Well the whole Christmas thing is well and truly over now and I’m afraid it’s back to the grind for me. I’ve been busy working on my portfolio site some more, and I’m almost ready to announce it to the world. You can go see it now by clicking the link on the right. I’ve gone for a newspaper style design. This was for a couple of reasons, one: because I also write, two: because it was a unique looking design that tested my skills (?) to the very extreme, and three: because I wanted something a bit different. Presenting a challenge on another front, but something I really wanted to try, was creating the whole site in CSS. I feel this task alone has taught me a lot on how to handle coding a whole site in CSS, and it should make the Builder assignment after Christmas infinitely more easy. As usual, you’re all free to leave the odd comment or two telling me your opinions.
On the second front, I’ve just found a site called The Creative People's Network and I’m adoring the flash-based magazine style it’s got. Basically you drag the corner of the page - just like you would a real magazine – and it flips! Properly and everything. It’s amazing that something we take for granted for doing in our everyday lives provokes such awe and inspiration when it’s digitised.
On the third and final frontage, I’ve just picked up Jim Krause’s Design Basics Index. I’ve not had the chance to look through it properly yet, but from what I’ve read already it’s taught me a lot. It’s amazing to see that now I have a bit of tutoring behind me that my designs already look a million times better than they did a couple of months ago.
Anyway, that’s all for now folks. I’ll be back in a while, mainly when I’ve finished my portfolio site.
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I really like the general look of your portfolio website, Craig. I think the only improvement would be to have the navigation on the left, because people are more use to it being there, rather than the right.
You could just swap the position of the picture and these headings. I am *assuming* this would not be too tricky to do, but then again I know nothing of the quirks of web design.
Looking at the size of your picture, it is 35kb (if my browser is telling me correctly!). Maybe you should try using the Jpeg compression scheme for this, not GIF? Continuous tone and all that.
Apart from these small issues, great looking portfolio site. I just wish I could make something so nice looking :(
Thanks for the kind comments Julian. With regards to your first point about navigation, they aren't strictly meant to be navigation. They're just smaller versions of those clickable images on the bottom of the page. I did try what you said, but it didn't work for me.
Good point about the compression. It was late last night when I did the images, and as you can imagine compression was the last thing on my mind. That's now sorted, and changed to JPEG.
And you don't know whether you can make something until you have a bash. Have you started making any sort of portfolio site? I'm here to give you a hand if you want any help.
Once again, thanks for the comment.
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