New portfolio site. Ideas thoughts?

[Seahorsepip Veteran]

I'm working on a new portfolio design and I'm interested in what you people think about it ^^

The link to the site http://seahorsepip.us

The site is optimized for mobile devices too, you can see how it looks on a mobile device just by making the window size of your browser smaller ^^

I'm maybe planning to sell it on themeforrest but I'm still thinking about that...

P.S.

Ignore the empty social tab, I'm working on that at the moment ;)

[Dan~]

Not to my taste at all.

Looks very bland, too small, nothing really happening.

If I was a potential client and I saw your website I wouldn't bother too much.

My comments might sound harsh, but you want my opinion :)

[Seahorsepip Veteran]

Not to my taste at all.

Looks very bland, too small, nothing really happening.

If I was a potential client and I saw your website I wouldn't bother too much.

My comments might sound harsh, but you want my opinion :)

It's a vcard, those sites are meant to look small and minimal...

[Phouchg]

Overall, I like the looks and the minimalism idea. Sure, it might not attract enterprises, which, however, I believe, isn't even the target audience.

I have to concur with Dan - the text size is too small, indeed. Also, probably a bit too light.

I'd suggest adding zoom function to images unless you already had that in mind.

[Clearskies]

I love it! It's very clean, very minimalist. The colour of the text is a bit too light, though; it's somewhat hard to read.

[-KJ]

It looks nice as a vcard, but there's nothing on there that really makes me want to contact you if I were looking for a graphics or designer/coder. Flesh out your portfolio section and please up the contrast some more! It looks washed out as it is. :)

[nattpyre]

I like it! NIce and clean. But, like ClearSkies said, the font is a bit too light.

Not sure if this is something that happened only here, but when I go from the other tabs to the "work" tab the entire thing.. kinda wiggles (jumps to the left, then goes back to normal). It doesn't occur when I navigate from the work tab to any of the others. (Firefox 8)

[Joshie]

For what it is, I like it, but I have a suggestion:

The transition between tabs is both slow and unnatural for the metaphor (flipping through tabs). It might (I only have my imagination for this) feel better if clicking another tab caused the current tab to roll ('open') downward, revealing the tab you clicked. Much like a page-turn animation, but vertical. This way you aren't splitting the transition into two animations (roll up, then roll down), but one single unified transition.

The only issue is that each of your tabs is a different size, which means you'd either have to make every tab uniform, or think up something clever I haven't.

[primexx]

I like how you did the small screen-to-large screen transition.

[ghostrider86]

Looks great! Good work. :)

[Seahorsepip Veteran]

I like it! NIce and clean. But, like ClearSkies said, the font is a bit too light.

Not sure if this is something that happened only here, but when I go from the other tabs to the "work" tab the entire thing.. kinda wiggles (jumps to the left, then goes back to normal). It doesn't occur when I navigate from the work tab to any of the others. (Firefox 8)

Thats because the scrollbar appears and dissapears ...

edit: added fix for desktops, I can't force the scrollbars on phones since that would create a lot of problems.

[nattpyre]

Thats because the scrollbar appears and dissapears ...

edit: added fix for desktops, I can't force the scrollbars on phones since that would create a lot of problems.

Ah, did not see any scrollbars so didn't think about that.

Works fine now. :)

[Emn1ty]

Most of what I want to say has been said, but there are two things:

1. I'm getting a strange vibration from the background texture. Not sure if its just this crappy monitor or what but you may want to check your site on a few different screens to see if you can catch it. In other areas of the design I also feel its a bit too simple. If you are a developer ok thats fine but if you are trying to sell yourself as a designer you need to up the ante a bit and get some contrast and color in there.

2. Your body copy needs some work. Aside from the low contrast you have lots of spelling errors. That is the last thing you want on a portfolio. If people see a designer who can't spell they probably won't hire you. (for example, the "3years" on the front page). Another thing is you should never tell them about what you don't know. Your mentioning of "learning javascript" isn't necessary. What goes on your portfolio is either "javascript" or nothing.

[ACTIONpack]

I like the animation but everything else is just out dated. Takes me back to 2004. I know your going to the simplify look but it does not pop out.

[Tekkerson]

I have one thing to say:

Contrast.

http://contrastrebellion.com/