A Review of Portfolio website by Stephanie Smith

Lovely design

  • Stephanie Smith

    Stephanie Smith

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    Lovely design

    Posted on Apr 20, 2010 at 9:03 AM

    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.

    • Stephanie Smith
      Stephanie Smith commented:
      Posted: on Apr 20, 2010 at 9:08 AM

      oof just looked at the live site instead of just the jpg LOL... I see the 3 boxes are a bit higher live, that's better, but I still hate that I have to scroll to read all 3. Shorten text a bit to fix, maybe?

      Love the functionality.

    • Vita Levchenko
      Vita Levchenko commented:
      Posted: on Apr 20, 2010 at 2:11 PM

      Stephanie, I appreciate your feedback. I created cold color scheme intentionally... just because I got tired of doing family-friendy-warm colors each day and kind of wanted to do something different :-). I realize that we do websites for users not for ourselves but I was thinking I would have fun with it and then start changing two color scheme periodically, just by switching stylesheets. The contact button issue concerns me. You are right that it's important one. I have to think about something there. Based on feedback I am getting I believe I'll need to re-think my navigation concept. Thank you!