New portfolio site

http://7nvr89.zzl.org/

Cue Twiggy complaining about browser compatibility.
Anyway, bit of a WIP of my portfolio site. I want to make the thumbnails a bit better, move to a better server to increase speed and allow the mail function to work, and finally buy a domain.

Tell me what you think however!

Looks really nice! What I'd do is change the gaps between the speech bubbles if you're scrolling down since it seems sorta too large when you want to get to the information quicker, idk I get the point of the space, but I think it could work easier w/o the big space and just scrolling down. As well as this, possibly capitalise Skype? People might make impressions of it if it isn't completely formal imo. Either way, really professional and jealous of it tbh.

Justify the teeext. :D

That is a sexy site for a sexy man.

Doesn't work on IE. How are potential clients going to take you seriously now?

It won't load for me either on Firefox :(

What Nick is doing on IE, however, is a mystery.

I could nit pick harder, but the white/transparent gradient at the bottom of the page has a solid edge and doesn't match the top which has a soft edge.

@Andy If it's not loading in Firefox press ctrl + F5, to hard refresh. Or Command+Shift+R on a mac. It should load though, since I coded it on FF.

@Nick As for the whole IE thing, well, I don't know what I can do to fix it since I'm no expert with jquery.


@Lightning For the About part right? I'll do that thanks!


@Mom Seems fine to me. Could be my monitor... But screenshot?

moments.;bt75985 said:

I could nit pick harder, but the white/transparent gradient at the bottom of the page has a solid edge and doesn't match the top which has a soft edge.

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This. I noticed the same thing.

But other than that it's one of the sexiest portfolio sites I've seen for a long time.

It's only noticeable when you scroll over some of the darker images, but you can see it pretty clearly in the screenshot.

Link.

I was joking. As if I'd ever use IE.

On your intro, maybe it would be better to take out "i do some work such as" and just leave it as "I do" or if you want to keep it that long then something like "I work in the areas of..." You don't want people to get the impression you're less than serious with words like "some."

Clicked the link.
Scrolled down to about me.
Saw your about me picture.
Exited out.

:\ I really don't like it, in it's entirety. Conceptually, not aesthetically.

In short, for a portfolio website, I firmly think that images should take up the most space. Which by the way, are having difficulty loading at the moment. I also think that I should see a large feeling of your work at a glance, before I'm interesting in seeing them all in large formats.

While I know you're probably trying to show off your lovely graphic and web design skills, as a portfolio this should be about your work, which tells about you. I know you have links on the side, but scrolling down through them, I don't want to know about you or what work you do until I SEE the work first. You should really have them in different categories, as if I want your photography I don't want to be bothered to see your graphic design first.

Anyways, in what I personally think should be the first things in portfolio sites are
1. Give me all the work I want to see now
2. Give me all the work I want to see now and fast
3. THEN let me see the bigger pictures and grab some contact info

The name is cute. I'll never really remember it. Your portfolio, your name should be the biggest, because your name needs to be remembered.

I think it's great! I think the only thing I don't like about it is that Dark Knight graphic that you have; I dont think it's as strong as your other work. Everything else is fantastic!! :333

Looking pretty awesome :) I think the Page is a bit too tall, though. Maybe the horizontal space could be put into good use, if you're willing to sacrifice a bit of image width.