I reckon there are good and bad one-pagers. One common problem with them though is that they don't leave room for your own branding.
- ********0
what is more important as a designer... your brand or your work?
designers shouldnt even have brands.
- MLVR0
nick: lol... of course they should..
- tparsons0
The designer is the BRAND. People come to you for results. If they can't see the results they won't come to you.
- Soler0
hey nick.. I just redid my portfolio website this weekend. I catually had a couple similar things in mind: easy nav, big work, somple, brandless.
what do you think?
http://www.CD4B.com