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certainly coming along.
I agress with most point mentioned about, but personally i dont have issues with a standard text based nav.. to be honest if the arguement is that you will stand out more with icons, i dont know about that, everyone is doing that these days, so it is getting rather... well done.
I personally think, especially with a folio site, that the site should be very visual, but i think that it should focus on your work more than pretty bits and pieces that you put around the edge. But in saying this i am a very minmalist designer, i like to see things nice and clean...
I think the logo is a little big, and have a play with the colour as mentioned, with such a dark background colour i would go something fairly bright, for a bit of contrast...
Yeah that is about it though.
You are well on the way there mate, and to be honest most things i mention are just what i personally think, so you know... dont see them as gospel.
Anyhow mate, goodluck with the site!!!!
I'm definitely a minimalist most of the time so I do want to keep things simple and focus on the portfolio pieces. So I am probably going to leave the nav text-based. I am going to play with colors and the logo size, but I do want to keep the colors of the logo so I'm kinda stuck. I feel like if I make the background color any lighter, the logo will just stand out even less. hmm
Thanks again for the feedback.
1. If you've decided that you've adopted it as your personal style and it shows in your other work, then I think a minimalist portfolio will work.
2. If it doesn't reflect in any of your other work at all, then I wouldn't recommend doing it.
3. If your other work is a well balanced mixture of design styles, minimalism could probably work as well.
4. OR if you truly think you've got a decent amount of amazing work in your portfolio, then a minimalist design will work as well. Because then, your works speak for you and the portfolio design doesn't have to.
Be minimalist, but do it an outstanding way. Because though I'd hate to admit it, designers are a dime a dozen and so is a minimalist style. If you want your portfolio to jump out and grab an art director or other web employer, you've gotta spice it up with color and composition.
But like, tornandweathered said, this my personal opinion, and you don't have to take it as "gospel." However, always be true to yourself and keep high standards. Take your portfolio and put it next to the best on the web ask yourself if you think it can compete.
Our field's getting uber-competitive so I'd personally always want to maintain an edge.
Meh, i dont know, just a suggestion
Cheers cheers
I think your name and logo are too big, its kind of overwhelming, its not too bad on the main menu but in the gallery it seems like it doesn't work too well.
Oh yea, and I don't feel like the "loading..." text works well in that placement either, maybe smaller and in the middle of the circle? Its kind of disrupting the flow of the positive and negative space thats going on in the preloader page.
Anyways, keep off the crack and keep it real!
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...ok, I'm mellow now.
There are actually only 3 fonts other than the logo. I only really changed the size.
I think I'm going to try shrinking my logo on the gallery page. Good thought.
The loading text is a bit out of place. I'll reconsider.
Thanks a bunch for all the great feedback. Watch me, and keep an eye on this as I update it.
The navigation does need some work though. I don't really like nav schemes that bring more options one a menu item is clicked/rolled over.
Find more ways to incorporate your logo.
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Those are some really great points.
palette - yeah, I do like the colors but I know a lot of people usually disagree with me on color so I wanted to keep it open. And I'm now reconsidering because you mentioned a gradient. That sounds good.
nav - super tough. I know what you mean about simplifying it, but I have so many sections and links I want to incorporate so it would be so hard not to have some sort of sub-nav. I'll think about it, if you come up with anything or have any examples, let me know.
logo - how else should I incorporate it? Do you mean to move it around and keep it less static? Or do you mean to just have more than one logo on the page?
thanks for all the feedback!!
Hmmm...I WONDER where I'm gonna get somebody who does web design? Hmmmmm...
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Do you dislike any of it? Could you see any improvements to be made?
Yeah, I wonder where you'd find someone who's just plain awesome at web design..... hmm
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