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Old 01-27-2007, 09:05 PM need opinions about portfolio
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first of all, i need a review of my english....
if you see something wrong, please tell me here

second... critique all you can see !

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Old 01-28-2007, 02:32 AM Re: need opinions about portfolio
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Your design is the best I have ever seen, literally. The only problem I found is on your about me page you you put 5 ears, instead of 5 years. You made the same mistake somewhere else on the same page.
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Old 01-28-2007, 09:23 AM Re: need opinions about portfolio
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Very nice site, design-wise. The animation is minimalist yet attention grabbing. The navigation is user friendly and appropiate. Only thing is the site is not at all search engine friendly. But probably you were not aiming for that. Other than that all scores perfect for me.
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Old 01-28-2007, 11:46 AM Re: need opinions about portfolio
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Very nice site, design-wise. The animation is minimalist yet attention grabbing. The navigation is user friendly and appropiate. Only thing is the site is not at all search engine friendly. But probably you were not aiming for that. Other than that all scores perfect for me.
i have to learn more about seo...
* but why do you say this ?

what's wrong whith sEngine friendly ?
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Old 01-28-2007, 06:31 PM Re: need opinions about portfolio
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Very well done,can't see any probs you worked hard on this
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Old 01-29-2007, 06:40 AM Re: need opinions about portfolio
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i have to learn more about seo...
* but why do you say this ?

what's wrong whith sEngine friendly ?
Well, I can't even begin to start here. There is almost zero text content on home page or others. The title tags are not optimized. No h1/h2 tag. Links or navigation is not text based with proper anchors. In one word this site was not made with search engines on mind. You will also need to learn a lot about off-site promotions. But these are basic on page SEO factors.
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Old 01-30-2007, 08:39 AM Re: need opinions about portfolio
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Wow! The design is very nice. nevertheless, I would make such changes:
1. An image on the home page - everything you want, maybe an example of what you can do, a nice abstraction... I don't know what exactly but there is need to plave something there becouse it seems the last page of a book, not the first.
2. Maybe it will be pleasant for people to see your photo on the About me page. Usually they like to know how a person looks like.
In general - it's really good! Compliments!!!
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Old 01-30-2007, 08:45 AM Re: need opinions about portfolio
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You're is smart man ,that is a good site bro....
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Old 01-31-2007, 09:25 AM Re: need opinions about portfolio
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I love the site layout.
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Old 01-31-2007, 01:37 PM Re: need opinions about portfolio
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Ok. I love the layout. I like the fast load time too, considering that it's got flash on it.

As mentioned, flash sites are a killer when it comes to SEO. Because the search engines cannot read the text on them, or the link urls on them, they can't follow and index your site's links and content. Which means you have to find other ways to tell the search engines what is actually there. And it would be good to have a non-flash alternative for those who either have flash disabled, or are on dialup (yes, there's a lot still on dialup, from my experience in doing computer support)

You do have regular html links on there as well, which is good. And you have a sitemap, which can help. But the thing is, when you click on one of the links in the flash animation, it brings up text in the animation, not html text that the search engine can read. So the search engines won't be able to tell what content you have. As far as they're concerned, you have a bunch of links and no "relevant" content to go with it.
With good use of css and divs, you should be able to create a similar look, which will have actual body text. Or use css to dynamically resize images on mouseover, and on click, and to pop up the blocks of text when one is clicked on maybe? (Like in some css menus I've seen)

Also, on the left side, you have two main categories with sub categories to go with them. Those LOOK like they should be links to more information about those items. But they're not.

some suggestions/observations:
in your meta tags, which search engines use to try and figure out what your site is about, in order to properly categorize it, you have:
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<title>.. vpx .. vectorial pixel webdesign .. main page .. </title>
<meta name="description" content="vectorial pixel web design and web development" />
<meta name="keywords" content="vectorial, pixel, web, layout, irimia, octavian, webdesign,  design, webdevelop, development, php, mysql, macromedia, flash, html, css, adobe, photoshop, tutorials, free, templates" />
<meta name="robots" content="ALL" />
<meta name="verify-v1" content="131V++2L/K6RSBDz6mtRH9GmcXa7t7BNbGyQjZ8PGUc=" />
<base href="http://www.vectorialpx.net/newweb/" />
<meta name="description" content="vectorial pixel's main page" />
<meta name="keywords" content="first, page" />
You should have a more descriptive title. Yes, your name should be in it, but it should read more like the second line there, under description... And the description tag should be more of a sentence-like description, and a tad bit longer, as many search engines will use this tag for the site's description in their search.

And you have two description tags... And you have two keywords tags... The second tag for each of those really does nothing for the site, so I would simply get rid of it.

Your css mouseovers are nice. The whole site has a good clean uncluttered look to it, but it just needs more search engine viewable text on the home page.
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Old 01-31-2007, 01:41 PM Re: need opinions about portfolio
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I found your navigation rather hard to find. When I first visited your site it looked to me as though the items under "Web Services" and "Graphics" on the left was your navigation. It is a basic requirement of any web page that the navigation be easy to find and use.
Are you sure that the path to your images is correct as I couldn't load them. I tried in IE7, Firefox and Opera.
Apart from the above I liked the look and colour pallette you have chosen.
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Old 01-31-2007, 05:20 PM Re: need opinions about portfolio
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so... i used flash for some animation because the image of the entire site was static... the SEO problem exists but I want a good looking site, first of all

like grayceworks sais, my real problem is about SEO...
about the
description, I thought that will be a count of words there...
I know this happens with the keywords... I'll read more about this before delete the tags

the only problem with the flash is in linux, that has the 7th vers. about loading, it's a small movie that will load fast

aldor, i have a real problem with this first page...
I_Explorer will not load images at first load of the page and ONLY at first page. if you click any button on the page, there is no problem...

the htaccess redirects to vectorialpx.net/newweb/ and there is the site... into the vectorialpx.net folder is no index file...
I've seen the problem only at IE !
and only at the first page...

if i get into vectorialpx.net/webstuff.html, there is no problem !
the css is loaded, because the links are ok... the problem is only at images !

does anyone know why is this happening ?!

lots of thanks to all for all !

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Old 01-31-2007, 05:52 PM Re: need opinions about portfolio
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solved...

htaccess :

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.vectorialpx.net/.*$
RewriteRule .*\.(gif|jpg|png|fla|psd)$ - [F]

I didn't want nobody to access my files from external sources

Question: how to protect images from the server ?
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Old 02-01-2007, 02:02 AM Re: need opinions about portfolio
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A good design. I like that
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Old 02-01-2007, 03:04 PM Re: need opinions about portfolio
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Hi
I've just gone back to your site and everything loads fine now.
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Old 02-01-2007, 08:36 PM Re: need opinions about portfolio
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Old 02-02-2007, 11:00 AM Re: need opinions about portfolio
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Hi,
very nice site. Just one issue. I use quiet "exotic" resolution 1680x1050. I would appreciate fixed width, as it doesn't seem so good to me.
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Old 02-03-2007, 06:04 AM Re: need opinions about portfolio
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1680x1050 ?! oooaauu!

anyway... th position of the menu is fixed and is for resolutions > 1024x768
...but 1680x1050 is... a lot!

you suggest to make a div with a fixed size?
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Old 02-03-2007, 06:36 AM Re: need opinions about portfolio
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oh no...i can't open it here....why??? i'm curious about it's design...is it really great..oh i need to see it...
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Old 02-03-2007, 07:53 AM Re: need opinions about portfolio
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Maybe you can add some statistics to your site and the users resolution. I am used to see sites a bit different, but please check for example this site http://www.ogden2k.net/ or any other blog. These sites usually have fixed width and for me it is better
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