pimp my page?
Hey guys!
I just want to show you all my shiny new portfolio / company page! Ain't much content yet and its pretty basic, I am very interested in your first reaction and opinions
Shaperate.se
I just want to show you all my shiny new portfolio / company page! Ain't much content yet and its pretty basic, I am very interested in your first reaction and opinions
Shaperate.se
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Everything looks fine for me.
But in services it is very clear about texture work, realistic and hand painted. But I didn´t see any tileable one...
I am not from a english speaking country, but "Tilable" looks wrong for me.
Maybe some notes on the images with credits and description with what your studio did.
That is all I could find.
Anyway.
All that UI crap around the edges needs to go. It's useless, distracting, it's more work for you and it forces any content you have into a very small area of the screen. Unless people are browsing the internet on a mobile device, they're usually running at AT LEAST 1024x768 these days. Meanwhile, you have all your content packed into a ~600x500 area of the screen. That means you don't get to have big, clear thumbnails and any content that may take up more than that is going to require adding length and/or width to that fancy background image.
And worse than all that, the UI crap makes the page look like it's from the late 90s. I'm half-expecting a sparkly animated GIF to rape my eyes at any second.
A few more things you should consider doing:
- Use bigger thumbnails. This is a portfolio. It's specifically for showing off your best work, so use it for that purpose.
- Get rid of the intro page and instead have the homepage be the gallery. Nobody gives a crap about whether it's a portfolio or not because they already know it is. The only reason people will be there is to look at the pretty pictures, and having a splash page gets in the way of that.
- Put your contact info at the top of each page. Seriously.
- If they aren't under NDA, put some breakdowns of those assets in there. Wireframes, texture sheets, all that jazz.
You have some good work in this portfolio. The characters look solid and the texture work is pretty good. Even with the small number of things you have in there, it's apparent that you have some pretty diverse skills. You just need to make that clear by cleaning up your page and making your work the center of attention.
Edit: Also have to agree with Swizzle, this site has all the symptoms of a late 90s page when people thought web design was about making inefficient graphic intensive sites where 70% of the page was UI and 30% was actual content.
I'd go with a round "light" or apply the glow to the text instead. It would be less jarring that way.
- Gallery (home page) --> you put all your artworks here (no presentation text need)
- About / Resume --> you put your resume in HTML, PDF and/or Word format
- Contact --> you put your e-mail, contact informations (stuffs like LinkedIn buttons)
REALLY important to put your name, people are going to hire YOU by your name, not by your "company" name. Important to put your wireframes and texture sheets, to let people know that you can make optimize models for in-game engines and see how you made them.
i'll have another go at it and see if i can make it cleaner and fix the pointed issues.
I tested this to see if i could make the page itself a portfolio piece, but alas a clear fail :P
agreed needs more work on the site. maybe some 2d work, crafts etc
Also maybe put up some wireframes or so ?
Good luck with it
What do you think about this?
http://www.shaperate.se
I have two known bugs: In internet Explorer the index thumbnails dont line up to the edge. Floatbox scrip in the gallery page dont work in internet explorer either.
@ Tenchi: Thx, the font is Arial though. If its times new roman, the page code is broke on your browser... which is bad
I do have a couple small issues with it, though.
Your resume section would probably be better left as a web page (with your resume in text), with a link at the top to download a PDF of the resume. Right now you're taking the user out of the experience of your site and pushing them into a glaring white loading screen until your resume loads. This knocks the user out of a clean, smooth interface and feels clunky and strange.
Also, I'd separate your individual works into separate web pages. The one whole webpage is far to long, even with the option to go back placed between the pieces (good rule of thumb: don't make the user scroll more than 2 page lengths unless absolutely necessary). Also, if you have the time, add in a little written information about each piece, people like to hear about your process.
Lastly, I took a look at your code, and noticed that the CSS for your site is stored in each page instead of an external style sheet, which can make updating the look of your site a royal pain (having to update each page, as opposed to updating one CSS document). I'd strongly suggest the use of an external style sheet.
Okay, that was longer than I expected. Sorry about that. Good luck with your site
Yes you may be right on this one. I did try to make that earlier tooday, but i failed at doing it nice looking, it looked like a long wrabbeling list, so i minimized it, but then i it just looked lame and cheap so i resorted to this. I will give it another go at it when i recover from feeling of putting 4 hours tinkering in the bin.
Yes i noticed this aswell, but my friends seem to like it. And the floatbox image scrip makes you able to zap through em all in one nice go without scrolling. (this dont work in internet explorer yet for some reason) And they dont seem to bothered by it. but ill ask a bit more people; so i am taking your crits under advicement.
Yes i realized this aswell, i learned html now as i go along, this is like my third attempt to create a page. I tried to place it in a .css file but it refused to run it, (prolly because i dont know much about html) so i got fed up and just placed it at the bottom :P Its only 3 pages so far so its not that big a deal to copy paste, if i change anything