hello everyone, just thought i'd try to get some feedback from the other designers (and non designers) on the board of my portfolio. I've been working on it for a while and its basically completed, i'm playing around with the right column a little bit and planning to add a scrollbar for the newsfeed from my blog. www.stopdeaddesign.com Let me know what you think and if anything looks dumpy!! i haven't been a member for more than 7 days so i'm sorry its just a text-link. thanks! -chris
haha thanks, i've had mixed responses about the name .. but a lot of the design/photography i do tends to have a slightly dark flare to it so it fits for me!
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Nice work. I think there needs to be something in the main frame when the homepage opens. Maybe if it was like a few of your recent works or something... Also, I don't know if your 'Product' section is needed. I think all the items there could be grouped into the 'design' and 'cover art' sections since that is mainly what they are. You have a nice style though, keep up the good work!
thanks everyone! i appreciate the feedback. I've thought about adding content on the homepage but for now i will be leaving it as is until i have some new content to add, then i may play around with the index page just a bit. and ~Searinox , as for the text i assume you mean the menu? originally i was using a more exciting font but that ment they all had to be images and making these editable text makes updates/changes wayyy easier on me. Once i think the navigation is fully set i think i will make those changes to the text though. thanks! -chris
The portfolio is pretty good, you might want to add content to your homepage, maybe "featured" pieces from each section perhaps?
thanks! i've been playing around with it a bit since reading your suggestion, silver ended up being a bit too light but black with a gradient seems to fit pretty nicely. i'm still trying different things with the gradient intensity but i'll get it eventually
Nice design -- the only thing I would recommend changing at this point is the footer. I like the little vectorial design you've done for it, but the gradient bar above that is just kinda ugly to be honest. There are two things I don't like about it. The first is that black bar that takes up the bottom third of it... I really dislike that. The pattern is okay, and the gradient is a little too strong for my taste, but those aren't the biggest issues. The other thing I dislike about the footer is how the white content just suddenly becomes the footer... there's no border of any kind. This is just my preference, but what I tend to do when designing my footers is to apply a Drop Shadow with a Distance of 1. Then reduce the opacity a bit. I feel it gives the bar a nice little shading that makes it fit in perfectly against most background colours. Other than that, very nice design
I was a little lost when I first went to the homepage. the big blank space in the middle threw me off. Put a nice montage in the empty space on the homepage. I like the right hand column, dont change it, perhaps look at extending the main left table to the edge and left align the page. I understand the use of white space, however think you have too much white space, and lost the focus. Try darkening the BG or giving it a texture. I also digg your portfolio, specially the screen print and your text grunge treatments, your photoshop compositions could do with a little more refining. But I can see you have put in a lot of work into your design and it shows through, Congrads and good luck and have fun
Thanks! thats a good idea about the pixel shadow, i'll give that a try this weekend when i get a chance. i'm still sort of trying out different things for the footer so i may change that at the same time. thanks for your advice, i appreciate it! -chris
Swirly ornaments I used them before. a nice choice I like the header but your index is empty try to add some content there. Regards, Ace.
haha yeah i'm getting a lot of that about the index page, i'll work something up soon to stick in there. thanks for the feedback!