Website Review and Suggestions

**serandfae** · 11:09 PM

Trying to turn what was just a portfolio on a personal web page into something more professional, adding more color, going for something between a comic book feel and something more elegant. I'll be using Lightbox 2 on the portfolio pages, and a "What's new" section in the right sidebar where the portfolio links are now as a placeholder. The links are not yet active.

http://bellsouthpwp2.net/j/a/jam331/ (the concept page) as opposed to

http://www.e-gads.org (the original page)

(Note: Yes, I know that IE7 and below destroy the page, and Opera seems to choke on the scroll. This is just a concept test in the real browsers before I debug for the crap browsers).

tim

**kij99** · 10-12-2009, 05:52 PM

The site is fine. Very graphic though. loads faster.

**FCBarcelona** · 10-18-2009, 07:03 AM

the concept page looks better than the original page but there is less information on it and its difficult to know in first go that what is this page all about?

**davemies** · 10-18-2009, 10:36 AM

to be brutally honest i can't find a single thing i like about it

as a personal site it would be your choice but as you saying your aiming for more professional and elegant then you're nowhere near.

i would start again.

**Joshy D** · 10-18-2009, 11:05 AM

mate, some of your work is brilliant. especially the drawings, they are fantastic.
(are they your work? i assume they are.)

but you're website does not reflect that at all. i see you're website and my first impression is 'this is going to be rubbish' and so i wouldn't continue looking.

you should start again.
or pay for someone else to do it.

the only thing i would say is that, the layout you've you used in your concept is a good idea and could have some potential.

JD

**World** · 10-19-2009, 03:23 AM

I see you like cartoons.

I would even go farther.

I envy you that you already know javascript. Maybe you can add a comment on how to best learn it to my question in the javascript forum?

**fbodygallery** · 10-21-2009, 02:02 PM

the concept page has a large block of text "presentation is everything.." and that is very wide, so i have to scroll to the right to view it. that seems to be a problem somewhere. i am using IE7. the links over the photo of the head look a little odd too.

**edesimusic** · 10-22-2009, 10:29 AM

what is your site all about ?

**serandfae** · 11-08-2009, 09:42 PM

Thanks to all. I decided to take a different direction with it. The new concept home page is still at http://bellsouthpwp2.net/j/a/jam331/. I still have to tweak it a little so IE7 and before will behave, so bear in mind I'm aware of the IE7 display quirks.

tim

**TheDon** · 11-09-2009, 02:24 AM

Nice, but that red is just to bright for me

**Lemonie** · 11-09-2009, 06:48 PM

yeah, me either..the red color hurt my eyes

**whatsherface_21** · 11-10-2009, 02:59 PM

I get what you're going for but it's just not there.

The drawings in your portfolio are terrific though - and since you have that particular skill at your fingertips, I'd seriously consider using a large hand-drawn image as your background (ONE large image NOT tiled) and building the rest of your site on top of it.

....just my 2 cents.