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Special thanks to Darius (Funkage) for scripting help with flash headers.
- baseline_shift0
I like your logo.
Site is nice and clean. I'd take the logos off the monitors.
- designbot0
nice site and work.
I would lose those Mac Monitors you are currently displaying your work in though, all they do is distract from it. Also, you need to adjust the kerning in your nav type. Otherwise I think it's dope.
- zerocool0
Does apple sponsor you?
- dropdown0
Have the web links open in a new window. I left your site, and never went back.
- OSFA0
I agree with the monitors comment... seem a little too much
- robotron3k0
overall nice. you'll find if you reduce the type groupings under the 6 icons and give some space it will be even more readable.
- Wolfboy0
I'd change the links on the web folio page so they open up in a new tab/window - you might lose people with it navigating away from your site.
I agree with Baseline on the logos on monitors front. I'd think about a different layout for them as I feel the monitors are too prominent and you want all eyes on the prize (logos).
Nice work though and I generally like the site.
- I am a slow typist - both my points can be found above!Wolfboy
- creez0
ye monitors and links should always be target="_blank"
- lvl_130
i'm not sure i understand your landing page. what is with the big unclickable icons? i think these should either have some sort of actionable event, or just be eliminated (or tucked away in the about section). i would put your work page as your landing page.
oh yeah, and lose the monitors. a bit of tightening up of everything should also be considered.
- << I'm glad you noticed the non-clickable home page icons too! :)MondoMorphic
- :)lvl_13
- MondoMorphic0
Very nice! My only thought is that those icons and taglines on the Home page (e.g., Creating Ad Agency Results) seem very interactive or clickable...like navigation. The fact that they're not though makes me feel like something is wrong or broken.
- designbot0
One other thing.....I think the homepage looks really good, but you may change that copy (under the icons) to be actual text instead of graphics. It will certainly help with SEO (if you care) and I think you could get it to look nearly identical with live text.
- twokids0
sorry to be a wet blanket, but I don't like several things:
too much space at the top....what's that about? doesn't add anything
overreliance on clever copy..."Design is as Design Does"? who cares? I want to see the work. Plus all those carefully written and laid out sections on the home page? are just there for show....oh i see! the navigation is at the top but your design is making me read all this marketing fluff at the bottom...
The work is difficult to see...the samples I did see took too long to get going...long opening animations...are you selling Motion Design?
yeah and the logos on the monitors should go...
sorry it just seems like a bunch of marketing b.s. with difficult to use navigation
- meffid0
copy is cheesy, but in a good way. I like it.
the monitors are crap, lose them.
that design give site is fresh, I like it everytime I see it.
"...and executes with pixel perfect resolution" doesn't make any sense at all. (about page)
simple, does the job, shows the work nice and easy. hope it does the job and brings in more work for you.
- d_rek0
Overall excellent folio!
I agree with losing the monitors - especially for the identity work. It's more appropriate for the web/interactive work but i'd rather see the identities in the full.
And yeah, the kerning in the nav is a little tight. However, this doesn't really bother me.
I also agree with Mondo about the icons seeming clickable on the homepage... not sure how to solve this. Maybe drop them or just go with Wolfboy's suggestion to put your work (maybe it's a selection of work that is landed on) on the landing page?
- meffid0
@ twokids,
I do like it outlines the work on the front page "they" want to do, not many sites / portfolio's do that I've seen lately... albiet, it is cheesey, but I like cheese. (just not on my cock)
- umm. ok. thanks for that image. what kind of cheese do you put on your cock in australia?twokids
- billl0
some of the shadobox/lightbox samples are throwing up scrollbars for me ff3 pc -- maybe make 'em bigger, too -- yep nice logo
- akrokdesign0
"they" never checked. if you go thru the menu when you click "about" the whole page moves.
- billl0
i'd make the body copy bigger too
- alemundo0
Muniz... from Elkins?
- no, Muniz from Cy-Fairirrelevant
- huh, i knew a chris muniz that went to elkins.. nice site!alemundo
- thanksirrelevant