Constructive Criticism
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- moamoa0
use this and you can´t fail. almost ok.
- klipklap0
GORADIO, i think you need to start viewing designs in trends. spend time looking at sites like: bestwebgallery.com, styleboost.com and some of the other portals listed here. It'll help grow your eye for design. But really, the site you did was better then my first stuff. just keep at it.
- kelpie0
goradio some of the guys on here who are just saying start again are folk worth listening too and though they seem harsh don't take it that way, they're giving you a short snap judgment based on years of experience and not simply slating you to look cool. Just ignore the other guys, I find a lot of the people on here who laugh at peoples work postings are the kind of vacuous 20 year old shit heads I'd dearly love to see get torn apart by rasko while their "spindly girlfriends" watched in slack jawed hipster horror.
anyway, I digress; try this as an exercise if you want - take the advice to look at the one page folios site, there's some perfect stuff to learn from there. Then try redesigning in just black and white, use only one typeface through out and just lay the work and blog posts out with black rectangles of colour, don't use ANY photoshop filters or style effects and work on the PURE layout till the way everything sits together regardless of 'style', (whatever that concept really means) and by the harmony of the elements involved alone, starts to look good. then repost (just do it in photoshop and post up mock ups, put in fake work or just grey boxes to fill it out).
Another thing; your work should be primarily a visual thing, enlarge the images, use more of them, tell the story that way with minimal textual info. The blogs are your words and thoughts and its appropriate to use that kind of format for them, not so for the work. Two different layout formats for the two different types of content will go a long way to sorting out the site.
and aye, ditch the logo; sorry mate but its a bit shit
g'luck
- Good man/lady. Most of these cats can only exist in there little passive aggressive spheres of existence. Grow up kiddies, he asked for help not to be raked over the coals.orangecrunch
- haha, he is a lady.Jnr_Madison
- kelpie is indeed the sexiest manlady i have ever met.********
- you should see me in glittery eye make up. I'd fuck myself, were I that way inclinedkelpie
- why rasko?kuzzAAAAM
- see "EC: Build - Pritt" threadkelpie
- o right. Heh, that was like me in that dude's T-shirt thread LOL!!!kuzzAAAAM
- and right on cue...kuzzAAAAM
- orangecrunch0
Hey man dont mind the dicks I'm sure we are all at different levels. I would try and make your site more timeless with it's use of type. Stick to the basics you don't want a really loud site thats going to distract from your work. Keep it simple. Let your work speak for itself. Hope this helps.
- ********0
"just lay the work and blog posts out with black rectangles of colour"
*head explodes
- moamoa0
I agree with kelpie.. check the onepagefolios.
and also the indxr and indexhibit link
and you can do some great clean stuff like:
- Jnr_Madison0
I take it all back, I FUCKING LOVE IT.
- meffid0
I've got a rule to never trust a dude with two first names or someone with their eyes too close together.
You've got 3 first names and I'm all kinds of crazy fucking confused.
- meffid0
more your thing here Rybo?
- Jnr_Madison0
Ahhhhh he's from Dumfries... all makes sense.
- jeveritt0
i wasnt trying to be an arse about it,
but a good place to start when designing a website would be to look at some websites for inspiration
- meffid0
I've got better things to do, like take a piss all over myself. It seems more constructive and less frustrating.
- dyspl0
I would stay away from the blog aspect.
you want ot display your work? blog are more efficient when it comes to share your though.
- GORADIO0
- hey thanks!Jnr_Madison
- I, for one, can't get enough********
- copy that one rybo.meffid
- love the rollerover image. genius.GORADIO
- PSYKHO0
Some more ideas for you Goradio:
http://www.webcreme.com/
http://www.thebestdesigns.com/Layout structure:
http://www.960.gs/ <-- Good site for building sites!As the others said, try and get a CMS like system for your portfolio then style the pages to your liking and then add your work. I know you want to be a web designer but just sit back and start drawing some ideas down on paper and then open up Photoshop and made a design there that you like then with HTML/CSS you can build a nice site!
Good luck!
- d_rek0
Criticisms:
1) The color pallette you've chosen and the heirarchy of the site puts more importance on the webpage than the actual work itself. I almost didn't know where to start looking for work when I first landed on the page.
2) I don't see any reason why all your work can't be on one page, with much larger images. The way you're treating the work makes it feel unimportant to me.
3) the blog / posts really aren't all that interesting at this point, they just clutter up the screen. Those are what really should be on a separate page.
4) Do you have more work to show? 5 pieces is a little light even if they were absolute dynamite knock-out pieces.... they're good, but your portfolio doesn't feel substantial.
5) Sometimes less is more - in terms of aesthetic, you've got a good start, just keep refining what you have.
- meffid0
*whistles while pissing*
- grunttt0
sweet.
fancy.
moses.
- GORADIO0
Yeah man, I used Textpattern. I almost always start on paper, move to photoshop and then build it within the CMS. Thanks for the help.
I don't want to design websites much, to be honest - I'm not a big fan of the developing. It brings money in, though...
- Jnr_Madison0
GORADIO is ripping my holding page...LOL