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Izzy545
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Posted: 14th May 2009 01:08 Edited at: 14th May 2009 01:09
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Hi there, I've been working on a website design to showcase some photography. This is what I've come up with so far. I'm not much of a designer, and have a hard time telling what's good or not, so I'd love it if I could get some feedback!

Obviously the content is sparse, I'm looking more for feedback on the overall design and color scheme of the page.

http://tempportfolio.webs.com/index.htm

It's hosted at a free place right now until I get my webserver up and running, so please ignore the annoying ad on the bottom.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 14th May 2009 01:40
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I like the colors, clean and simple. You need a logo. And I don't know about that "gallery" list shown on each page when there is a gallery link in the nav bar. It's a little confusing.

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dab
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Posted: 14th May 2009 01:58 Edited at: 14th May 2009 01:59
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It looks alright. Probably too boring for my tastes but there isn't anything wrong with it.

It also doesn't validate, which can be important to some.

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ftempportfolio.webs.com%2Fgallery.htm%23

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Lazlazlaz 1
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Posted: 14th May 2009 03:17
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If you are programming it yourself, as opposed to using dreamweaver to build it or something similar, I would thoroughly recommend using CSS (google it), it will make it all a lot easier.

The design and colours are nice though, one other suggestion though, due to the feel of the site I would recommend that any larger blocks of text (like on your about page) could have extra spacing between each line (e.g. line-height: 1.5 in css). It would keep it in the style of nice large areas of white space.

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Izzy545
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Posted: 14th May 2009 07:47
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Thanks for the feedback all!

I plan on starting to offer my services to artists for dirt-cheap web design, so this is my first foray into something for a portfolio, so please be as tough on me as you like, I need to learn what to correct to make my skills marketable

And Lazlazlaz, thanks for the suggestion, I am actually using CSS right now, that's how all the styling is done, through divs and the like. I definitely like the idea of more spacing between the lines of text, thanks again!

Dab> You say it's boring for your tastes. Any suggestions as to what could be done to spice it up? Or is it just the overall layout? As I said, my forte is not graphical design, so I appreciate any tips you can give.

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Lazlazlaz 1
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Posted: 14th May 2009 14:35
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On a second look I see you are using css, I saw the <p style="font-size:32px; color:black; margin-left: 50px;"> bit and thought that wasn't css which it obviously is. Woops. Although you could use classes instead of defining the style each time.

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jasonhtml
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Posted: 14th May 2009 16:47
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Quote: "And I don't know about that "gallery" list shown on each page when there is a gallery link in the nav bar. It's a little confusing."


i agree. having two nav bars confuses people, especially when the are on opposite sides of the page and look the same. If you want your gallery to be split up into sections, i suggest you make a vertical nav bar of cropped images with text over them. this picture-nav bar could be placed under the other nav bar. this would also give your site more color and make it feel fuller.

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