Need critics, suggestions?

[Sword2edge]

Hi everyone!

I was hoping I could get opinions about what I've done so far for my new online portfolio. I think I'm close to having the header finished, so here it is:

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/7181/an vilweb7.jpg

hopefully you can be honest about it, and point me out what could be improved, or added, and if you have any idea how you would see the rest of the portfolio (mostly beeing images, and some videos). I'm kind of wondering how the hell am I gonna write my name/ aspiring job title (tried same text as Home, Art etc, but it's kinda too much).

For the page content, I was planning to use a slider, in JQuery to browse trought my creations, here is the slider in question: http://css-tricks.com/anythingslider-jqu ery-plugin/. Hopefully use thumbnails to "slide" the slider into the right position, to ease browsing.

Thanks and Merry Christmas in advance!

[Vonschlippe]

Hello there!

Just a little note: make sure you include a picture with your first post, and you can provide a link to a higher resolution separately!

Now to the actual critique, I think it looks great. The looks of the wood, anvil and smoke and excellent, with good textures and great lighting! I think you can enhance it however by increasing the size of the text. If you're confident in flash, how bout you try the following: make the text larger, and have it look like burnt text, as if it had been branded into the wood by a red-hot iron. Then, when you mouse over the text, it glows in a similar way to the current look of the text.

That, my friend, would rock my socks off!

[Sword2edge]

Yeah, about the picture posting, I was so disappointed about the size allowed so I just didn't upload any.. I guess next time I can still post a thumbnail.. ^_^

For the critique, well yeah I can see about the text, I'll do that and increase it (I need to resize everything anyway since I'm aiming at a 990px width).. for the interactive burned wood, that sounds like a good idea! I could probably do it with the same jQuery stuff I'll use for the anything slider (much simpler than flash, at least for me since I never did any flash.. yet!)

Nice gallery btw, you're in montreal too? What a coincidence, I live nearby, on the north shore..

Thanks!

At 12/19/11 07:40 PM, Vonschlippe wrote: Hello there!

Just a little note: make sure you include a picture with your first post, and you can provide a link to a higher resolution separately!

Now to the actual critique, I think it looks great. The looks of the wood, anvil and smoke and excellent, with good textures and great lighting! I think you can enhance it however by increasing the size of the text. If you're confident in flash, how bout you try the following: make the text larger, and have it look like burnt text, as if it had been branded into the wood by a red-hot iron. Then, when you mouse over the text, it glows in a similar way to the current look of the text.

That, my friend, would rock my socks off!