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[Wybe]

Hello everybody, thank you for checking out this topic,

I "finished" (it's never finished) my portfolio and personal website design earlier this week. I'm using a very low brightness at the moment, and although I'm personally of opinion it's "dark but not too dark", I would like to hear the opinion of you on this, as well as anything else you may notice as odd, interesting, appaling, distasteful, wrong, catastrophic or in another way devastating.

Thank you for your time and I look forward to reading your comments

The site is found at http://www.moio-labs.com

[Jonhc]

The grey headers are pretty hard to read on 'What Can I do for you' Also the top links on your portfolio bit for 'type, days ago, link'

I know your going for the minimal sort of look, but if a user can't read your site, why are they going to stay on it?

Also I think that it's a tad annoying when you hover over links and they don't go to an arrow or another icon to tell you something is there.

For the contact section, it doesn't look to professional to have a Hotmail account on there, it's pretty quick and easy to set an email up and config it with Outlook Express.

In my opinion a blog should be kept for a personal site, not your 'companies' website. I don't mean that in an arrogant way, hope you get what I mean.

Like the logo a lot and your use of Mootools Keep that up!

Edited by Jonhc, 07 October 2007 - 06:01 PM.

[Wybe]

allright, so basically sober up the site a little and work on the "colour" scheme eh. Do you think the links (edit: probably not only the links) should be in higher contrast?

Edited by Wybe, 07 October 2007 - 06:08 PM.

[Jonhc]

Yeah basically mate.

I think it needs to be a bit more pleasing on the eye

[Wybe]

Good. I've got an idea what to do already. I'll do that tomorrow, but now it's getting late and I'd like to hear some more opinions without everybody talking about different moio-labs.com's all the time

Thank you

[PaintingBlack]

The site could be quite visually appealing, but it's definitely too dark. Heres a few things you could try to fix.

- Add rollovers to the links
- Give a better understanding of what the site is about. I had no idea what it was at first.
- Bigger font
- Make a more interactive portfolio. It's always nice to see images of what you've made, instead of clicking links
- Your head element is greatly lacking. Fix up your code using the HTML Validator
- Probably not a big deal only in this case, but add a CSS file
- Keep using Mootools because it's awesome

[Wybe]

Thank you for the feedback, those are some great ideas and I should have thought of a couple of those before In the mean while I've implemented a somewhat brighter, browner colour scheme and tried to follow some of your tips. And I've noticed the whole mootools thing doesn't work in my IE 7, so I'll have to go and figure that one out. bugger

[PaintingBlack]

Wybe, on Oct 8 2007, 11:50 AM, said:

Thank you for the feedback, those are some great ideas and I should have thought of a couple of those before In the mean while I've implemented a somewhat brighter, browner colour scheme and tried to follow some of your tips. And I've noticed the whole mootools thing doesn't work in my IE 7, so I'll have to go and figure that one out. bugger

Looks better, but it's still missing that "it" thing.
I like the new background, but now it seems as if the tabs blend into it. Change the lightest stripes on the background to a bit darker brown and it should fix it. Italic text is hard to read in all browsers, and the tab names are impossible to read in IE 7. Part of your HTML isn't valid (Actually, a lot of it isn't).

The portfolio looks better, with the new color scheme.

With a lot of minor tweaks, you can turn this into an amazing website.