JustinBroshears

I would not put his age on the site. Even though he may have the skills to produce, it can hurt him in the long run. Most people have a misconception of young people and feel they are not responsible or business oriented.
The overall design is nice, however, not unique. If his target is website designers, I believe it needs to be professional but with an edge. As far as content it looks as if you are heading in the right direction with the menu. But what exactly does he offer, what services and skills does he have? Why should he be chosen over a competitor? The answer to these questions only he can answer. I like the color scheme, it works very well. I would like to see his portfolio.

Hi Luke

The star ratings are low just because there obviously isn't much to go on yet.

The design looks nice, simple and clean so far. The navigation is nice and understated and the typography in the intro is nicely thought out although maybe think about making it a tiny bit larger so the top of the type and the bottom baseline align with the top and bottom of the View Portfolio button on the right. Also look at the space around the view Portfolio button and make it a little more even.

As far as content goes. I found this on what a front end developer does: It may give some starter ideas on stuff to put in:

http://www.onlinetools.org/articles/fed2.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/insideguardian/2009/sep/28/blogpost

http://www.idesignstudios.com/blog/web-design/phases-web-design-development-process/

I think whether to keep his age in will depend on the work he has to show. If the work is amazing and he can fully hold his own then leave the age out. Otherwise it may help to put it in as he will be in the market for work where people are happy to pay less for someone less experienced.

Hi Luke, your sites design has been used on many sites (it seems to be a popular template floating around at the moment), while I will admit you have made some changes to it, I think people would recognise the similarities and reuse of another template. Furthermore I agree with the other posters, leave your age off, it cant hurt you to leave it off, most people belive that age means capability which is not always true. I do like your name inbetween the < and >, it looks quite neat and the overall site seems to be coherant and simalarly styled, well done on that part.

Hi Luke, from what you are displaying here this seems like it will be a good design. Here is what I think will keep it going in a good direction:

1. Make the read feature area clear. The background you have right now makes it hard for your readers to read the content you have in this area. By choosing a more solid color, it will increase the focus of this site's visitors and make it easier on them to do the normal glance through and walk away with the general concept of the passage. Also, the same goes for the "view portfolio" button.

2. Reduce the size of the hover background in the nav bar. I think taking some pixels off will make it look better.

3. Mentioning his age is like a double edged sword. As a designer and front end developer of the same age of your client, I've learned that the mentioning of age has its pros and cons.

Pros: may impress some clients that he is career focused at a young age, may bring in more clients because they think he is more suited for their small projects, may get to have friendlier then average relationships with a good percentage of his clients and if his work is good, people may want to work with him now because of how skilled he may become.

Cons: some clients will try to save money and attempt and get him to doing an under payed project, people may only want to work with him because he can be easily manipulated by them, they may not respect his business as they would an older freelancer and try to implement an adult child relationship to the business he will be conducting with them when it is not necessary.

Overall I like where this is going and will be interested to see it with some content.

I like the colours and contrast between the text and background and the professionally element of what you have done. I would say however that this concept isn't very original and looks a little 'templatey'. There perhaps could be some sort of fade/design in the background or a little more detail - but generally, you are letting the content speak for it'self which is a good thing for showing off your work. Choice of fonts very good.

It looks clean and fine, but it lacks originality. Could be a ready made template...