My Portfolio

[Utech22]

I need some feedback on my portfolio website
http://www.ictentrepreneur.com

Content, Layout, color scheme, fonts, functionality, etc.....

[hojo]

Howdy,
I'd add more spacing to the nav items. Separate them and bring some more attention to them somehow.

On each page, you should specify a page title. I would also make a sitemap and robots.txt to tell spiders where to and where not to crawl.

Using Firefox, your Google icon is a bit out of alignment. I would try a div tag or table.

I would add more weight to the bottom with maybe a condensed listing of pages. Now a days a lot of blogs use the footer space for a bunch of articles or what not, but keep it simple.

Good luck!

[Utech22]

I updated it how does it looks now?
http://www.ictentrepreneur.com (http://www.ictentrepreneur.com/)

How do i use css to keep the link in the hover (mouse-over) color while the page is being viewed?

[Utech22]

any feedback?

[MurtenSaerbi]

I can't open your website.

[Counterproductive]

Well, for starters you definately need to tone down the colours.
Visual hierarchy is lacking. Typography is boring/weak. Fonts dont really work well together in your design.
IMO its kind of tacky to have ads in a portfolio.

[biznuge]

Please excuse my crit, as I'm not trying to be offensive in any way, and to be honest, you're obviously tryng to hit a local (I'm assuming regional or national jamaica) market with this, and I've no idea what your competition may be here.

The primary tones of the main css background colors look really bad to me. when laid together they just distract me from reading the content that lies within them.

The main body text would be more readable/useable with a background color other than the yellow currently used. maybe either white onblack, or black on white. either way. I've recently had some problems with eye strain, due to having to use an old sun monitor for part of my day job, and this is the first time I've ever experienced straining to read something on a site. This isn't a reflection on your design, just a general comment from my own experience.

The google logo you have in there would be better served as possibly a png with nicely formed edges, rather than the matt black gif you currently have, or maybe even do it so that it doesn't overlap any colour boundaries, but simply sits as a gif or jpeg with a bakcground colour that works.

I think you might be able to give off the jamaican colours in a far more pretty way, by maybe introducing some imagery in there, maybe with less of a primary colour scheme going on, and simplify the rest of the design so that everything is structured better, and more readable, without the clutter of the yellow/gree/red distracting users withihn the entire page layout.

The images of your previous websites on the right (i'm assuming these are portfolio items of your own building) might look better with just a dirty big image of the sites, with perhaps some textual description next to them or even underneath. This would maximise the users view of the site within the thumbnail, and also inject some more textual content into the page which would be useful from an SEO point of view.

"I will even build a basic web site for free" - after many years of freelancing, I'd take this out asap. If you've got the skills, then you should be able to pay the bills. anyone who isn't prepared to pay you for your time, in at least some small way, is of no use to you as a professional designer/developer. people who get free stuff never come back ( as a general rule) and will generally just keep on hitting other free people rather than yourself. don't start a prescident of free tangs...

:2c:

Hope this helps anyway.

[HalfDog]

It's funny how colors, like Jamaica's flag colors, look great on a flag, and horrible on the internet.

[Counterproductive]

It's funny how colors, like Jamaica's flag colors, look great on a flag, and horrible on the internet.

I guess flags are meant to be bold, visable from a distance, websites are not.
I think the colours could still work as highlight colours over maybe a white background.

[UberPooner]

If you wana keep the background that color, play with bolder fonts. It might work. Just make sure they contrast well.

[Utech22]

Thank you all so far (especially biznuge (http://www.kirupa.com/forum/member.php?u=16430)), I will look into all the comments, and post the updates.

Now any other suggestions to get me on the tracks?
How do I set css to keep the hover color when the page is selected.
Similar to the first 5 link here: http://team.etsy.com.

I want when a link click/selected the hover color is highlighted while the page is being viewed using css not js.

[biznuge]

why not investigate Anchor pseudo-classes...

a
a:link
a:selected
a:hover
a:visited

check out the w3 page at http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-CSS2-971104/selector.html for more information. (scroll down the page to "6.7.5 Anchor pseudo-classes: :link , :active , and :visited")

Hope this helps anyway.

[Utech22]

I tried that already, it did not work.

[biznuge]

what exactly isn't working about them? in your current css you have a:link and a:visited as the same colour, so you'll always see links as #0033CC...

not sur eif i missed your point here... ;)

[Utech22]

Similiar to this site menu link, I want the link page that is being viewed be highlighted.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/k6fzka73(VS.71).aspx (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/k6fzka73%28VS.71%29.aspx)

[Utech22]

I can't open your website.
Can you it open now?

[vxd]

Not trying to be mean but I think you should start over, It looks like a site that was made in the 90s.

Check out those "top css site"