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I can has a portfolio site now pls, about damn time too.

http://ominous1.net

Suggestions and critiques welcome, I know it's a bit slow atm I'm still optimizing the site as I go.

Wow that's some amazing work, I hope I can be that good someday. And the site looks nice too.

Looks like crap. Scrap all that crap.

Ditch the flash.
Why do I need to hover over home to see what should be root level menu options?
Do you really need a loading bar for images that are only 100-300kb?
On the same note you might wanna have higher resolution shots, or at least let them scale larger. As is they're tiny.

But in all seriousness loose the flash.

I agree with Mollick. Your site looks very cool and all, but not really needed all that fancy stuff (though it doesn't bother me that much).

Check Mapcore's portfolios sub-forum. Lots of great portfolios there and post yours too for professionals to give feedback:

http://forums.mapcore.net/viewforum.php?f=65

Few of my favourites I've bumped into during years (some might have flash/"scripted-stuff"):

http://andykim.carbonmade.com/

http://2d-chris.com/

http://www.wesleytack.com/

http://www.alecmoody.com/newsite/

http://www.helderpinto.com/

http://www.generalvivi.com/

It looks great, however I do have one crit... The menu being invisible until you hover over home is a bit odd. there is no indication that is how the nav would show up. Maybe change "home" to "navigation" which would instantly show the viewer to go there to find his or her way around...

What even is this site. Your work is truly wonderful, but I had to motivate myself to get there and even then I felt the need to stop, set up tent and rest on my quest to find the screenshots. I spent a lot of time pressing everything on screen before finding the home button.

And why's it so far down the screen? It's almost off it. If I used it on my netbook or something I wouldn't even see it and call it a broken site.

I'm not even convinced it's supposed to look like that. Was it tested in all browsers? (Basically Firefox, Chrome, Safari and IE if you have to )

Imo, I think the site looks really good, when using Firefoxs' noscript.

Zecrah wrote:And why's it so far down the screen? It's almost off it. If I used it on my netbook or something I wouldn't even see it and call it a broken site.

He designed it to be viewed at a certain resolution. It doesn't scale vertically at all.

I should say, so I don't come off quite as arrogant as I probably did earlier, that design wise it is quite pleasing. However using flash for the overall site is a big no-no these days. You can produce the sliding effects and using obscure font's all you want with just html/css and js. Which is a much more efficient medium as its smaller and there isn't any need for loading screens. Its also useful in case of mobile users, which there's a fairly high chance that a perspective employer might wanna pull up your site on his/her phone.

jfyi, I'm a freelance web developer.

Yeah this is why I'm testing this right now lol, I tested this on chrome and firefox and designed it based on 1280x1024 (most widely used res according to internets) and mine is 1920x1200 so I am wondering what it would look like on other browsers/res and on mobile.

As for the screenshot size, they're actually very large thats why it took so long to download, you can download them in full res by pressing on it, but I was ho-hum with the image gallery script myself, might change it for max display but making them fit on all res is tricky.

I kinda already know the usual portfolio site crits as I've attended many of those sessions and I have a simpler one here :

http://taychind.carbonmade.com

However I find it totally boring and super generic so I made this one for fun so I can tweak it to be my actual portfolio. In my opinion I feel like having a weird ass portfolio would at least make them remember you - but certainly not an ineffective one, so ima fix those images.

Hover menu is staying tho, I love hover menus.

@Zecrah : What resolution and browser are you using?

I like the fact you didnt go same path than everyone else did.

It's pretty confusing to navigate, i would add more buttons for each section, instead of one "main menu" button.

Otherwise good stuff and i still love your avatar.

SotaPoika wrote:Few of my favourites I've bumped into during years (some might have flash/"scripted-stuff"):

http://andykim.carbonmade.com/

Thank you for the compliment, Sota!

Ok testing a new gallery system under WORKS, check it out! Also changed main menu to "HOME" instead of "MORE".

http://ominous1.net

Hey Krem, nice site going on there. Good cohesive feel to the whole thing. As it is now I like the current gallery but it's a bit frustrating getting out of an expanded image.

Nice to see your animation and illustration works as well.

1440x900 and Chrome.
Steam hardware survey says its 9.08%, my resolution

But yeah, don't get me wrong it looks nice, could just do with some practical tweaking

I'd also point out that quite a few computers at my school and such still use 1024x768 for some reason. It may be likely some businesses and such are. As someone said a sort of static version would be good for you to redirect to for mobiles and low-resolution machines.