Graphic Designer Portfolio Site

Greetings to all, I'm new to the site and thought I would introduce myself by offering my own website up for critique.

www.robertmayers.co.uk

I would appreciate any feedback that you had to offer.

Many thanks,

Rob

Hi Rob, and welcome to Elated. Thanks for posting your site. It looks good - nice, clean design. I like it!

I'm seeing strange behaviour with your top nav menu though. Sometimes nothing happens when clicking a link. Other times, the wrong page is displayed.

For example, sometimes when clicking the Projects link I see the "Browse Portfolio" page. At other times I see the 4 columns of white text.

Sometimes when clicking the Twitter link I see the 4 columns of text again. Sometimes when I click it, nothing happens.

There also seems to be some extraneous whitespace below the "coloured cards" photo on the Browse Portfolio page.

Hope that helps!

Best wishes,
Matt

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Matt Doyle, Elated
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Hi Robert, your site's great! It's refreshingly easy to read and navigate and loads rather fast. I also noticed some strange behaviour Matt mentioned - atimes the entire menu on the left disappeared entirely (only to reappear after refreshing the page). Could it be that you were working on the site at the time I visited? Because I also saw another View/Download link which wasn't there initially!
Anyway from all what I saw, I liked. Wish you the best.

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To both of you, first of all, I thank you for taking the time to offer feedback.

@matt, yes you were correct. There were some half-baked javascript functions happening previously. I have since revamped the entire site so you can take a look for yourself if you are curious: www.robertmayers.co.uk

@mauco, again, AHG! Yes, you are also correct. I was stripping the site while you were viewing the site. It's up and running now.

Thank you again and all the very best!

Rob, I think that looks much better. Nice, clean, and easy to use. Great work!

The only thing that strikes me as slightly odd is the lack of a page footer. I'm not sure it's essential, but it might help to round off the page. Even something as simple as a horizontal bar might work. Just a thought.

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Matt Doyle, Elated
3rd Edition of my jQuery Mobile book out now! Learn to build mobile web apps. Free sample chapter: http://store.elated.com/

In terms of ultra-minimalist, this site ranks high. Not a great fan of ultra-minimalist as I believe it can "short-change" ones abilities, none-less a well articulated minimalist portfolio site.

@matt & TruthConquers: I think I can address your comments together. Yes, the site is ultra minimalist but I believe portfolio sites should always be neutral in style and instant in function. The individual portfolio pieces should be the only 'voice talking'.

Granted, this is not the most neutral and/or functional site but I think I'll develop a new site separately.

Cheers.

No problem Rob - I hope the feedback helped. Good luck with the site!

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Matt Doyle, Elated
3rd Edition of my jQuery Mobile book out now! Learn to build mobile web apps. Free sample chapter: http://store.elated.com/