New Portfolio Site Design

[Jsheffers]

I have been on this forum for a while, and my portfolio has taken many different turns. This is my most recent design. Let me know what you think. Still working out kinks so don't be too harsh.

 

www. pl a insh ane design.com

[Andrea]

I'd go with HTML 4.01 strict instead of XHTML transitional. See HTML or XHTML

 

Instead of

Featured Work

and

Other Sites I enjoy

, use tags.

 

There's a period behind 'plate' and nothing behind 'enjoy' - How about a colon for both - or nothing?

 

Italics are hard to read.

 

Under the 'iPhone', 'photography', and 'tutorials': On the web, underlines imply LINK - why not just underline those instead of saying 'Click here for whatever' - that is so 1995, when folks still needed step-by-step guidelines on that click concept.

 

The "Welcome, I am a freelance...." works on the index page as an intro/explanation, but seems a bit much showing up on every page.

 

On the About Me page, you again have the "What I can do for you" with a period, and nothing following the other header. And the pink hover is a bit much for me.

 

Link to "tutorials' isn't there yet (but you probably know that).

 

Overall, I'm not too fond of the all black background - but that's clearly one of those subjective things.

 

And I just notice the pink favicon. Pink only shows on that one hover and the favicon - just doesn't tie into the entire design for me at all.

[lm]

indeed top menu and the header put down the whole layout. Top menu will look better with other font , and something is missing in the header: good font choice but may be logo is missing or some picture?

Edited May 5, 2009 by lm

[Jsheffers]

The fav icon shouldn't be pink. I changed it a while ago. It should have PSD in it with the blue color. I still have some grammatical errors to fix, but thanks for your input. I will take your comments into consideration. As far as under the tutorials and photography those are images. Not actual text so should I change the image to have the text underlined. The font looks good for the nav on a mac, but windows sucks at rendering text. I'll be making changes as it progresses. Thanks again.