A Review of Website design for personal portfolio by Dave Wood

OK let's start from the top...

1. The branding is a bit bland and unoriginal. You're a designer and creative so every element on your website should prove this to a potential client.
2. I would increase the size of the navigation a bit, the subtitles are too small to read easily so certainly make these larger.
3. The alignment doesn't work for me. The left of the branding should align with the left of the main content (with the boxes of images). I would increase the size of each box so that everything aligns vertically.
4. The footer layout would look better following the layout of your main content. Split the information you have in the footer in to three separate columns and align with the content above.
5. Black is such a dead 'colour'. It sucks the life out of everything... Not that you have much colour on the page anyway...
6. ADD SOME COLOUR! You're taking away so much from your designs by showing them in black and white... they aren't black and white so why show them in black and white? Just makes them look dull.
7. I also don't really like the limey green colour, it's not strong enough to balance with the amount of black.
8. Finally, I'd consider setting up a personal twitter and business/professional twitter - your clients aren't going to want to know about your likes and dislikes, social going on etc.

Hope at least some of these points help.