Punky's portfolio, finally 'done'

[punky]

Ok, so some of you might know that I've been working on my online portfolio, I made about 8 different designs and styles and got tired of just making these 'test sites' and finally got to the point of making a real portfolio!
It's not perfect at all, since this is practically the first finished site I've ever made, but now I can at least show some of my work to people by just linking to my site
At the moment I'm not going to chance much but I would appreciate some feedback of course.
link: http://jvmedia.combell.net/

[Psy]

Comtact?

[vcool]

Scale the image of yourself down. We only see the small version of it, but it still loads the full resolution.

[punky]

Comtact?

It's a N, not a M, maybe I should re-do it if more people confuse those...

[Spas12]

It looks exactly like an "m".

[KILLA-COW]

I think I should design your portfolio for you.

[punky]

It looks exactly like an "m".

For me it looks like an N, but I'll change it then.

I think I should design your portfolio for you.

cool, go ahead

[cypher543]

The green doesn't work well with the gray background, and I don't understand why people put a Home button on their homepage that links to the homepage. Also, your picture is 2048 x 3072, but you're scaling it down to 400 x 300. Since you're only using the picture in one place, why not just scale it down to 400 x 300 in an image editor and take pity on dialup users? I'm on broadband and it still took a helluva long time to download.

[punky]

The green doesn't work well with the gray background, and I don't understand why people put a Home button on their homepage that links to the homepage. Also, your picture is 2048 x 3072, but you're scaling it down to 400 x 300. Since you're only using the picture in one place, why not just scale it down to 400 x 300 in an image editor and take pity on dialup users? I'm on broadband and it still took a helluva long time to download.

I'll try to change the color scheme a bit, and delete the home button then. I already noticed the slow picture loading, it's because I thought when scaling images in dreamweaver they would also change to that res, not just load a high quality thumb of the image...

[vcool]

You still have the large image of you loading.

Make a small version of it. If you want people to be able to enlarge it, then link it to the big picture.

It's a pain to load the contact page and see how the small picture is loaded line by line.

[Sebhael]

The design itself is nice and efficient for what it is that you do, but I would recommend a different background color - and maybe a nicer looking default font on the main page (Tahoma?).

Also, just like Cypher said - that green doesn't really fit at all. On the front page, yes - but inside the actual portfolio that is surrounded with gray and black, and there's not a lot of green in your other works - so it sticks out. A deep orange or red should look fine?

[punky]

Good suggestions, thanks!

[TicTac]

Punky, you need to fix your homepage. Green on Gray is difficult to see/read, and it's relatively bland. Try and give it a theme that's similar to the rest of your portfolio, as well. Maybe, if you want to keep something like that center... whatever it is ( ), you can have a computer (on the monitor would go the links)

[punky]

Edited the homepage and fixed the images loading at full res, let me now what you think of the new homepage, I tried to listen to your suggestions

-> print screen pasted in paint quality :p

(didn't upload the edited site to the ftp yet, so you won't be able to see the changes on the actual site already...)

[Psy]

Eurgh. Put your portfolio on the front page. Splash pages are pointless.