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Title: My Portfolio Wordpress Theme
Time: 5 hours. Credits: Icons - Iconfinder Retro Wood Wall - [link] Programs used: Adobe Photoshop CS3 Copyright © 2009 - sencerbugrahan Daily DeviationGiven 2009-10-30Already suggested by a few, My Portfolio by =SencerBugrahan is an interesting layout for a portfolio. Full of personality, this layout stands out for the colors, textures, details and the originality. Its worthy to watch carefully each detail and be inspired by this gem. Wonderful concept! (Suggested by =edumicro and Featured by ^NunoDias) Comments
very nice! , i know were going to see this all over those best css gallery sites when its done.
-- CHECK OUT MY DEVIANTART PAGE [link] Stunning background and great upper part, but too many images for me in the lower part.
With a more text it would be perfect -- One of the best sites ever !!! |
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For one, you've got a TON of colors going on here. In my experience, good UI uses very few, very specific colors to indicate certain functions and elements. But in your case, you've chosen basically the whole visible spectrum as your "scheme" and it causes a very jumbled eye-path that is frankly undesirable.
I don't understand why you've elected to create "buttons" for Write Me/ Coffee?/About Me which do not at all resemble buttons. Because of your layout methodology, these elements more resemble headers and share no commonality to the "Read More" buttons (which are clearly defined as actual clickable buttons). You don't need to make these things look identical, but in order for something to look clickable (in this layout, at least) you've got to give it a button-like appearance.
The font you've chosen for most of your headers is clumsy. I get that this layout is intended to be fun, but this font selection feels entirely out of place when compared to the font you're using for the title of the page, "myportfolio."
There is superfluous gloss and texture on just about everything. Texture and gloss can be great when used sparingly, since the less you use an element the more special it becomes. But, on your layout here, everything is glossy or textured, meaning none of it is special. I would cut back on a lot of the areas so the few places you do embellish become more special.
Wood-panel background texture? Check.
Shiny gradient effect? Check.
Coffee-cup stain on desk design element? Check.
I like your treatment of the twitter link. Nice work.
The colour scheme seems rich. ROYGBIV is out in full force here.
I'm also a fan of large text and few words. People don't read on the web much anyway. I'm sure that comment surprises some people but there's a decent amount of research available on eye tracking to back that up.
That probably is heavily dependant on what kind of site you're visiting though.
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