Web Design Portfolio, RethinkingCode.com

I like the idea to use a big header to blow away your visitor. But this one is a bit too heavy. i'd rather see great visuals of your work, instead of the (absolutely great - on it's own) visual now.

I think the design is very well selected and there is nothing to change. Well done

The "my work" areas are really eye-catching and great. That said, the first page was loading and loading forever. I think you should look at how a simpler, lighter design would affect your bounce rate, as I don't think a lot of people have the patience anymore for long load times. Also the sub menu "Design Development Artwork" is a bit easy to miss.

Congratulations!!!

Catchy, beautiful, modern, original

the design is perfect. the color contrasts are great. very good organization of concepts.

nice template

wonderful :) beautiful photo. beautiful background. everything fits perfectly. CONGRATZ!

have the about picture different from contact one.

Love the underwater effect on home page! and like the way you have done the WORK page, nice stuff there. every thing looks cool except the overlapping 3 boxes (Learn & Share, lead, etc.). and i think too many type faces are used, what about limit them to two or 3 max. :) like those sites in your portfolio too, some neat work there.

i like the soft nature feel to the site

I like the persistence of the footer materials and the presence of light radiating from the top of the page, then down into the photo on the front page.

Good contrast, and use of color.

Man this is really nice :) Maybe with rounded corners...no its nice :)

I like the design. It is very attractive. This light from the sky captures attantion so that one does not go away. Then it is clear and simple what to do here in this site. The only thing that i doubt is the black background a lttlle bit dark impression.

First thing that really stood out on a first glance was when I hit the contact page and seen the text "Thanks for visiting" which doesn't seem to marry up well with your photo. The text says Thanks but the Picture suggests disconnect and impersonality. Perhaps have a more upbeat image here, and play around with ones where you are looking at the camera (user) to reinforce that personal thanks that you are looking to offer.

Aside from that, just want to check that you would have alternatives to the flash content on the site, in the interest of cross-compatibility.

Rest looks good though! :)

The first and third screen shot are the best.

the live link was down so was only able to look at the comps :(

this is your portfolio, but it took me a while to notice the work link, should be more prominent on the hp - the page was really nice once i got there though!

The top navigation coul be adjustet, try to pull up a bit the fonts.

Adjust also the padding of the images related to the right border.

Really nice site ;) maybe it's just me or not but i would try to make the green background on the navigation bar solid green without any alpha channel ;) but that's the only think that dont fit for me on that page otherwise good job ;)

A very nice and attractive design.......

looks great on the screen shots, I'm just sorry I couldn't take a closer look on your website, it wrote me it's not working anymore :/ but this pictures are great :)

good effort

Right now it seems like a design I've seen done over and over. While it's nice, and you definitely have skill, I'd like to see you explore the elements on the page. Try to rework the design through sketching (maybe two to three iterations). Do some research, look at other types of design outside of web and see what you come up with.

Don't forget about your vertical screen real estate, some of your elements are way to big. I'd love to see you be more original ,you have a some awesome stuff.

Great design, and l love the background! I feel a little disconnected from the menu though.

The colours seem a bit off, better to stick with black/grey/white. Also, it's too bare-bones for my taste.

Needs to be slightly brighter and greener

I like it! Its nice and clean and not to cluttered. Great work.

I just wont to say its nice template design. Beautiful image on header, but I don`t like that dark wood background, sorry :)

In my opinion the typographic for social media it's not ok. And I Think the background could be a little less dark

Awesome site! Very professional looking. It drew my eye to it right away on a page with many other designs. Very nice work.

very modern and beautiful layout.

asking me if i'd change one thing what would it be...hmmmm

I'd say the box. make the design run horizontal all the way to the edges. If you look at this on a very large landscape monitor it will take away from the square design shape big time. a 24" monitor goes for $150 these days so everyone, and their grandma, have one.

Somebody is parking the domain.

I think the hero should say something other than "welcom to the online portfolio of thomas tate." Plus, I think you should use proper capitalization for your name.

good

I can only base my review off your screenshots for the link rethinkingcode.com does not work. This is definitely something I would suggest you fix. See attached screenshot, for this is what I see when I visit your site.

Overall, the site looks clean and well thought out. The site flows well and the colours, graphics and fonts seem to work really well with eachother. Great site, job well done!

Looking good. Love the subtleness of the layout in general.

This is just great stuff. I tried to visit the URL, however, and got a spammy site. My main concern was whether you were using web fonts for your copy ("Learn & Share", "welcoem to the…" etc) . I'm worried about search engines not picking up some keywords like "portfolio" or even "Thomas Tate" in case someone google's you.

Small niggles. The "My Work" web site inset (with the white background) doesn't look quite right. I top and bottom gray shading doesn't seem right and the drop shadow on the button seams off. Maybe the light source isn't clear. I know that's not too helpful, but hopefully you'll just take a second look.

Best of luck!

woow, that looks pretty nice!

Great design loving it, it is maybe a bit standard but very well executed.

really clean, good textures, very simple. no bad things to say.

I love the wood background and the big image on the home page, I think the Learn & Share Etc below makes it a little busy. Particularly since it is on every page. The home page image wants to be sexy and draw you in, but it isn't quite there due to the info below.

Like the over all design except design of the big headings.

I think the site and navigation is really creative and engaging. I agree with what a few others said and that is the photo of yourself repeated on 2 and 4 is a little redundant. There has to be another image you can use on one of them.

I really like that you have the easy navigation at the top, and the extra navigation at the bottom is a great idea, but does get a bit redundant for me at times. Just be careful, because it can distract a bit from the top of the page at times. I keep wanting to go down there to see if anything is different from the other pages.

Other than that, I love it.

Otherwise I think this is excellent. nice visible calls to action.

awesome theme, very impressive, greate work!

Really nice work. I like the 'my work' page with the grass and birds. The images really stand out with the black and gray background, but you would notice that because the images are so nice

I really like the overall concept. I'm a lot into the wood background.. very pretty.

The "rolling" hover state on facebook and twitter seems a little confusing at first, so i guess that is one thing that i personally would change to maybe slowly fading in some color with jquery.

There is nothing wrong with the fonts in the animation.. i personally would use a little more exciting fonts, though :-)

Overall.. very good job!

The website is nice, but looks basic.

Fantastic - Love it!

It's a little dark - I'd change the image behind 'welcome to the online portfolio' to something a little lighter.

This is great! Gives an underwater look, engages the viewer and very original. I like the darkness and color choices. Great job.

Very nice design,i am little confuse with Lead & Follow,always stuck and some times the rollover is 2 fast. Follow on twitter you have in your footer so i thing is better remove it from there.. Again is Very nice design!!

I really think you are on to something good here. My only suggestion would be to reduce the flash loading times as much as possible. It took a while to load. I really like the portfolio page and about page. Great design

I like the background texture, it serves well to showcase the content.

I would like to see more content on the homepage

It looks like it is only one layout, with different flash files in the banner section. Looks too static, i think it needs a different content in each page, more rhythm!

I would avoid the use of flash.

Nice navigation hover effect. Nice Background image.

The landing page is epic. Very engaging site. It's a good combination of showing your website design skills to potential clients while still making it personal and paired with the appropriate content. By the way, I didn't have a problem with load time, mine was fine, very fast. Normally I don't like a lot of flash but this is fun.

I really like the dark wood texture. Really nice. Modern and beautiful.

a bit to dark

BEAUTIFUL IN EVERY PARTS, JUST THE BACKGROUND IS TOO COMMON, CHANGE BACKGROUND AND IT WILL BE AMAZING

Very nice Template, I love it.

Stunning actually! The website managed to instantly engage me, wanting to know more.

One thing: The "Welcome to the online portfolio..." could be a bit more, hmm, I don't know: punchy? Not sure how I'd go about it though. I understand you're reasoning to keep it all lower-case. Like the font as well. Hmm. Perhaps spread over 2 lines? I'm not sure.

Some really minor things (small layout stuff):

Learn & share | Lead & Follow | Point & Shoot. --> Learn & share feels to small left-margin to me. Perhaps aligning the background of Learn & share with 'showcase of 53..' instead of how it is now, would do the job. Similarly for the others.

I feel the line-height of the body teaser-text "package designing is useful" is a bit to big. Is it 20 px now? try reducing it to 18. To me, the same line-height for the teaser-title and teaser-body come across as a bit uninteresting in this case.

Otherwise, really good job!

This is an awesome site, I love it great work, the screen shots don't do it justice!

Great Job!

This is wonderful, I love the treatment on the head, very very fun. I personally didn't care on the load time and I am on a decent connection 6Mb connection.

Aside from the fact I get bothered by Flash navigation, I think all that looks wonderful.

The titles for the blocks below seem to get lost in my vision. Perhaps I am just going blind but it was somewhat hard to see the tiles.

Really really enjoyed how you handled your portfolio, very enjoyable.

Overall, wonderful design!

The concept is great

Not that mines better, but you look a tad unhappy ;) Rest is awesome as others have pointed out. Very 2.0, but still keeping that creative edge.

The site looks good and I like the colors. I like the blackish anyway. I would like to know what program you used to build this site. Nice job

I really like the design you have here. The first one is a great concept, but I think the imagery could be better. I am not a big fan of any of the images that you have used. You need a really gripping image. Also, I wouldn't overlap the image with the headings. Move them down under the image. Other than that, great work!

the header green box that follows the mouseover... i think you can come up with something lovelier... maybe light shining up from below? the underwater video is beautiful.. and the stylization of your name on the top left is great. maybe use that box outline for the rollovers or visited page indicators? the footer needs rollovers too i think, maybe just a pretty green glow? your about picture might be a little too elasticy on its entrance.. overall, i really love this, it looks great. i like how the letters float around in the water as well. dont forget to do something cool with your favicon too~

I agree with miranda, she? hit every thought I had! The main one for me was your picture's bounce.. just a little much I think.

This is really great so much stronger and cleaner than your last!

i like colour combination

Nothing to change. Gr8 work. Keep Rocking!

It feels like you have too many fonts and themes here. Lead and follow, welcome to the online portfolio, and Wanna network dont seem to have any connection...

Good structure, background and colors. Easy to navigate. I think your name/logo could be more visible.

Good Work!! The design is a little common, but the functionality of the site is simply superb! Well done!

Hi

Good job, nice portfolio. I'll just resize images in work section, make them bigger for more readability.

Bye !

Wow... this is probably the most simple review I would have to do. It's pretty much peach perfect already. In short, it's good to go mate!

I especially love the dual word segmentation, of Learn & Share, Lead & Follow, Point & Shoot... with the latter reminding me of my point and shoot camera... oh they're just so convenient to use over those fussy DSLRs.

I love how the site loads fast as well despite it's engaging flash elements. It just blends well overall. Easy on the eyes and easy to use. Well done Tate!