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- tank020
new fouty?
- typete0
sorry:
70.47.145.173/www/portfolio.php
does this work
- chossy0
can I be first please?..
- 23kon0
simple and effective i guess.
homepage is alright, you might want to add some html text to the homepage so Mr Google indexes you better. (also page desicription, meta tags, page title too - make them more descriptive)
not too keen on the simpleness of the "about us" section - its a bit to sparse.
portfolio section is prob the best on the site, what happens when you add more projects though? are you just limiting it to always show just 10 pieces of work?
Client List page - a bit sparse, are those links meant to go somewhere?
News - again, are you just limiting to 4 articles?
Contact - I'd try get a better picture of your building, thats if you even want to show it. In that pic on my laptop screen it looks like a washed out photo from the 70s of some Russian housing block :S
- typete0
Thats great cheers, totaly agree.
Will have an archive button for news and portfolio in the future and may add something to the bottom left corner of the sparse pages to bring it to life.
- Nairn0
NT doesn't like IP number URLs (URIs?), here's your page..
Your site's a bit too spartan and the name rubs me up the wrong way. You should look at your second tier nav - in fact, nav overall is flimsy - your javascript is interfering with my mouse pointer - I don't know that half the things on there are links, especially as you've removed any underlines or hints.
Consistency and sepll ckeching - is it Projects or Portfolio? It's not Hienz.
Clients page doesn't do anything?
I'd have your project details up front - or at least, see nav point above.
I'm struggling to see the logic in splitting out Portfolio, Clients and News - are you trying to look bigger than you really are? It's not too intuitive and will ultimately require more admining - now that they're there, they need to be used and kept fresh - do you really have 4 new news stories each week or so? If you do - do you have the time to edit copy and upload?
Your work is pretty decent and some of the site's details are professional - landing page graphic, for instance. I just don't like the weak web2.0 bevelled edges, consumer mint colouring and drop shadow.. I suspect you can do better.
Good luck!
(sorry if this all sounds harsh - it's well meant. I'm hungover, have just thrown up and am in dire need of tea)
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- ukit0
I like it. Nice and clean, and the portfolio section does a good job of showcasing your work, which is quite good. The main problem is the About Us page which looks like it was thrown together in about ten minutes. There are some grammatical mistakes in there, and the hierarchy of the text just doesn't really make sense. I would rethink this page as the first page your clients see is probably the most important. Maybe find a way to juxtapose some of your work with the message or something? And as Nairn said, make sure the CSS for your links is set to cursor:pointer to people know it's a link.
- edd-e0
I like it. Nice and clean...
ukit
(Oct 13 07, 09:38)yes nice and clean... i didnt click thru i just looked at the front page. as i was thinking of fouty...
- ********0
its kinda web 2.0 looking...i think the work itself deserves a better shell than those fonts and pepto bismol colors...
- Complexfruit0
Nice and clean.
In the portfolio section I would swap the location of the "Projects" with the "Details". I find it easier to get back to the list of work if the "Projects" link was on the same side as the thumbnails.
And you might think about changing the hightlight border color on the thumnails from white to the magenta or dark blue color.
Now this is just a personal preference, but I kind of want the details to just be there under the image, without the extra click to get that info.
hope that helps :)
- anayafx0
too plain for my liking, add some graphical elements, even subdued ones, watermarks maybe? Something to break the page up....
You got the framework up, Now give it some poilish!