review my portfolio site

[lolkaykay]

This is my first portfolio website and I would really appreciate any feedback:
http://www.katieful.com

 

[lonelytree]

it looks nice...
but it looks kinda dull.. maybe not enough sparkle?
Hmm... Its already very nice though..

 

[Claes Nilsson]

The only thing that was kind of an upset to me was the contact page. It didn't seem to live up to the other pages.

Your content is well designed and stands out well, and I think it's only dull because that we're used to see a lot of portfolio sites that almost unreadable and annoys you like hell with all the extra graphics to give it a "portfolio" look.

I'd say you can easily keep it like that and just make your actual portfolios do the rest.
I do, however, feel that the website image on the index page could be larger - just a bit.

 

[lolkaykay]

Thank you! I'll take all this into consideration.

 

[lolkaykay]

any other comments?

 

[MoreGun89]

I really like the simple and unique navigation structure. Also it's a very clean yet visually appealing site. When there are more things to look at in the portfolio, I think that's when it may take off a little bit more

 

[lolkaykay]

Thank you. I actually thought my site was not simple enough but I guess it might be too simple?

 

[zhoom]

Hi,

I must say that your design it nice. I just feel that it is quite feminine. I think it is better if you make it quite professional look.

 

[lolkaykay]

Yeah... I'm taking my first formal graphic design class in the fall so I was thinking about redesigning it after that. I realized it was too girly after I was 80% done with it but I don't want to redo it just to redo it again in about six months.

 

[zhoom]

It is not that bad. I think you just need to change some color and graphics.

 

[lolkaykay]

Point taken... thanks!

 

[Claes Nilsson]

I don't think it's wrong to have a girly theme. Verlee has done this and it doesn't come to bite her in the tail. The thing is that while you can add it a girly theme, then it should still only be a theme and not the entire page.

So you can keep it part girly part professional

 

[lolkaykay]

So in other words I should keep it subtle

 

[BradT81]

Its nice I agree about the contact page at least add some padding to the form

 

[bcee]

I like the color scheme. Maybe try a custom font for the page headers to add some style.

For your first portfolio site I think it is very well executed. Let's see V2

 

[euwebdesigns]

I think it looks great i have a site which is moreless the same layout search engines love clean layouts like that

 

[lolkaykay]

Yeah, I can try out google's font api for the headers ... I always wanted to experiment with those