Crit on my portfolio

[jon@pixelphix]

HI there! If people would be so kind to have a look at website and comment on the content, structure ,quality of work etc i'd be really appreciative. Looking at it from a potential client point of view. Was going to do a big mail out but thought it wood be good to get some professional input first!

Cheersguys!

www.pixelphix.com

[Steve Payne]

Overall I like it, looks good. Your product shots look particularly good.
I would suggest maybe having 'before and afters'...
Rather that 'Afters and Befores' if you know what I mean...
Also using rollovers are a better way of achieving this sometimes.

[jon@pixelphix]

Yeah good shout. I do like the roll over before and after thing. Just gota figure out how to do it first. Thanks for your input

Jon

[Yowser]

There is way too much time spent loading between your before and afters. By the time I get to the before I don't even remember what the after looked like, so I couldn't tell if it was an improvement or not. You either need to do a roll over effect or a side by side because they way it's set up now isn't at all effective.

[jon@pixelphix]

Thanks Yower, I've havent really ever noticed it being that slow, but i guess i should consider those with a slightly slower internet connection. Cheers!

[Yowser]

I would definitely think about it considering I work in an ad agency, which is where I'm viewing it from, and we have a "typical" internet connection for businesses.

[galvaros]

Hey Jon

The positive stuff has been said already, so i don't repeat it I still want to say: good work!

Now to one (in my opinion) very important thing: please remove the flash intro, really. After loading the page, which obviously takes time, just show the 1 2 3 4 part instantly. Don't do any animated intro, it annoys people who regularly visit your page (and therefore know the intro by heart after a few visits), and you want these people to like the experience of REvisiting it. Also, when opening a portfolio section, simply show the thumbnails, don't scroll out the text. People these days are in a hurry and are easily annoyed by waiting unnecessarily.

Otherwise, nice page, and especially, nice work! (Keep the behind the scenes shots of the product stuff, it shows what work goes into these kinds of pictures). One consideration though: maybe it is a good move to make a behind the scenes pictures section? And only keep the before/after shots of retouching work. Just an idea.

Cheers!

[jon@pixelphix]

Hi galvaros,

sound feedback and i hear anything your saying. I do find the intro a bit tedious myself and was meaning to have a "skip intro button" but never got round to doing it. I know what you mean about people being in a hurry as im very much the same when lookiing at websites.I guess it just as i put a lot of time in putting the site together it seems a shame to get rid of the dynamic flashy bits, though i understand its for the best. I also think a page with behinds the scenes sounds like a good idea.

thanks

[garibaldi]

Oh I think you should make the black background pink, and have it go 4321 instead of 1234, and add music to it and make it html based instead of flash........hahah just kidding, i think its good, good luck!

[jon@pixelphix]

ha ha thanks garibaldi!

[HuBBa]

just an odd quirk i noticed, the last image in every gallery didn't have a before picture. Could it be that you are looping through the images and forget to do the last index?

Just found it odd to have that same behaviour on every gallery and no reason for it to be there.

Otherwise looking nice. I agree with skipping the intro though

[jam1212]

One small thing, and perhaps it's due to a complete lack of common sense on my part:

I have a fairly small (and low-res) monitor. so the entire page doesn't fit on my screen. Particularly, the area where the thumbnails show up. As such, I spent 10 minutes clicking on the "1234" and waiting for something to happen before I realized I had to scroll down *smacks self on forehead*. Like I said, it's probably a common sense thing to look over and see a scroll bar, but you might want to consider making the whole thing a little more "small screen" friendly. Just a thought.

[jon@pixelphix]

Hi Jam, yeah i have been thinking about making it a little smaller. It would also probably help with the loading time of the images too.

Thanks!