Website/Portfolio

I'm going to respectfully disagree with Oliver and say that in my opinion, you're trying to do too much. It is not minimalism imo. What was this going to be coded with? Flash? CSS? Definitely ambitious, and could actually turn out to be a GREAT site worthy of being in books. But, it definitely needs more work, thought, and patience. Could work on the illustrations in the second screen shot (i.e. the mug, monitor, and desk). Good start, great idea, good reap great rewards if you see it through!

Hello Travis, i love the idea that what you got on your mind and transfered it to design. Sometimes i found working with real life elements on a web design very risky, but you managed it in a cool way. At first design tell us "here we go, are you ready?" and we are wondering about what next? Impressed...

I see where you are going with the style website. Me personally find these the hardest to design. I do not like the way the nav looks at all. Its to blended in and kinda looks like its a messed up sentence. I dont get y there is blue on the top of the screen. I would change the background to look more like a desk. I see where you are going with this and i really like those kind of websites. Keep up the good work

Nice bold approach! I think the mixed-medium look is fantastic, and you obviously have the talent to pursue this kind of design...though it still needs work.

Positive: your simple, minimalist approach works well with the overall design. This supports your objective to highlight people's art. Not sure if you're intending to use a flash graphic to flip pages of the pad, but that might be fun.

Negative: the second page in particular looks thrown together. It's going to need quite of bit of work to carry off the mixed-medium look. The computer image appears pasted in, like it doesn't really belong there yet. And I'd greatly simplify whatever you are hoping to include on that computer screen image--people are already viewing it on THEIR computer screens. Go with simple and clean.

One last idea: it seems that your first/home page needs something of an identifiable logo. Obviously you don't want it to distract from the art of the person you are highlighting, but viewers will likely want to know something about you, your company, etc.

You have an ok concept on the front page even if it is not really my style. I would center the content box and make the repeating background blend in better. As for the secondary pages, they are confusing. What is the difference between the portfolio and images of work? There seems to be a lot of dead links. Overall, you need to sit down and think of a consistent design to repeat all over the website and then optimize images so your pages can load faster.

Hi Travis, the design is not my style but it could be nice. I went to the actual site, and it is TOO slow. The navigation is not helpful, because it moves all around from page to page... something is design, but you are forcing your user to search for stuff and not help them in that matter.

The first navigation/menu the elements looks in disorder or weirdly placed. Looks like bar at the beginning and buttons at the end. Make the separation space the same for everything there (erase it or make it bigger).

I have a big screen and when seeing it there, the design was crying to be in the center!

In the frontpage, the jpg files are in too low resolution, specific to the "For an exhuastive..." it gets quite confusing.

To sum up. If I were you, I will create only one design/template and make the background change as it already does, but make it change in the same way... right now jumping from the "homepage" to the "Misc" page... well it feels like are too different worlds/mood or something.

You are different but I like it after all.

The desktop theme is a new theme going around the net, but your take is to simple. Your images look way to shopped and generic.

I think the concept is great, but nothing jumps at me saying I design great stuff. I think you are headed in the right direction, but you need to try to step away from the blandness of the background as well as the desk.

very nice

I really like the top design and I want to see more.

You can have someone code this page and help you with maybe some secondary navigation. The site is not loading, I gave it a low "purpose" score for this.

The second page would be fun, but it looks like you would have to use Flash or javascript to implement this.

You must have great work, Deviant art is always neat to look at.

Wow, this page is making doing some heavy loading! I get the sense of a good idea to start with, but a hell to finish. It just feels like it's designed just to be designed. I like the start page though, if it would load faster. Nice illustration.

Going to be quite negative as it isn't really my style. It seems you have gone very minimalist in the presentation value of this design and haven't really put much thought into the spacing of navigation elements.

Obviously you have your style and if that works for you then great but I'm not sure its going to work well with the vast majority of people, and I'm afraid that is what gets you work.

However good luck!