W.I.P. portfolio page

[kidlizard]

Hello, just wanted to say hi and what a kewl site you got here. Anyways heres what I have so far. DarrinHoudek

[DAKLOL]

Good job so far, very professional looking. It's sure to bring you some work!

[SJH]

Looks really good, like Daklol said its looking very professional. Really like your logo and the colours you have chosen. Its just a shame you cant click on your finished images in the gallery to make them larger because they look great as they are but would be even better on their own in a larger format. Unless you have already planned to include that then just dont listen to that last part haha

[kidlizard]

Thank You for all the kind words, I have to still create those pages for the HiRes images or closeups. I'll probaly be doing that this weekend. I was wondering what would you think about putting some kind of texture for a backround? I think it might be too white, however, I dont want to take away from the color pallete I have going on.

Thank You,

[DAKLOL]

maybe have a slight grey/white image in the background so it doesnt stand out so much but the white isn't too much of a distraction from the other content.

[kidlizard]

Updated go here

[Jelmer]

Ok, get ready for some critique , I've become more experienced with web designing because of EnjoyCG so I know quite a bit about it now but don't worry, you have a good start.

First of all I would get rid of the background, a simpel gradient is ok but right now it doesn't add anything and is slightly distracting too. I would definitely lose the two images on the home page (pulse & world wide web), why are they there anyway??

You should never add something to your site just to fill some space, if it's 3d artwork, fine but this doesn't make sense to me. Just had a look at the source code, too bad you're still using tables for layout and I don't see any css at all . If you really want to get serious about your site I would ditch the tables and use css table less layout...

So if you are serious about it here are some must reads:
alistapart - probably the best resource on web design, css specific.
w3schools - basic but useful, slightly outdated maybe.
Smashingmagazine - lots of lists of great resources related to web design
layoutgala - nice if you need a css based layout quickly.

I hope you're not overwhelmed by this, if you don't care too much about your site or don't have any time I guess you could leave it like this.

[kidlizard]

Thanks for the heads up. Yah I was just filling up space there on the homepage. Im not much of a webdesigner so Im not too familiar with all that CSS stuff. I dont know if I really have the time too learn it either.

Thanks for the links tho I'll definately take a look.

[kidlizard]

Oh why are tables no good?

[Jelmer]

Although this article is slightly outdated (2004) it has only become more true: Stopdesign | Throwing Tables Out the Window