Hello ! I am a web designer and I just updated my portfolio. Kindly view my portfolio at www.royaltouchdesigns.com and tell me what you think about it and any kind of suggestions are welcomed. Thanks.
Hey, Your site's homepage banner makes my eyes pain. Your site does not have meta tags! Your site content is good.
Hello geeks4share, Thanks for your suggestion. Can you advise what kind of banner should I Use ? While I was designing my portfolio i was very much attracted to collage effects , so I thought of putting one in the banner. What kind of banner do u think is appropriate. ?
After thinking about your banner, I dont think it is the collage effect itself, but the way t is presented, maybe widening each photo would work and maybe putting that overlay as stripes as you did on the far left of the banner. Also I would recommend not putting so many outbound links to other sites on your homepage. I really like your color scheme and logo.
Hello ! Thanks for such constructive suggestions. They are very help full You mentioned not to put so many outbound links. But that is the only way I can direct clients to my latest work. What other solution do you propose I should use you think ? And about the banner, Its quite a nice idea to put overlay on stripes. but don't u think that it would make the banner quite dull ? As my whole website theme is a quite dull . Thanks for suggesting.
Again a lousy site done with Dreamweaver. Dude, you maybe are not bad as a graphic artist but you suck in "coding". geeks4share is right, the header is a pain to look at. The idea is not bad but ... Slicing a photoshop design is NOT the way to make a portfolio. I would never book you.
Yeah this design is really lowsy with poor formating. I hate to troll but learn to Notepad++, AKA write the coding yourself and stop using dreamcrap.
To CSM, Thanks for suggestion, your right . Basically I am a Graphic Designer not coder. I do understand the suggestion on the banner, but what do you propose about the coding part ? Thanks for suggesting.
I think you home page banner would look cooler with flash. Have the Royal Touch designs image up first and stay on top, then and the faces open up one by one on top of each other. also why not instead of having the background as a pattern having it a solid color and make it sort of blend into the background you are using for your navigation menu. I like your headings. really sharp looking. Julie
Your portfolio has the nuts a bolts of what you need. However, I don't think it screams modern or professional. Plus, after a quick glance it didn't include any modern social media elements (if you have any it's at the bottom which is the wrong place.) All of these items are very important for a portfolio. Make sure your SEO is tight too. I think your portfolio still needs a lot of work. You want it to be your very best work as it represents your skill set.
Hello ! Thanks for your suggesting. When I started working on the portfolio, I first was very clear that I would use flash in the banner and frankly the same way JJulian advised. . But later during the design I realized that flash is a bit outdated these days. So stiked to HTML. And about modern social media elements, I am aware of the fact that the placement of such elements are not very good in the portfolio. I am currently working on that and making my site more visible on such forums like myspace ,blog etc. I want sugggestions on the content of the site. So i can keep them in mind during the upgrade. Thanks
My first question is what do you want people to do when they go to your website? Make sure that has the main focus. I would a feature only one current project. I would add the FB Like button to your portfolio and makes sure each project has it's own page. Be sure to note specifically what you did for that project. Use jQuery instead of flash. If you do your website in WordPress you'll have a pile of plugin's to choose from for the feature section on your home page.
I think your banner is a good idea. As an Art Major, I would recommend not having as many different photos in the banner. If they were bigger, or somehow all of the different faces combined in to one, it would look better.
Hello ! Firstly I would thanks for your constructive suggestions. . You asked that what do I want people to do when they visit my website. I want to people or willing clients to view my graphic design skills and contact me in that perspective. Secondly your suggestion on each project having its own page is noted.. . I would do that in the upgrade. Thanks.