My Digital Playground

First thing's first: I love the vibrant use of color with your header; all in all, the design as a whole is a huge step forward from your site's current design.

There are really only 3 minor things I'd consider changing:

1) Looking at the typeface used for your teaser, I can't help but feel the x-height feels a touch squished (due to stretching); compared to the more open feel of the rest of the type choices you've made, it feels wrong and out of place.

2) It's a minor thing but for the latest images at the bottom, have you considered switching the order of the image title & the category (i.e. 'animations' comes first instead of 'Character Design Timelapses')?

Other than that, I have to say, it's a pretty awesome piece of work. I look forward to seeing it up on your site, mainly so I can see how you plan on extending it throughout the interior pages.

Cheers Tom

I think all of this is working pretty well. The site is consistent, clean and creative. The header isn't quite aligned correctly. I might lose the header image and just make the introduction paragraph more visually appealing and span the entire width of the page.I would also add a subtle drop shadow to the page and fade it out after the header. It would add just a little dimension. Great work, let me know if you have any more questions, thanks!

This is by far my favourite version of your site design so far.

It feels much more balanced and the block elements below are now balancing and reflecting your header design. I also like your sketch to finished version in the top left.

The only thing which jars for me is your Hey I'm Joe part and it's a slight thing. Maybe try ranging it left and align the left edge of the text with the left side of your tutorial images. I can see that you've tried to balance it with the part of your sketch which overhangs on the right but the edge of your green character aligns with the right edge of the tutorial images so it should work. Maybe also make that text jsut a little smaller and watch the kerning. The space between the 'J' and the 'o' is large compared to the 'o' and 'e'.

But overall great design. Really like how you've worked each version of your design and the improvement along the way.

Like the menu idea and colors, and the idea of the oppacity. the paragraph font I don´t like. It seams a little streatched. Could ad some interesting content at the footer, with some illustrations, social media links, menus. Make it more usefull. Like the little shadow at the thumbs and the contrast of the thumbs with the background. Could try something different at the top drawing. The bars in front of the eyes are a little distracting.

compared to your current website, this one is leaps and bounds above.

I really like your header, my only concern is the links below may be overpowered by the large letters and bold colouring above.

The blurb text looks squashed, but that might be just my eyes :D.

I love it. Pretty everything looks great, except for the "Hey, I'm Joe..." paragraph. The stretching looks really cheap.

Oh I just love this design! The header is so cool and I love all the bright colours.

What I immediately noticed though, is the letter spacing of "Hey, I'm Joe and ... ". So with less letter spacing and perhaps adjusting the hight of the letters as well it'll be just perfect.

Also the links "More animations >", "More illustrations >", ... could work when being a little bigger as well. Try it out and see if it makes any difference.

I agree with Felipe that there's an opportunity in the footer. Some buttons for people to share, or a nice "cry for feedback" button. Either way, I suggest an image (like one of your little creatures) to "jump out" of the grid (which nicely structures the page, btw).

Great job!

Great use of colors, vibrant and engaging.

like the header's colours and 3 steps under header it cool imo

Your design is very original, but the purpose of the site does not seem to jump out at me. Perhaps rephrasing your interest paragraph to say something along the lines of "Hey, i'm Joe and i design webpages for clients" or something would be better.

Love this design it's ubercool!

The site looks very orignal :) Like it very much :) Pretty colorful and minimal too :)

Although , the font of Joe seems a bit stretched , a change in font ???

It seems like it should be a grid based design but each section is doing it's own thing; none of the vertical lines from the header match up to blocks of space in the blurb area nor with the thumbnail area. Alignment is a bit chaotic.

Not crazy about the bg colors. I think white would look crisper in the main body section.

I really like the header - strong and interesting!