oops... here's the link: http://www.one-waymedia.com ;c)

I like it. Very unusual and clean. Good work. The huge type is a bit hard to read, but I can live with it.

Thanks for your input Ivan. :c) Are you talking about the headings or the content type in general?

I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. -Jesus Christ

I really like it. The subtle rollovers are nice. The big font just makes it look a little generic, I think.

I like it, it is very clean :)

I'm using I.E 6 on XP SP2 and on a laptop. At first, I couldn't find the rollovers everyone was talking about. But after a bit of random mouse movements, I found them. I would say darken the type a little on the buttons, or the buttons themselves. (It may just be the brightness of my screen though.)

But yeah, I too like it. Very clean and easy to use. Nice work.

I like the idea behind the logo, and the simplicity of the site, but I do feel the huge type does make it a little 'juvenile' when it seems that you are aiming at it being clean and precise, kinda contradicts itself...

...maybe a better use of the negative space with smaller type could enhance it?

Is all your work, and projected work going to be soley for religious activities? It might make future clients who aren't religious based feel isolated. As I did feel like it was based more for your passion of religion rather than design.

Also another thing that did nag me a little was the fact that when I clicked on your subsections for your portfolio, I thought that nothing had happened, it was only when I realized that I had to scroll down to see the work that I did. After a while I got a little frustrated with having to continually scroll to see the work (which is very impressive, like the logo design a lot), maybe using the negative space created by my suggestion above would give you room to use preview boxes for your work (not pop ups either!!!!) within the screen so no scrolling is needed??

Thanks for your input guys. I really appreciate it. Everyone seems to agree that the text is too big. lol I'm going to decrease the size and maybe change the font all together. (Veranda?)

Abdul - thanks for the info about the navigation buttons... I was curious about that very thing. I'll get on it.

Mitch - Wow! Thank you for taking the time to give me your feedback. You have very good points. As for the religous aspect no, not all my work is to be only for religous activities. I have had lots of work in that area because of my connections there (and "word of mouth" between pastors and ministry leaders and Christan business men/women.) Are those the only people I'll work for? No! lol. I might "tone down" the religous refrences but if someone doesn't want to hire me because of my belief then I don't want to work for them anyway.

The scrolling in the portfolio is a great point (and honestly it was getting old for me too!) I think that reducing the type size and taking out the paragraph at the top of the page I might eliminate the frustration.

Again, that you all for your input. If there's anything else (good or bad) let me know!

OK! I've made some adjustments... what do you guys think now?

(still working on navigation)

No probs Greg.

I have to 100% agree that if someone isn't gonna employ you for your beliefs then I can see your point totally.

I just think that some may feel that your time and effort will lay with religion and the design will come second, as we all know clients like to think they are the be all and end all of our lives and are our only customers (we know that isn't 100% true!!!) but we need to make them feel that as part of our service.

After all customer relations is a very important part of this job.

Will have a look at your site again when I have a spare minute.

Good work mate.

The first thing I noticed is more of a personal annoyance than anything. You started off talking about yourself in third person and then went straight into first. My suggestion is nix the "(that's me!)" from the second sentence and reword it somehow to include your name and freelance status without jumping out of your body.

The second thing I noticed - and I almost didn't notice it - was your navigation links at the bottom. If I hadn't squinted, I never wouldn't seen it. Granted, my contacts aren't in, but most of us aren't 20/20 anyway and you've gotta make up for this. Maybe take your "over" state and set it as the default and then have the new over state have glowy text or change the color to your green or purple there. I dunno.

On your About page, I enjoy the layout. However, I'd like to see you write more under each section. It seems to be a waste of a h1 tag when you've only written a sentence under each heading, you know what I mean? Also, in doing this, you could help kill two birds with one stone. You'd solve the aforementioned "too religious" bit mentioned by Mitch by diluting the content while simultaneously providing more information about yourself. This is a very personal portfolio, so it's good to let your audience know that you're not a robot.

I can't say I really see anything wrong with your gallery section. It's old-school and there's nothing wrong with that. Except you do have some blank boxes for "filler" on some categories where you don't have an even four works. That may be some CMS generated template thing, but it's still there. The not-so-keen user may think there's an image there that hasn't loaded yet.

The contact page is a contact page.

Overall, very nice and cleen. I do really dig the logo. Kudos on that. Your site kind of reminds me of Garrett Dimon's personal site, only smaller and more Aqua-y. Good job on it!

Personally, this type of site needs the bigger type. After looking at both versions, I would go back to the original. BUT... It needs more negative space to balance the type. Why drop shadow so close if you are going to have a clean airy site?

middle of the road approach is not working for me. my quick 2 cents.

Footnote. Aside from that, after reviewing the content, when I look at "who you are", i want to know how it relates to design, not your spiritual identity. You don't go to Walmart, Target, or Macy's to go to church any more than you need to know the religion of someone to hire a web designer.

This slant strikes a need to have a blog, which is personal, and a professional site, which has the basics of design and the services you offer.

Hello Everyone! Thank you for all the comments!

I've read all your suggestions, ideas, complaints, etcetera. I truly appreciate all your feeedback especially the criticism. I'm going to be working on a version 2.2 making some of the suggested changes (buttons, copy and maybe some navagation tweaks.) I'll post here (and update the screenshot) when I've completed it.

Again, thank you all vey much!

The thumbnails in every gallery except for photography don't show up except onMouseOver. I am runnign Tiger with Safari as my browser, but that seems to work fine for my designs. Another thing, was the "god bless". Please don't take this wrong way. I am not by any means the kind of person that wants "under-god" out of the pledge. I was just thinking about it for a while. I have actually come accross something similar in my time as a web designer and photographer. Keeping your personal life personal. I'm not saying that you shouldn't be proud of who you are, and what you believe, but unless you want to only taylor to christian busniess men and women, you might want to concider removing this, and just having your signature. I just think that someone going over your work might try to prejudge you based on your beliefs. What they think may make them want to take their business elsewhere. Your religion is important to you, however, being a businessman, I would assume your profit is as well. Just give it some thought. Please don't think I'm degrading you. I'm not. Just one artist to another.
I do really like how clean and minimalistic your site is. I love that sort of modern feel. It's not coarse and cluttered like a lot of sites today. I really enjoy seeing work like this.

Brandon P. Turner