I'm in the process of making my own website in which will be used as portfolios site and as well as for tutorials site ( design and animation ).
The layout is pretty much done, apart from the content of what's new, gallery and tutorials page
The critiques will of course be more than welcome as they are the input to make the site better
The main suggestions or idea would probably on gallery and portfolios page
The concepts for this page are expandable in term of contents. The original ideas for portfolio page is using Flash / animation yet simple to navigate and clean. Tutorials will as well, be expandable so adding more and more tutorials are easily done too. As the current hosting does not support PHP, that might be the reason I try to have a hosting at Frihost.
Feel free to give me some inputs on this site : http://users.tpg.com.au/riady/index.html
Thanks in advance I like the menu and the what's new section. Although the text contrast needs to be higher on the what's new section.
I would also suggest to remove the borders you have for the two text sections, they aren't really necessary and I think your design would look cleaner without them.
Thanks for the feedback donutey
There reason for me to put news in less contrast state is not to make it as attention grabber, but I'll try to play around with higher contrast typo
I will also play around with the border around the text section, might be getting rid of the border at all, or just making it less obvious
but, thanks a lot for the feedback
I really appreciate it
Great work, well done. I like how clean it is and easy to navigate.
The swirly thing in the background of the 'whats new' box kinda looks out of place though. It's just the one thing .. on itself. Looks -errm- odd. That's the best i can put it.
It's quite a minimalistic site, and that ok, but maybe you could give your visitors just a bit more eye-candy. A very light background image, or a detail here 'n there.
Still; it's amazing so far!
Hehehe ...
thanks Rein. That swirly background at what's new is deliberately made washed out, but maybe it is "too" washed out 
. I'll try to make it more obvious
For adding more details here and there ... I'm working on it
thanks a lot fro the feedback and suggestion
really appreciate it The main thing that bothers me about the website is the font size. It's a bit small and you can't resize it with Internet Explorer. I suggest using '%' values for font-sizes in css. The standard is '76%'.
Also, in the 'what's new' section, you should have more contrast between the text and the background to make it more readable. Also, try to make the font-size a bit bigger.
Thanks Chelissamow for the feedback.
I agree that the font size is too small, so I increased the text a little bit bigger. regarding to the what's new box, I deliberately made it "less" contrast so users will not focus too much on the what's new box, instead they will focus moe onto the contents
Thanks a lot for the input The shorcut image doesn't seem to fit this webiste. You should put the Dzign "D" or something like that (color it black).
I think, becuase everything seems quite balck. It would look really killing to have a black background. Try it. I"m sure you'll be surprised at just that little tweak.
Since you have a news area and a menu like that, I suggest just keep your page aligned to the top left without any margins. It will look really good.
Your site has easy navigation and a great look.
Good job~!
Good luck.
hi Dragate,
thanks for the feedback. I guess I have used "D" letter for my shortcut image.
regarding to margin on the left panel, that's deliberately done to separate between logo and news. Correct me if I'm wrong
Yep, I'll try to play around and tweak the website here and there, and be prepared to be surprisingly amazed
Thanks much | dzign wrote: |
hi Dragate,
thanks for the feedback. I guess I have used "D" letter for my shortcut image. |
oh, sorry. I just meant not to use a purple and orange one. Since the colours in your webpage, to me at least, look black, red and orange. Make it those colours. Up to you. It's what I would do. Everyone has a different way of handelling things.
| dzign wrote: |
| regarding to margin on the left panel, that's deliberately done to separate between logo and news. Correct me if I'm wrong |
I didn't mean the margin between the logo and news. Sorry if that's not clear. I meant the news and the whole page should be aligned top left. with 0 margins. The margins between all of the content areas should be kept. it's good effect, makes everything clear.
| dzign wrote: |
| Yep, I'll try to play around and tweak the website here and there, and be prepared to be surprisingly amazed |
nice~ yeah. I think first thing would be to try to make background balck. Just try it.
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npnp~IMHO making the whole body blackground black isnt a good idea. The white lends it a kinda minimalistic feel, and its a much nicer color as a blackground as compared to black. The favicon could do with a change tho, looks completely unrelated XD Other than that, nice site.
Thanks guys,
every feeedbacks I'm sure are priceless. I will keep tweaking my website according to any inputs I've got to make it better and better.
I would probably ( still try to find a way to do it ) let the background changes according to time / day. If there is direction to do it, I would really appreciate it. Say for example, if it is night, the background will become black and text white, at noon, it becomes black on white. Javascript might be able to do that way ( Probably with the change of the favicon as well )
At this moment, I'm still finding some ideas for the icons accross the site I now it's a little bit "empty", so having a few icons would probably "fill" the site in someways
but, thanks much for the feedbacks
