[joenutz]

Hey Everyone!
I Hope this is the perfect forum for getting feedback for my folio.
I'm an upcoming web designer (with no industry experience) who's looking for feedback with my folio to hopefully land a internship job somewhere.

I know it's not 100% complete yet. I have work to do on the about page content and other little things, but if you could give me feedback with what's there at the moment I would greeeaatlyyy appreciate it!

Criticism, suggestions & compliments are all welcome! I guess I'm just wondering if it will be enough to land an internship or a junior web/gfx position.

Here is my site: http://jpatrolla.com

Appreciate your time for reading!

[hodephdesign]

joenutz, on 24 January 2012 - 11:13 AM, said:

Hey Everyone!
I Hope this is the perfect forum for getting feedback for my folio.
I'm an upcoming web designer (with no industry experience) who's looking for feedback with my folio to hopefully land a internship job somewhere.

I know it's not 100% complete yet. I have work to do on the about page content and other little things, but if you could give me feedback with what's there at the moment I would greeeaatlyyy appreciate it!

Criticism, suggestions & compliments are all welcome! I guess I'm just wondering if it will be enough to land an internship or a junior web/gfx position.

Here is my site: http://jpatrolla.com

Appreciate your time for reading!

I'm a fan of the design, but I wouldn't have your logo split in half every time you switch the div!

[joenutz]

Thanks for the quick reply hodeph!

You don't like the moving/switching logo? I thought it was quite clever, albeit a teeny bit tacky since it breaks when you scroll. I did try to fix that with waypoints.js/sticky scroller but it's a bit tricky and I'm not enough of a coder to figure out how to do it since there are multiple divs on the same page

It would be interesting to see how other people feel about it too.

I appreciate your feedback!

[hodephdesign]

joenutz, on 24 January 2012 - 12:13 PM, said:

Thanks for the quick reply hodeph!

I appreciate your feedback!

No worries! I just personally don't like it! I think it'd look a bit nicer to have it stay in the same place and not split.

I also think that everything is a bit bunched together, you could consider adding more padding and margins to elements such as the "about" section text.

I would also extend the left/right navigation to the full height of the main content section.

Also, the sub-navigation is a little hard to spot at first on the portfolio page!

[Higher Ground Creative]

I agree a logo symbolises who a brand is and what they represent, making your logo split in half will give your logo a completely different perspective. Also if your website is your portfolio, you want people to be wowed and explore your site more, making your work the center of the site is key to capturing the right people.

[Pezza4u]

When I go to scroll down the page on the portfolio it disappears! Also the 2 halves of the logo don't line up properly.

[jtuds]

joenutz, on 24 January 2012 - 11:13 AM, said:

Hey Everyone!
I Hope this is the perfect forum for getting feedback for my folio.
I'm an upcoming web designer (with no industry experience) who's looking for feedback with my folio to hopefully land a internship job somewhere.

I know it's not 100% complete yet. I have work to do on the about page content and other little things, but if you could give me feedback with what's there at the moment I would greeeaatlyyy appreciate it!

Criticism, suggestions & compliments are all welcome! I guess I'm just wondering if it will be enough to land an internship or a junior web/gfx position.

Here is my site: http://jpatrolla.com

Appreciate your time for reading!

I haven't had a thorough look through it but on first impressions it looks good, simple and to the point like a portfolio site should be in my opinion. I'd personally get rid of the cut to the chase bit and actually have the main about me be the first thing the user sees. Also I'd reconsider that grey font for the inactive links I can hardly see it so it can't be good for accessibility. I would have the about me sections linear instead of 3 column or at least allow your main blurb to all fit into the first column and not go over into the second.

Finally, you're not going to get work on your portfolio alone so go and find friends, family, random strangers and make a website/Facebook page/Email/brew anything you can take experience from and beef up your portfolio.

[WBD]

Hello,

I like it in general, agree with the comments about the logo and some of the text is a bit small and cramped (hard to read). I also seem to be able to generate a gap in the logo sometimes? Might be a Chrome thing?

I might also er... shy away from expletives in your site... but that's just me. I'm sure some customers will love that use of language but some will be put right off by it, maybe? Perhaps consider the word 'crap' rather than the F-Bomb. Not wishing to sound like Mary Whitehouse here... just my two cents.

The thing I really like about your all-grey colour scheme is it really brings the users attention to the lovely pictures of food you have. Damn, I'm hungry now...

[francine87]

Hi joenutz! I really like the logo and the color palette (but not too sure about that red, which isn't as subtle) and nice use of type! Also agree that the logo would work better if it doesn't split (as it doesn't align correctly, and horizontal scroll bars are permanently visible on mine [Firefox 9.0.1] which I'm not sure if it's intentional or not)

I understand it's not finished yet but was just having a nosy with http://validator.w3.org/, and just from my experience with tutors/industry panel/interviewers commenting on our portfolios, they were quite harsh with people who had invalid html coding practices (not necessarily CSS properties that won't validate, unless they're obvious mistakes), and cross-browser compatibility (was just checking on IE9, and the logo is hidden completely-except the bottom 1/2)


p.s. the majority of errors are easy to fix like some of the <li></li> not being wrapped in a <ul> or <ol>, and img tags missing alt tags , '&' missing &amp; and so on.

Else wise, really liking the look of it!

This post has been edited by francine87: 01 February 2012 - 10:09 PM