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What I Like -Logo/Brand -Your work (portfolio items) -JS Rotator (although I think the shadow is to dark) -Interior Layout is very Clean and easy to read -Footer Design is superb What I don't Like -Home Page Box Titles ("Our Services", "Core Technologies", "What Other's Say?") I feel the design of these titles is slightly off, the background just doesn't fit with the box. I think if the shadow wasn't as tall and dark it would look more natural. -Services Page Lacks Content -Portfolio Layout may be to minimalistic -Lack of Social Media What's broken -Testimonial Page Footer doesn't hug the bottom of the page (Content issue I think) *Checked in Google Chrome 11.0.696.77

The main idea behind the new design is to be less cluttered and easier to navigate, I just felt my old site was a little too bloated. I personally like the new design better but ofc it's more recent and I tend to grow tired of my older work. But to each his own right?

Hey guys, I just released my new portfolio which I think is a much cleaner and easier to navigate upgrade from my last one. I havn't had much of a chance to test it out extensively so please let me know if you come across anything odd. I know for one thing that many of the animations won't work in all browsers because they are mostly in css3 and jquery. This is also the first site I've built on an mvc framework outside of a team environment so I wouldn't be surprised if I missed something, cheers! new site - http://mattrheault.com old site - http://mjrportfolio.com

I really like your website. It's very easy to read and navigate. Just a few things I think you should change though. -The grey links in the page have the exact same styling as the bolded text, making it hard to differentiate between what is a link and what isn't. -Also, your selling something, You need to draw my attention! Right now the content of your homepage is information with a very very small buy now link at the bottom. How about some visually appealing images in there? Other than that I feel it is a very complete website, and what looks to be a great product

Yeah just for clarification those envato banners were just place holders until I had more articles posted. I removed them since I just posted my 2nd article. Also Clarification on what you think would help with the navigation would be helpful. And yes I'll be happy to review your website

Hello, I am releasing http://www.breakthenetwork.com within the next week or so, or whenever I have at least 5 kickoff articles to do so with. In the meantime, what still needs to be tweaked before official release?

note - css3 transitions only seems to be working in chrome

Hey guys I've been working on a new blogging network, it should look something like this when its done (but not exactly). http://mjrportfolio.com/btn/btn3.jpg I've never used this much css3 and jquery in any of my sites so I want to make sure I get all the kinks out of the way before I release it. Hopefully everything is down-gradable to an extent, but please let me know if you find anything that inhibits the users experience. http://mjrportfolio.com/btn/code/

darken that grey tone a little bit, remove some of the yellow from that lime-green color, and add some very very subtle background gradients and I would say you have a professional looking website. Also its a very bad idea to just blatantly post your email on your website or to use the old html mailto function. Look into php mailing forms, this is much more secure as it keeps spam bots from finding your email and sending you cialis ads every 10 min. good work.

jeez thundervike, don't take me not personally preferring wordpress as a standalone cms for the websites I create as a personal attack or anything... To create the functionality that I implemented in this site purely in wordpress would have taken MUCH MUCH longer than it would have using the system I have put in place, its not a flaw in wordpress, its just simply not what the platform is designed for. I apologize for offending you so badly in my own development decisions.

interesting, I have seen people using wordpress as a standalone cms for non-blog websites, but I've just never seen the practicality in it as you can accomplish the same effects using another cms or framework that is built specifically for the functionality you are trying to create in a much more time efficient manner.

yeah Wordpress is amazing, its so flexible now that I think about it, probably would have been the smarter route to use wordpress as the main cms here :( lol

@thundervike I am using modxcms for the main part of the site so that the client can maintain all of his pages easily himself. On top of that I created a /blog directory and installed wordpress in there. This is to keep fresh content on his site and to bring in more traffic. Of course both cms's are using separate mysql databases if thats what your getting at? I used something called ditto to re-itterate changes he makes on one page of the site to appear on all pages, so thats a big part of why everything loads so slowly. The images he's been uploading through this system are waaaaaay to big I guess I will just have to have a sit down with the client and explain to him how to resize the images he uploads so that they don't end up being so huge and yeah im still pretty amateur at this, but you gotta get your experience somewhere

thank you radar, this is very useful

do you mean make the thumbnail required, or is there a way using php to simply create the thumbnail automatically (this would be best)