Cool, but you need clickable images right from the start... I clicked on that tiki mask icon, was taken to photobucket, gave up...
Also, what exactly is a 'blogroll'? I'd say avoid web2.0 geek talk as much as possible, your target is ADs and artists, not hyped kids! Same thing on the comments and other clickable blogish things - turn them off as much as you can!
Can't wait to see all your recent works on display there!
I know you're going for simplistic, but there could still be some sort of art in your design. Right now this is coming off as a word doc saved as an html file. Additionally, and probably the worst of worsts, cgchat is linked before polycount...ahem :]
I normally assume that basic html is in everyone's library of knowledge, but I understand the majority of people don't spend the time getting to know it. I'd say head on over the something like www.htmlgoodies.com and check out some of their tutorials/code snippets.
I would atleast put a couple of pieces of art right up front, so people are encouraged to look at more stuff. I don't think having any type of art in your design is really needed, just show your art, the html is secondary.
I agree with having something on the front page. Right now I find the site very uninteresting/uninviting. IMO white with black text is hard to look at.
I think you can still leave it simple, but add in some of your work on each page or make a header image with a collage of your work.
Well yeah as Geezus said, basic html is very simple to learn - its just that it gets lost between both the new 'improved' html as CSS + other useful goodies, and fast html solutions like blogs and all.
Why do you have 14 page sections linked at the top when they are all visualized as thumbnails on the page AND in that little "pages" box on every page? You've also go your home page listed twice in there.
I'd get rid of those little pages boxes on each page, they are cluttered clutter. Change "home" to "portfolio" and get rid of all the other links in the main menu besides CV, Links and Leave a message.
edit: whoa, is everything changing as I wrote this? it looks all over the place now.
Hey Shepeiro, if you have access to theme editor and can change all the template tags and CSS, I'd suggest looking at some existing themes whose layout you like and trying to copy that to your theme. I used WP for over a year and I modified it about 4 times now, so if you get stuck, I hope I can help. You should be able to create sub-pages, and you also have ability to have them not show, but rather to list them on parent pages. For example, you can have page for Resume/CV, for projects, for Contact and that's it, and then have subpages for your individual projects. I did something like that with subpages. If you look at http://fogmann.com/foglog/ - those links on the top below the header are page links.
As for your watermark, I think you would be better off to put your name and email on your images instead of a logo, as that way when someone saves your image off the net will have means to contact you with some juicy offer
Ok... the menu wasn't offset enough to stand out enough as a sub menu. Again, I'm using IE7, which is in beta, so I'm always cautious about stating problems.
What I mean by borked is, the images are showing up larger than the space you proved for the main content (the gray area in the center). So the image appears under the menu. I'll get a screenie and post it for you.
It was doing it in Firefox also actually... I checked after posting the image. I can look at the code for you, but one thing that you can do is make a smaller image to click into a larger one like you did on your front page. I'm guessing your code is implimenting a IE only supported command though.
Happens in Opera and Firefox also. I'd be surprised if that doesn't happen in another browser, cause I had the same problem before, and seen it happening on Nucleus blog as well. I think it's just because of absolute positioning or widths in CSS which can then cause one element to draw on top of the other. Try changing the style that determines the width of your content box, and giving some more pixels for width to fit your images in. Or make images smaller. Or get rid of that inner box, it's really small to fit any content but thumbs in it. Or try to move the menu somewhere else, maybe all the way to the left.
The following may depend on whether you want a blog or a portfolio. Also, if you are using the free hosting you won't be able to edit the templates, so you'll not be able to drop the sidebar.
In the top menu, drop the 'Home' link - thats handled by your title and everyone knows the title links to the front page. Don't they?
Drop 'Leave me a message' - thats what email is for, unless you want comments on your posts.
Links? Do you want links from a portfolio? I'd bin them.
Portfolio. Thats the same link as 'Home' Drop it, maybe drop 'Home' and replace it with portfolio.
That leaves you top menu as 'Portfolio' 'CV' 'A little bit about me'. 'ALBAM' is very ladiback - again, is this a job seeking portfolio? 'About Me' or even 'Biography' might read better.
The side menu? Bin it. You've accomplished it in your thumbnails anyway.
Comments are closed? Good idea - but don't even bother to tell peple that - just ditch the comment code from the template.
cheers for the tips, i havent invested the fifteen dollars yet to edit the templates =Z but its already bearing fruits, which im pretty damn excited about. so ill look at it when ive got time. ill do the other bits that i can now.
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The use of pages thus using WP as a CMS is good - but do you need the comments section?
Also, you might want to try using one of the built-in styled themes until you get your custom css in place.
Also, what exactly is a 'blogroll'? I'd say avoid web2.0 geek talk as much as possible, your target is ADs and artists, not hyped kids! Same thing on the comments and other clickable blogish things - turn them off as much as you can!
Can't wait to see all your recent works on display there!
I normally assume that basic html is in everyone's library of knowledge, but I understand the majority of people don't spend the time getting to know it. I'd say head on over the something like www.htmlgoodies.com and check out some of their tutorials/code snippets.
I think you can still leave it simple, but add in some of your work on each page or make a header image with a collage of your work.
there is actually a theme in there, just a mega simple one that i was gonna edit but until i do i will change.
prior good call on the blogroll, i dont know what it means either, quick investigate and its just a links page really... will change.
will redo the water mark.
oh and prior will try to get a linkable image front end when i figure out how to do it. html aint my first language by a very long way.
ps didnt realise that image linked to photobucket hmmmm.
When I first started I love Lissa Explains It All http://www.lissaexplains.com
It was not completely coherent back when I used it but it started from zero in a steb by step manner, always nice!
I'm sure youll make somethig great out of your page. Now we are watching!
thanks for the link prior, its already been a load of help.
I'd get rid of those little pages boxes on each page, they are cluttered clutter. Change "home" to "portfolio" and get rid of all the other links in the main menu besides CV, Links and Leave a message.
edit: whoa, is everything changing as I wrote this? it looks all over the place now.
changing home to portfolio as we speak unfortunatly i dont think i can edit which pages are displayed =Z ill see what i can do.
it should have settled down a bit now.
As for your watermark, I think you would be better off to put your name and email on your images instead of a logo, as that way when someone saves your image off the net will have means to contact you with some juicy offer
theme
page stucture
got rid of image links to photobucket
any complaints =P
think i will use this look till i get a good enough grasp of CCS to fuck it up, i mean make it cool
Edit: Your high poly cars (Actually, all pages) gets borked with the menu in IE7. I haven't verified in another browser.
the menus are off to the left by one space as they are sub menu of portfolio page
What I mean by borked is, the images are showing up larger than the space you proved for the main content (the gray area in the center). So the image appears under the menu. I'll get a screenie and post it for you.
Edit: Here you go -
[img]http://www.tacmod.com/images/notman/Messy Menu.jpg[/img]
if any one else gets the same prob please tell so i can see if its a big prob.
check out the video on the porco page is it embedded correctly on your machines
Maybe something like this?
What I suggest is simply having 2 templates, one with the side menu and one without.
Or do you ever need the sidebar?
In the top menu, drop the 'Home' link - thats handled by your title and everyone knows the title links to the front page. Don't they?
Drop 'Leave me a message' - thats what email is for, unless you want comments on your posts.
Links? Do you want links from a portfolio? I'd bin them.
Portfolio. Thats the same link as 'Home' Drop it, maybe drop 'Home' and replace it with portfolio.
That leaves you top menu as 'Portfolio' 'CV' 'A little bit about me'. 'ALBAM' is very ladiback - again, is this a job seeking portfolio? 'About Me' or even 'Biography' might read better.
The side menu? Bin it. You've accomplished it in your thumbnails anyway.
Comments are closed? Good idea - but don't even bother to tell peple that - just ditch the comment code from the template.
I'm still not a big fan of the layout, but that isn't what you are really displaying, so I'd leave it
here
very cool i think.