Portfolio layout advice
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- liveforever0
if ur gona do it like that u might as well signup for the krop one
- gramme0
Krop it
- disagree massivelykelpie
- surely Krop should only ever be an add on?kelpie
- depends. It's an add-on for me, but his layout isn't too far off the Krop setup.gramme
- My own website is drastically different than any of Krop's options.gramme
- your tacit claim is that the layout is without worth then? for me the association to krop makes it fundamentaly lazykelpie
- Yeah I guess that's what I'm saying. I agree with you. Krop shouldn't be one's primary website.gramme
- doctor0
I dig it, though there's room for improvement.
The mixed font weights in the logo don't work very well together. It has a cramped and kind of "amateur playing with photoshop" feel to it.
What will be featured in the center square? Showing more than one piece of work might be a good idea, in case the user can't identify with the one you've chosen or just doesn't like it. You risk that he/she will just leave your site, rather than explore your other pieces.
Maybe there's a little too much vertical space at the top, but it's hard to tell until you put a real image on the page.
- liveforever0
as much as i say build your own site as opposed to using something like krop. the 2 designs look so similar both with jquery - just saying if u r going to use a design like this then it looks too much like krop.
cnt be the only one who thinks so either
- dajaniel0
Agree with liveforever - I don't like the Krop portfolio sites - they look pretty cheap, and if someone sent me their portfolio on krop I'd just think they're lazy.
- gramme0
Agree with liveforever and dajaniel. I'm not suggesting Krop as an ideal solution, I was merely agreeing with them that your layout is similar to some of the Krop options.
I use Krop as a portfolio add-on, an alternative way of looking @ my work. But my primary site is still metagramme.com—it's even linked on my Krop page. Krop just hits a unique audience, for me it's mainly CDs at agencies that would (hopefully) be looking for someone to outsource design work.
- Digging your site gramme... supernice.adamrobertson
- o thx :)gramme
- kelpie0
you're basically saying though, that you think a designer's website should have more bells and whistles (which I disagree with in many ways), and I'd say that was missing the point. For me the 'just get a krop' argument is a tacit put down which suggests you would rather he abandoned his wish to make it super simple and focused on teh content.
Not saying that particular layout is wonderful or anything, but I personally don't see the krop thing too much (I also absolutely hate the way krop does that javascript image reveal thing and organises the gal;leries into those sections it does)
and yeah, fuck you, my own site's on indexhibit, hahah ;)
- erikjonsson0
avant garde for logo face and then a serif and alot of other weights?
- Yeah, that's what I was thinking. It all looks to similar, the mark needs some more development.Andrew_D
- gramme0
I'm not saying by any stretch of the imagination that a designer's own site should be full of bells and whistles. Look @ my site for crying out loud, there's almost no interface.
My point is that the layout looks similar to Krop, and if he maintains this direction he might as well just get a Krop page for all his trouble. It's entirely within the realm of possibilities to create something more unique but that is still very minimal and allows the work to drive the site. By all means, continue with the goal of simplicity and content over style. That being said, minimalism is a style unto itself that speaks volumes... at some point I think the argument becomes purely semantic.
Ken ye?
- Even changing up the background could distinguish it from Krop. Throw some illo's in there or something.Andrew_D