Finally redone my portfolio

[rondog]

Something a bit more simple and professional. Please let me know what you guys think. Good or bad :thumb2:

http://ronnieswietek.com

[glosrfc]

It's simple and clean....


...but it takes a while to load. Maybe it's your portfolio images , maybe it's the sound. I suspect the latter as I could hear the usual staccato, stuttering, effect of a sound being loaded. Personally, I prefer sites that have the sound option automatically turned off, so that the sound is only loaded once I've clicked to turn it on.

There are some issues with your About page. The "I know" text is extremely dark on my monitor...so dark that I didn't realise it was there at first. And the text on the right hand side is cut off. For example, I can only see WIDG, SOCI, INTERA...clicking "I know", and I see ACTIO, ACTI, and ACT. This is an issue I've seen before because I have my bookmarks pinned to the left-hand side of the browser in IE7, which obviously reduces the available size of the browser real estate.

Oh, I loaded the site again...those colour circles? Hmmm...they didn't appear first time round and, second time around, they were immediately covered by the dark rectangles. Which begs the question...are they necessary?

Otherwise, like I said, it's quite clean to look at. Just not sure if it shows off your skills though.

[Templarian]

The site is nice other than the ugly red box at the front. Remove that message something about having another tab with flash opened, yea that is about every user that visits your site.

The circles don't add anything and when it "fails" it just shows one circle in the background.

I clicked the portfolio tab and nothing showed up the first time I think you have a bug to work out there.

Agreed about leaving the background music off by default.

[mirabella]

Looks nice. I like the music, circles, color. It's nice, simple, and clean. It was a bit clunky when I was on the about page. My fault because I didn't see the floating X in the upper right corner. I would have liked to see a link that took me to your work and explained a bit more and about yourself also. I'm no expert but I liked it.

[ben36]

The interface is cool, but I'm not really getting much from your portfolio. It may be that I just prefer more case-study type portfolios, but when I can't interact with the projects (and most of them seem to be solely interactive tools), I don't get much out of it. I would recommend giving more explanation. Having usable demos of some of your creations would be really nice, as well.

Oh, and also, have some header text. Just a personal preference, but for someone like myself who leaves many tabs open, I like to know where I'm at if I come upon an unidentified website I had open.

-Ben