Hybride Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 Hey everyone, up for grilling is my portfolio: Anekyu. It's a design/code/writing (artistic?) portfolio, but I have this really aggravating amateur touch to it that I can't figure out what - my guess it's the softness of the graphics. (It's that last step before you get the "eureka!" moment to go to professionalism). I would really like it if you guys absolutely tear it apart and let me know what you think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axeia Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 It's the soft fades that make it look amateur'ish, and the purple links.. which is in most browsers the default color for a visited link. Think most fonts are at their default size as well and some mor spacing between links in the menu wouldn't hurt. I'd get rid of the right column, it barely serves a purpose and the content feels cramped http://www.anekyu.com/art/ don't use scaled down images as thumbnails, makes it take forever to load the page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrg_alpha Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 I would really like it if you guys absolutely tear it apart and let me know what you think. Careful what you ask for - I do find the GUI amateurish.. it's all the gradients and the plain lettering with black outlines... (this lends to skills 'anyone' can do kind of thing, which in turn explains why it feels amateurish IMO). If you reduced the amount of gradients, perhaps worked in some nice tight-clean beveled effects and overlayed some nice shiny metal texture, it would add more polish and punch (speaking about the header / menu graphic part). The style (and the physical dimensions) of that image doesn't quite go with the rest of the body I find.. They kind of clash.. Perhaps finding a style that unifies them would work better. - You make use of the h2 heading tags.. But perhaps adding a single prominent h1 tag? Also, the 'keywords' meta tag is not very useful. You can also scrp the meta robots tag as well, as by default, search spiders will crawl the entire contents of the site (where allowable in accordance to the robots.txt file apparently). - I would have a look at your markup and css validation issues. - http://www.anekyu.com/art/digital/series/godssouls/ your portfolio images are being forced into non-native resolutions. As a result, they look stretched or squashed. I would scale each image down till they fit comfortably within their container to eliminate this effect (and have custom thumbnails for each one that isn't stretched or squashed either). I would check all portfolio images. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hybride Posted May 21, 2009 Author Share Posted May 21, 2009 Every bit helps, and you guys have given me great tips. I really appreciate it! (though I was expecting more of a harsher response. XD) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axeia Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 I'll split up the harsh critique in parts, everytime something is fixed I'll find something else to complain about Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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