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- Baz
Hey guys,
Just a quick post to get some feedback on my new portfolio website. Ive tried to keep it nice and simple.
Thanks NT for your time.
- 23kon0
firstly, a lot of people will probably dislike the popups, why didnt you incorporate the content onto the main page?
a shit load of work has obviously gone into the 3d work that you've done and i dont think that a fwe smallish jpegs shows this. i think you could show off the work more, show more images, wireframes (the build process).
if i was coming to your site to hire you to do 3d animation, then id want to be seeing the animations.
why not put together a showreel video showing clips of all your work and flyarounds of models like the phone etc.
- Dancer0
Nothing that offensive, I have nothing to really say about it.
Except:
Why popups for every piece of work?
the "spinningbox.co.uk" in the top left is irrelevent
why are there scroll bars when the is nothing to scroll.
- blastofv0
quick feedback: the 'graphic design' part of how you're presenting yourself doesn't seem to fit. maybe it will once you get some work samples in there, but I say go with your 3d/animation work as the core of who you are – graphic design seems like an afterthought here.
OK, now I'll go and look at the work. navigation and functionality are simple and therefor good.
- ********0
reminds me of nobbys nuts
- Baz0
Thanks guys.
I will take that into consideration.
Anymore for anymore?
- Nairn0
*stabs pop-ups in eyes.
i like the bold use of colour in your sections - very nice. it even distracts me from your having the navigation after your content, which I think awkward.
your typography is dire though (coming from someone equally non-typo-anal :) - I'd get rid of your pixel text url and 'navigation' - they look awful and are redundant.
your main text would benefit from a lighter weight and a larger size - i'd also consider lighter/non-existant link underlining.
your spinning box logo jars - it's only half a box - what's that all about?
it'd be nice if you set the bgcolor of each frame away from white and as close to the background image colour as possible - having it flash white before loading is a bit crappy.
For the next iteration of your site, i hope you get a handle on CSS - your site is simple and clean enough to benefit from this, so make use of it.
Good work, man!
x
- Baz0
Thanks Nairn.
I have a background colour on main page that is black for a start. Then a colour which is colour picked in the td of where the main colour grad image sits.
What browser are you using so i can try and sort this problem out?
Cheers
- canuck0
Yeah, I would do what the other guy said, focus on the 3d stuff. Make some case studies, that go into more detail. Get rid of the pop-up lark. I'm not a huge fan of the colours myself.
- ********0
you have nice work... put it in the site, pop ups are not just annoying when there is no where to go in them, but also distances you from the work... different if it was a location amp or something that you didn't want to cloud tour portfolio... but you've got it the other way around.
- Nairn0
I'm running FF2.0 on WinXp.
You're flashing white because you have a TD declaration (around line 71) with a bgcolor set to white.
- Nairn0
Also, there's a prominent seam that's quite blatant on my widescreen monitor here. Don't know whether it's an effect you're going for.
- Baz0
Thanks guys, I will sort the popups out as its the main thing you have all commented on.
Ive changed the font to a thinner version and put it in lower case.
Ive also got rid of some of the scrolling and the pixel fonts.
Thanks Nairn for the code line. Got rid of that too now.
Cheers
- radar0
the gradient looks really choppy & nasty. I agree about the pop-ups too, you are using the whole screen why not display work in there, maybe below in the black area.
And don't make someone load a pop-up to tell them the work is coming soon.