Personal Website

I liked the simplicity.
You could give life for it.
Make the text moving very slow as a text banner on background like an horizontal matrix desktop.
make it bright and move only the line on mouse over to people read the text.
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don't like the grey frame at about/contact, could be white background.

Just my short thoughts (they don't cover the whole functionality and design)

- Colours look very blunt and boring and sad. I'd say, go for a theme colour(s), rather then RGB.
- I don't really like the navigation of your pages. Photo galleries have that, not pages.
- I don't really like the navigation inside the enlargement of portfolio. I couldn't find the arrow to navigate at first (but, me being tired, it might be me).
- Enlargements should be a bit bigger maybe. It's about the content.
- Try to do a better job at spacing the characters of the background. Just look at 'our' next to portfolio. That spacing is dreadful.
- Try to type something relevant lol. If you zoom out I read about Arabian horses :P

Having said all that, I do really like the simple touch of your site. With portfolio websites, I think layouts should be subtle, simple and clean, not asking for tooo much attention. It's about the content, not the website. You've done a good job but it needs that last step to succeed imo.

i really like your approach. i did something like this for my site several years ago. but it was all flash based and didnt capitalise on the simplicity as nicely as yours does.

you do have a typo in the background text though. its "a lot" not "allot"

im going to disagree with qwerty. i think if you start moving stuff. your simplicity will be compromised (not to mention mobile device compatibility) and the strongest part of your design will just become trite.

did you consider mobile devices? when i first saw the site, i assumed it was flash and wouldnt work on the iphone. i was pleasantly surprised that it kind of did - background image didnt display. but content did

i agree with jack that the spacing of the background text is kinda iffy. i see that you were going for a compressed look. and that part i like. but you could do some hand kerning here and there to flush it out.

additionally. i think all the type on the main page could be smaller. about 30% possibly. and you might try no spaces. i would also forget the RGB thing. i get why you chose it. but i think its too obvious a choice. my suggestion would be to try no spaces. hand kern where you need to and make all the text gray and the 3 selections white.

Nice and Simple! But could be better!

So, if it was my site, what changes I would like to do on it...
[1] I understand that you made all these sentences to bring out your menus, "about", "portfolio" & "contact". Fine! but can you arrange the sentences that way so the 'menus' can come in center of the page.

[2] The menu hover effect didn't attract me at all, you may use a small Fade in/ Fade out effect by JQuery plugin to give it some dynamism. Here is an example http://www.hv-designs.co.uk/tutorials/jquery/all.html

[3] Colors: RGB for menus & typical Black for background, it seems to me very Windows Paint color palette. Why not some experiments like.... like....

[4] Now the High Slide effect for pages is ok, but you can customize them a bit like, shadowing the background as in LightBox. For Example go to http://www.versionsapp.com/ and click on SCREENSHOTs. You can also try other modal window effects, to make the structure more customizable.

Thanks for the great critiques guys! I'll post my revisions some time next week! :)

*golf clap*

You've got a winner. You know, if you incorporated the words facebook or twitter then made *those* interactive it would probably work.

Good work man.

If that's not sarcasm (which sometimes I cant tell with you, leaky lol), thank you very much! Do you mean have a facebook or twitter link within the background text?
Thanks =)

lol Thanks! I'm glad you like it. I'll explore the twitter/fb idea a bit.
thanks again!