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orbitanimation.com portfolio site review

Harticus

2004-01-02, 2:19 pm

Hello all. Please review my first portfolio page at:

http://www.orbitanimation.com

I am wondering what people think about the design in general. Is it too sci-fi, or too style-specific for a portfolio site? That kind of thing. Also, wondering if my code is okay. Any and all comments are welcome and appreciated.

Thanks!

2004-01-02, 5:30 pm

Harticus wrote:

quote:

>
> Hello all. Please review my first portfolio page at:
>
> http://www.orbitanimation.com
>
> I am wondering what people think about the design in general. Is it too
> sci-fi, or too style-specific for a portfolio site? That kind of thing.
> Also, wondering if my code is okay. Any and all comments are welcome
> and appreciated.

It has a lot of download time to give us this information:
_______________________________________________________________
Home
[menuleft.jpg] portfolio [menuright.jpg]
services
resume
contact
[menubelow.jpg]
[top.gif]
[mainleftin.gif] [planetin.jpg]
[mainbottomin.jpg] [bottomright.jpg]
Welcome to the brand new website for Orbit Animation. This site will
be updated on a regular basis so please check back often.
There will be a tutorials section coming soon. In the meantime, feel
free to browse the site and check out our portfolio.
____________________________________________________________

I'd expect at least a big newspaper front page or the like
for that kind of performance hit. You do good images, but it
would be better to make the larger ones optional through thumbnails,
and to make the navigation not dependant on them at all.
--
cheers, m at mbstevens.com

Andrew Cameron

2004-01-02, 5:30 pm

Harticus wrote:

quote:

> Hello all. Please review my first portfolio page at:
>
> http://www.orbitanimation.com
>
> I am wondering what people think about the design in general. Is it
> too sci-fi, or too style-specific for a portfolio site? That kind of
> thing. Also, wondering if my code is okay. Any and all comments are
> welcome and appreciated.

My first impression was that it looked nice. Your logo is very neat - I
think you should work it more into the site. However, when I clicked on the
links it kind of broke down; too many images, the viewing area is very small
although the page where I can choose between web design, logos etc manages
to look sparse, and how small is that text? I can't even resize it to see
better!

As for your code, you should stick a doctype on it and then validate at
<http://validator.w3.org>. I can understand your use of tables to get the
design you wanted, but I think the design is flawed as the more I navigate,
the more the site doesn't feel nice - it's not very welcoming because it
feels like... well, a desolate, lonely space ship!

I appreciate that you are trying something different, but I think you
perhaps picked the wrong project to use this design on. I realise you can't
take 90% of these comments on-board because they would require serious
redesign to complete, but I think you need a more professional-looking
layout for a portfolio site; less sci-fi, as you said yourself.

--
Andrew Cameron
"Got my hand on my heart, I know no better location..."

jhart

2004-01-05, 1:20 pm

Thank you both for your comments. I will take it all into consideration when re-designing the site. Basically, you both said what I was already thinking myself. Thanks again.

Jeff Hart

Andrew Cameron

2004-01-06, 4:28 am

jhart wrote:

quote:

> Thank you both for your comments. I will take it all into
> consideration when re-designing the site. Basically, you both said
> what I was already thinking myself. Thanks again.

When you have redesigned, please post again; I'd be interested to see what
you do.

--
Andrew Cameron
"Got my hand on my heart, I know no better location..."