My portfolio
Piotr (38 points) | Wed, 2009-11-18 15:37
Hello everyone,
I wanted to get some opinions on my portfolio as I am using it to help get myself some work.
The image above is just the screenshot. Please visit: www.inthought.ca
Let me know what you think, the good the bad, any of your thoughts.
This can be about the anything from the layout, colours, and expeially samples which should or should not stay.
I need some input from other people in the field, friends and family don't really understand what I do to begin with, so they are limited in their input.
Thanks!
Good, simple, straightforward. I like it. The upper left text needs to be fixed though, lines are overlapping and I don't know if it's my pc, but scrolling up and down is slooooooooow on the home page, but good on the others.
Leaky Penny
www.leakypenny.com
We artists are indestructible, even in a prison cell or concentration camp I would be almighty in my own world of art. Even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell. - Pablo Picasso
It's nice, clean, organised and unfussy, I like it.
The textures are enough to make it quite homely.
I'm not sure I like how the semi-serif font in the inThought logo sits with the rest of the clean type though. If it was me I'd make it all clean.
In the header sub paragraph ..."I am a graphic and web designer based in Kingston, Ontario." I think you can drop 'I am a graphic and web designer' as you have said that right above it.
Novera Homes logo repeats three times when clicking prev/next in Lightbox.
Also in your main top menu it says 'Feature Projects' I think this should be 'Featured...' to match your banner.
Hope that helps. Good work.
living on dreams and custard creams.
To make an already great site better.
From the top down:
The menu gets a little lost - which is an issue as your contact details are there. Look at drawing more attention to it (or adding your contact details in more places).
Your menu lists 'feature projects' but the page image on the homepage says 'featured projects'. I'd change the menu to 'featured...'
The mixed text-sizes in the into para are too close to each other and can look like a rendering bug - either refine the text/sizing or drop it. The copy is good enough to stand alone without it.
The 'featured project' flash on the main image gets a little lost - I'd look at making it more prominent and in-keeping with the feel of the rest of the site.
Some of your project image crops feel a little haphazard and don't to the projects themselves justice - think about the key visual selling point of the project and crop that. Try cropping some of them at angles to break things up a little.
The titles on the 'featured projects' page could stand to be a little larger - perhaps the size of those on your about page - this would bring a little more visual clarity to where one project stops and the next starts.
As I say, these suggestions are just intented to improve an already good thing.
You call yourself a creative thinker yet it doesn't look that creative to me.
Touché, but when you look at his work some of those pices are creative. There's only so much creativity that can go into a website before usability and good navigation suffer. I've been there, done that.
Leaky Penny
www.leakypenny.com
We artists are indestructible, even in a prison cell or concentration camp I would be almighty in my own world of art. Even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell. - Pablo Picasso
I know. I mean, it aint bad, but if you want to improve that, try adding some creativity to the overal layout. I know it's hard for things that serve a great usability tho.
I Like it..
Nice, Simple and Clean..
I feel it needs a footer to cap it off..
Something to show that you are at the bottom..
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Good call on the footer +1
Leaky Penny
www.leakypenny.com
We artists are indestructible, even in a prison cell or concentration camp I would be almighty in my own world of art. Even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell. - Pablo Picasso
Yeah it all looks wonderful. Couple things...
"This project was completed while employed at Creative Unity".
Hmmm....
"Creative Ninja"?
Hmmm....
Too many "I"s on the bio page. "I did this, I did that" etc...
Thanks for all the input guys. Really gives me a few things to tweak and think about.
As for the disclaimer of "project was completed..." well, i HAVE to have something on all the pieces I created at my day job, it was.. requested.. that I have something saying that the says work was completed at CU and not on a freelance basis. I have yet to find a way to really shorten that.
thanks everyone!
I understand why the disclaimer is on there (and so will everyone else, btw). A few pieces from your ojt experience is to be expected - but this comes off as CU's portfolio - not yours.
Please drop the "Creative Ninja" thing. That's worse than "Mac guru".