Archived Review
- Reviewer: memorylast
- Review date: 1st Dec 2008
/First Impression/
There's nothing on your frontpage, I don't know if it was meant to be like this but it's kind of strange because it makes me feel like there's nothing there and there IS supposed to be something there, if you know what I mean.
/Layout/
I'm not enjoying the shadow effect you did for the header, it's a bit long and awkward. I don't like it when people use such long shadow widths for things unless it's used effectively. I'd suggest making it 1px. Same thing for your site name image, the whole thing just doesn't match with the top, it looks awkward and the glowing effect isn't used well either. Overall the CSS is okay, it's easy to locate, browse and read your content. Although I believe that your main font size and line spacing is too small, it really puts me off reading the text.
/About/
As I said with the layout, it's hard to read your text. Even though the paragraph of text isn't a lot, it looks boring and I don't feel like reading it, but I skimmed through it and saw that there is some information about your site but it's not written in an interesting way. If your text is hard to read, it puts people off reading it even more if you write it like it's a piece of writing describing the process of alkaline mixed with acid. Make it more interesting and provide more lengthy information, because it doesn't say too much about your site or you for that matter. If you want to spice it up without editing the text, you could try putting pictures?
/Artwork/
This page took a really long time to load, unfortunately. Each piece takes a minute to load. As a visitor, I would not be patient enough to actually WAIT for things to load at such a slow pace. I looked at some of your artwork, and some are good but some are really low quality stuff that seems to be blends and others that looked a bit like graphics I used to make when I was 10. You should just showcase artwork that are your best works for people to see, don't just throw in whatever you can find.
/Written/
For blogs/journals/written work I'd suggest using Wordpress rather than FanUpdate, as Wordpress is just better for that purpose. Shouldn't you allow comments or put this page up on the index instead of here because I find that rather confusing. Other than that, nothing much to say about this page.
/Hosting/
Shouldn't the title be "Get a Portfolio?", I don't know if you meant it like that but just thought I'd point that out. Also, I'd suggest getting a form here for people to fill in instead.
/Overall/
Everything is very boring, the colors are dull and I'm usually one that's fond of simple designs, but as simple as your site may be, it's just a boring kind of simple. Also as I said before, the text is really hard to read, please look up on that. There wasn't really anything that I particularly liked, which is why I had to give you a 1.