New Portfolio Site
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- enkayes
Hey everyone! I just launched my portfolio site, let me know what you think!
- cannonball19780
1) Your typefaces are WAY too big.
2) Dedicate some screen real estate to an image of your project. I see a picture of something on a screen behind a block of text and a faced panel and uh... I can't see anything... loosing... interest...
- cannonball19780
I like your photo collage by the way (from what I can see between the interface)
- enkayes0
Thanks for the feedback. I appreciate it :)
- dragonfruit0
would be good to see the projects "as is" not in a photo or whatever
- ********0
um... drop the parasite project - photos don't do you any good, at all... and you wrote this?
"I love the taste of really good tea, taking walks through the city with my beautiful girlfriend, typography, listening to great music, taking pictures, trying new food, circuit-bending, making lame jokes, and other extremely nerdy things."
Sorry - what here says I would want to hire you?
- He has a hot girlfriend?ukit
- hmmm... is she part of the T&C's?********
- ukit0
I'd question whether this full-screen approach (and congrats for pulling it off w/ Javascript) is the best for displaying web-based work. It seems a little silly to be sitting at my computer looking at photographs of a website, themselves displayed on another website screen, shot at an angle.
Putting that aside though, the type and grid could use more thought and hierarchy. If you're interested (and if you are hoping to land a design job, you should be), here are a couple good articles I stumbled across recently on basic type/grid concepts.
http://informationarchitects.jp/…
http://www.retinart.net/typograp…
- SoulFly0
pretty cool.
But I believe it was really a turn-off point when you click flicker to find out there are only 2 pictures there which are nothing new than what's in the site. I wouldn't add communities icons there just to fill-up space and someone reviewing the site would feel like you waste their time.
- Shaker0
I think the "t" and "." in "about." look insanely tightly kerned. and it makes me claustrophobic. but besides that it's clever to make a website within a powerbook photo but it may/may not decrease the value/quality of the design being displayed...
- ukit0
He owns a Macbook and an iPhone with a crowded desktop, he just wanted to show that he's passed the first hurdle;)
- enkayes0
Thanks for the responses.
I decided to take the pictures of the websites on my laptop because I thought it was an interesting approach. Each web project has a link in the information box to the site in question for a browser view.
- ukit0
Yeah, I can totally see what you are aiming for. I just think it can end up not being the best option if the photography is less than perfect.
The whole thing has a very informal feel, like "oh hai, I just plunked my laptop down on a table and took some pictures."
- enkayes0
Do you have any suggestions for improvement?
- ukit0
Maybe not open with the laptop pic. Crop some of the pics so that the background is less obvious. Just try to make the pics look better in general.
Like utopian who is another user here seemed to make it work pretty well:
Also, have you ever played around with Javascript-based text replacement like Cufon? I think that would help a lot, right now the live text looks out of place compared with the large type on the left.
- enkayes0
I've never heard of Cufon. I'll have to check it out.
Thanks :)
I'm a little thrown back and a little relieved. I've sent this site to a bunch of successful freelancers and one very successful agency and they all had nothing but nice things to say about it.
It's good to hear some constructive criticism. :)
- hilchev0
I like it a lot!
- liveforever0
when u rollover "work" the dot moves slightly
apart from that, the overall function/interactivity of the site is pretty smooth
- thatboyneave0
I’m looking at this on a laptop and most of the photos are obscured by the navigation and captions. Makes it quite hard to make out what’s going on in your work, when really it should have centre stage.
Of course if all your prospective employers have 27" iMacs you may not have a problem ;-)
- I would make the photos of your work smaller and better cropped, and not run them behind the text.thatboyneave
- Chimp0
I wouldn't use a lap top, far too obvious. Plus this is only a tool you use to produce your design.
If you are going to use full screen photography make sure they are of better quality.
Over all I get the feeling that too much is concentrated on your gadgets and there is not enough focus on your creativity. After all any fool can go out and buy a macbook and iphone.
- LukeO0
I like it, it's a bit mad but it's got personality. You can refine the copy a little more, but keep with the style I say.
- Ravdyk0
Your photo's of you laptop could at least be better quality