On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Prasad, Ramit <ramit.pra...@jpmorgan.com> wrote: > David Hutto wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:06 AM, Demian Brecht <demianbre...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > * Your strength is not design. Using bevel and emboss (and a pattern here >> > and there) does not constitute good >> design. >> >> It's simplicity within a symbolism, and now that I need money for >> medical reasons, the work I've done isn't perfect, but it's on par. >> >> I know when I see something aesthetically pleasing, and if I like what >> I have, I'm using the same mindset. >> >> If you're showcasing logo work, I hope you're ready to supply >> variations that can be used cross-medium.
Well, all of these are my domain names, and works in progress/revision. The client would get several versions, and know what they want me to do, I just have to be able to do it for them, and add in a little extra to show my worth to them. >> >> These are all portfolio sites of my own, and I'm slowly revising them, >> just like any other rough draft, and as you can tell I'm asking other >> people to critique it. >> > > Aesthetics and web design are relative to the eye of the beholder. It's a statistic. I see things that lots of others like, so when I design, I say tomyself do I like that enough? But it's always in revision for perfection of the piece being worked on, just like apps have revisions, so do logos and artwork. > The question is whose opinion matters. Yours? Mine? Others? Personally, > I heartily second the recommendation to get professional advice on site > design. Your site reminds me of something I would create in the '90s > with FrontPage (do people even use that anymore?) as an amateur or > hobbyist; not something I would create as a professional attempting > to market my services. > I'm moving toward the smaller devices, but I'm a desktop guy, and so are a lot of others. And what site doesn't have a frontpage? > Now I do not say this in order to be mean, but to provide constructive > criticism. Not because I do not like the site; but because I think > *other* people will not like the site layout and ultimately my opinion > does not matter; it matters what your prospective clients think. That goes back to stats. You might not be the demographic I attract, but others will like it...hopefully That > is unless you can afford to turn away business by sticking to your > design principles. No, the client is the main opinionator. If they like some of my stuff, and have an idea they need implemented, I just showcae I can do it. > > Several top level links did not work and that is a bad sign for a > portfolio. At the very least, take a few minutes to setup a blank page I thought there were blank pages, and within the next week or so, there will be more. I'm looking toward other programmers for peer review to refine my main site. > so the visitor does not get a 404 error. The background of your logo > page should match the color scheme of the rest of the website. Oh, > and your logo for your main page is incomprehensible to me. I am not > sure if it is a artistic design or some text, but it is too hard to make > out. > > It is hard to say much more since the site is so bare. I will reiterate > what others have said regarding background sounds (especially ones that > start by default). If you take a look at some famous websites and you will > notice that they rarely have sound and for good reason. > It's more of a commercial to me. In the end it doesn't show the webcrawlers for SEO my text, and it's a rough draft. It'll eventually be just a banner ad, and there will be a more static design. > Another thing to note is wasted space. Network bandwidth is a commodity. > You pay for it and your visitor pays for it. You pay for it in terms of > hosting or internet service while the visitor pays for it in internet > service and possibly even in their data cap. I cannot imagine loading > your website from a phone (nor would I ever try to). > > You want to be as efficient as possible. Have you ever taken a look at > Google's home page source? Now they are an extreme example of keeping a site > lean, but maybe that will give you an idea of how important it is. An overly > giant GIF and sound files are poor choices. It should be easy to compress the > GIF to a *much* smaller file size while keeping the animation. You can > probably use a midi file for the same effect with regards to sounds I'm working on the reduction right now, and that's the reason for asking for reviews. . > > I hope that helps, Don't worry, it does. -- Best Regards, David Hutto CEO: http://www.hitwebdevelopment.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
