Cheers NANAND78.
It's been up since October last year and I was surprised that only two people have had trouble using it. I deliberately put the disks right next to the abyss so that they didn't have too far to drag!!!!
Very nice site. It looks clean and professional but still has a unique approach. A few comments. The dark music and dark tone (i.e. "the abyss") don't match the stark white background. i might try something darker. Since the site takes up so little of the window, i think this would look good as a pop-up. Also, i closed the window and reopened it, and it downloaded all the data again, it should be in my cache. It wasn't a long wait, but it seemed a little odd. But i must reiterate, it looks really nice just the way it is. If you're happy with it, don't change it because of my comments. Great Work!! Makes my site look boring.
Thanks for the feedback, guys. I would have responded sooner, but the mailer didn't tell me I had any replies!
I've been looking into re-hashing the site since it was a rush-job when I first found myself on the market and looking for work a year ago (hence using a dingbat font for speed). I've just been too busy doing commercial work to spare the time to work on my own portfolio and brand design etc!! Guess I should be thankful for that!
I guess I'd like to see a little more going on. The abyss idea is cool, but what's the purpose of it? Why is there an abyss on your site? What is the meaning of dropping the disks down it to load the sections? You should probably provide a little more complete context for all of that.
Very nice site, very interesting portfolio. But at first, I couldn't get how to launch any section... The nav izn't simple enough. On the whole, quite good!
I don't think the wider context of the abyss is important. In a site which was telling some kind of story, it probably would be, but for me it offered an alternative to simply clicking buttons.
The site is a year old next month, and I'm about to begin building a new one. By posting this one here, I was trying to guage what worked and what didn't work in this one, rather than looking for ways to improve it.
I think I made the mistake of trying to do something a bit different, but internet audiences are becoming just like TV audiences, and find it difficult to understand ideas that stray from the path. It's a shame really, as the interactivity in web design is being lost.
My next portfolio should probably be a plain, straight forward pictures-in-a-box website, no bull****, no confusion, just pointless eye candy.
In "The Business" section fix the first sentence."My can vary..." when describing your rates. Other than that your work is pretty tight, You can draw quite well and your Flash skills are solid. Keep up the good work. Great to hear you've been bringing in alot of work recently. Nice site.
Site looks great! Only thing that bothers me is that it does NOT fit my window in IE. Rather than having your movie at a fixed size, why not set it at 100% in your HTML that way your movie will fit any window size!
The website is at a fixed size so as to keep pixel fonts crisp. I was aiming for an average screen resolution of 1024 x 768. Very few of my visitors have a screen any smaller than this.
The other thing you have to bear in mind is my target audience, which is mostly other design studios - who tend to work at higher resolutions.
