Portfolio website

I really like this quite a bit. It's very different, elegant and quite creative. Here are just a few comments I have:

1. The logo is next to imposable to read. I would make it MUCH more readable.
2. The three columns of text, what i do...a little about me...a good design recipe could use some help in the typography department. The small column widths make the text really staggered in some places and in general all of your text could you some more line height. I also don't like how you bold several words throughout the sentence, you use it so much that it loses it's effect.

As for everything else, love it! Very nice job here!

Why the "about me" section is not on the nav? It took me 10 min to find it in the "footer". The rest is really ok. Smart use of JQuery and every section is well set apart. I'm just not very happy with the "@".. but it's little thing.

Overall the design is nice, neutral colours supported by the green works very well. It carries a professional message about your self and your work.

As mentioned your welcome message is not "above the fold", this means you have to scroll down a little to read it, maybe not a massive disaster, however you then lose the top navigation and looking for navigation across the bottom is not a normal user trait.

When you do go on your navigation you can click "down" to go to the next section" or "top" which takes you right back to the top, why do you not have an "up" link to take you to the previous section?

Vita:

This is great stuff. Very different look than what I usually see – I like it!

Here are a few things that I would fix:

1. On your scrolling buttons, the words "top" and "bottom" are not necessary. The buttons are fairly self explanatory. You have a minimal approach, and I think this would help simplify (nitpicky, I know, but hey, that's what we do, right?).

2. The very last thing the viewer sees (ideally) at the very bottom is Thank you for stopping by. That's fine, except for the fact that it is in a completely different typeface than anything else in your site. Sure, it matches your design motif to a degree, but since you did not incorporate it anywhere else, it looks awkward and out of place. The reason I am harping on this is because this is your last impression for your viewer - unbranded. I would take it out completely.

3. The position of the navigation is understandable since it stays at the bottom of the screen. However, it is not in an obvious place. First time users will have trouble finding it initially. I like your minimalistic style, but maybe you should consider a second navigation under your logo, just above the white line of your header.

4. The rollovers on your top buttons are cool. I think a neat added touch would be to animate those green balls going down. It would add to your scrolling theme and give a subtle reinforcement to the way you have presented your website.

5. Finally, the copy near the bottom of the fold, " What I do, A little bit about me, A Good Design Recipe," they need to be consistent. Make them all follow headline guidelines. In other words, capitalize the "d" in do, capitalize the first letters of "little, bit, about, me." This will make a world of difference for a professional appearance.

Overall, this is great work. There are other things, but I won't bother mentioning them as they have already been addressed in the above comments.

Hope this helps!

Very nice, but a few quirks. I find the colours very cold and uninviting. Maybe if the green wasn't so electric, or the gray so steel-like.

I can't read the logo at all.

The contact me is very hidden. Since the purpose is first and foremost for people to contact you if they like what they see, I would make it easy for people to find.

I would also make an obvious portfolio button, or something of that sort. I'm not sure where to click to see your stuff.

I think you have enough room in the white space to raise the 3 text boxes a bit so they aren't below the fold, yet still keep the nice white space. It just bothers my eye if I have to scroll to that text.

Otherwise it's very nice and easy enough to turn into a great design.

I really like the airy feeling of this and love your logo. But I think there is too much spacing around the "Welcome to..." text that pushes the start of your content too far down on the page. The pearl/flower logo is nice, but I'd like to see a few a blue(?) shades in there to break up the monotone feel of it (but only on the flower).

I'm hooked on 1px lines and think that would make it crisper if you did one between the grey/white areas (header/footer) instead of the thicker line you have.

Really love this design. I think if you can manage to add another color and some subtle texture in the background of the header, it will make it even better.

Great work.

nice layout, but i think i should be some informative

Before saying anything I want to say say that this is a very beautiful web site: it is very feminine but not girlie ;-}. The green you choose is great: vibrant and alive, almost radioactive. The little flower/leafs look like paper cutouts.

This is just me but on the flower itself the only thing that it is not working is the circle. It doesn't have the same quality that the leaves. The leaves have this flat, slight 3D, look to them whereas the circle is very rounded and it doesn't seem to be connected to the leaves. What do you think?

Again, the web site is great, but... the text boxes "What I do", "A little about me" are still not working with the rest of the design. The two column change you did still fells disconnected. I can see the structural vertical "invisible lines" between "web design" and "a little about me", but the text underneath the label seem lost. What if you reduced the negative space between "Welcome" and "What I do" ? If the text goes over the tips of some petals that is ok! That would kill the problem with 1024 x 768 (even though it is not the end of world). Maybe some horizontal line on that space (very subtle) just to give some more structure to that area. You could you some of your "shadow" like horizontal cuts, or even bringing the theme of the flower to the text boxes...somehow.

Congratulations, you are a wonderful designer.

I have no complaints about the design itself. I really like it, works well for a portfolio site, my only complaint is I cant make out what your logo says, its a little too complicated.