Since I have decided to do a personal portfolio site for my final.. I obviously looked up 3 other portfolio sites that I liked. In my response to the article we read a few weeks ago, I don’t really enjoy this part of the design process because now I have ideas that come from other people and not my own original ideas… but the sites I found were pretty cute so I figured I would talk about them.
The first up is AMRTALAAT.COM
This page has one graphic that takes the entire screen with one single column of copy. I thought the site was just very graphic design of him. I think he used a little bit of flash, but something like this could be pretty easily simulated with html and CSS.
The one thing I saw that I didn’t really like on this site was the way they displayed their work. I would probably use iframes to show mine.
The second up is MYDEZZIGN.COM
This site is so cute. I love it because it is so colorful. This website is a great way to show off personality. It made me remember that the website we are building for ourselves (the graphic design students anyway) is not only a tool to help sell our services but to sell ourselves and personalities to potential employers.
Again, this site used a little flash, but didn’t need to. This could be achieved without it very easily. I liked this site a lot.
Lastly, SINGULARITYCONCEPTS.COM
I love the whole mood of this site. It is filled with color and textures. It is all very appealing. One complaint is the feeling of being cluttered. With so much going on with the background, the content should be very straight forward. I found it a little hard to focus on what needed to be noticed. Also, I would show my work in a different way. Like I mentioned before I would try to incorporate iframes or something.
Chris Moran said
Nice writing style. Looking forward to reading more from you.
Chris Moran
jovietajane said
I love all your website research. the first one i think is using lightbox javascript application, jehremie did it for last class, intro to scripting. IT was pretty radddd! i would totally love to learn javascript.
later, later. hahahha.
:D
anyway, see, i’m off track again, anyway, yeah, i think it is all pretty cool and it seems like you know what you’re going to do. so yay!
i love you darling. i really like the second one though, if you want to try to emulate that without using any flash but convey movement, it is pretty easy i think.