My new website
Hey guys,
Been working on this for the last couple of evenings.
I'm going freelance next week (last day this Friday) and I want my site up before then.
Its not intending to be much, a bit about who I am and what jHouse does, and a Lightbox porftolio when you click the thumbnails.
What do you guys think?
If nato wants me to do this in black and white I WILL scream.
:)
Cheers
Jack
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To add:
I'm not sure if I can make it so that the thumbnails fade in and out with different work, or if the user will have to refresh the page. Failing that, I could just include more thumbnails..
J
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"Send Us a Message" should
"Send Us a Message" should probably be "Send Me a Message". Otherwise pretty good! Good luck in the Freelance realm, I see you're jumping in with both feet.
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Natobasso
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"Powerpoint is not a design application"
Yea.
My plan is to make myself look like 2 or 3 people, not just one. But is that a good idea or not?
Thanks Nate
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No sense in lying. You are a
No sense in trying to seem larger than you are. It's actually a good selling point to smaller companies that you have low overhead (ie. one employee; you). You are a sole proprietor. If you have a team, say that. If you employ staff, say that. Otherwise, I wouldn't say it.
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Natobasso
dirtandrust.com
"Powerpoint is not a design application"
I agree with Nato on this.
I agree with Nato on this. If you are just one person, play that up. It has just as much chance of working to your advantage as saying you are two or three people, and it is the truth. If you don't play it up, at least don't insinuate (sp?) that you are larger than just you.
Bluuue
If you change it to "Send Me a Message", you're going to probably want to make everything consistent (ie. "Who am I?").
I agree with Nato, if it's only you, don't pretend it's more. If/when you decide to expand to a few more people, change it then.
That being said, how are you coding this? Will the blue bar extend across the page? Will there be more lines of portfolio, or sections with different types of work? Are you adding any more pages? What will happen when you click on the top-right promo?
Also, the giant @ sign looks strange to me, and you've got a typo under the portfolio header. Is there a reason the bird looks in-set?
It looks pretty good, but I imagine it will change a bit when actually coded. I really hope you don't use images for all of your text.
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Thanks
Blue bar will go all the way across. The typo is actually covered up by an in front layer..thanks for that. The flash at the top will simply take them to their email to contact me.
LOL! Images? No I will use text..
Cheers
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Very nice design, very
Very nice design, very clean. Although I don't see a clear navigation. I don't know how that's going to work with the rest of the site.
I agree with everyone else with the who am I better then Who are we.
No nav needed
This is it. Simple as.
I can't help but screw up my face when I everyone says "Just say you're one person"
Man, I don't know now...
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Oh and the bird!
The idea is that the bird is cut out of the top banner revealing the blue beneath ;)
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Few Comments
I'm not sure if the "cut out" bird is working as well as the depth you created with the other shadowed elements. Maybe it just needs a more powerful shadow because I didn't get thats what you were trying to do at first.
Also, I think the logo is a bit big. It controls the eye and so does the bird. Is there a way to get to your message and work quicker and not be so overwhelmed by the logo visually?
Fresh Portfolio ---> http://www.davidpcrawford.com
Yea good point
Thanks, I'll make the cut seem deeper in that bird.
I spent ages with the sizing and hierarchy, but I'll give it another bash!
Cheers
J
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Great clean design..... good
Great clean design..... good luck :)
I like the design. The blue
I like the design. The blue bar is a bit thick though. I'd try to make that thinner. Images floating at the bottom are kind of awkward.
Have you even checked the original?
They're not floating, they're meant to be like a photo album stuck in with 2 corners.
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sorry, i don't have all day
sorry, i don't have all day to check your original. Nor did you link to one. But, I won't comment on your crap anymore if all you have is an attitude.
Seeing the original or not does not change that you have floaters.
Uhm what?
That was ABSOLUTELY fair. I didn't have an attitude at all!? But thanks for your mature comments. The original is always under the critique image?
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Hmmm...I really shouldn't
Hmmm...I really shouldn't have put the word 'even' in to my response. Funny how one word can make you look like a total twat.
Sorry mate.
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no worries, been guilty of
no worries, been guilty of that myself! :)
Looks clean
not too crazy about the "NEW" labels on new work. Maybe
"Latest Projects"? "NEW" seems to me like "NEW! IMPROVED!" on bottles of dishwashing soap. Instead of refreshing, you can pull off an ongoing slideshow in CSS and Java, although you won't be able to go forward or back (to my knowledge)
Overall I like the balance of white space and overall layout, but yeah, the @ sign has to go.
Leaky Penny
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Believe it or not, I can actually draw. - Jean Michel Basquiat
Man, that logo just kicks
Man, that logo just smacks you in the face right off the bat. I would consider making it smaller. That would also allow you to shrink the overall size of the header, which I think is a bit large also.
Ok cheers
I often make elements too large. Dunno why.
Cheers
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it's something that happens
it's something that happens a lot more earlier in your career. it took me a while to get away from big being the way to pt something at the top of hierarchy. most of the time it won't need to be as big as your first inclination is. it's often better to be a bit more subtle and use other methods of establishing heirarchy (color, white space, placement, etc) instead of just size.
OK
Thanks, I'll bear that in mind.
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I'd like...
to see this in black and white.
Leaky Penny
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“If you do what you love to do, then you won’t do it in an average way.”
~ Angela Bassett
Uhm
Are you kidding?
LOL. If not I'll do a B&W Version JUST for you.
:)
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This is very true in my
This is very true in my experience. For some reason, when you first start out, you have a tendency to make everything too large and bold.
One bit of advice I received that helped me a bit with this was to do your design and then knock all the elements down to about 60-75% of their original size and see how it strikes you. A lot of times you will see that it has a much more pleasant feel.
I like the look in general, just a little bold for me in the present state.
Ok cheers for that tip
Ok cheers for that tip mate!
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i began to be cured of
i began to be cured of this... "disease..." when i had an art director who would look at my display time all the time and say, "that looks really horsey, drop that point size by 3-4 points" on a regular basis. now when i see big type i always think of the word "horsey" and back it off.
honestly, especially with type, if it's too big, it can quickly label you as unrefined with your typography. it's amazing how much more i notice it now.