Please help me review my first site!

[cooop]

[COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]Hello, my name is Cooper. If anyone has time, I'd really appreciate some feedback, constructive criticism, or harsh truth about my website. I just recently started teaching myself HTML and CSS, and this is the first thing I've ever made. I know it's not the greatest yet - but I built everything from scratch in a text editor and, like I said, it's my first go at web design.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]But I can take some criticism, and in fact would prefer it to hearing that my site is already good. I'm not too worried about SEO and that stuff since most people will probably be arriving at my site on referall from me. If you want to comment on the code and such that's fine and appreciated, but I'm more concerned about the content, layout, and design (I know there's one error in the CSS; I forgot to fix it before uploading).[/COLOR]

[COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]But really, I'd be very appreciatve of any time you took to look at it, so whatever you feel like critiquing is just fine! Thanks a lot guys![/COLOR]

[COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]-Cooper[/COLOR]

[shovenose]

I like it! It's really creative. My only "huh?" moment was that you said "sized accordingly" I don't think that is the right word

[AlphaMare]

I like it! It's really creative. My only "huh?" moment was that you said "sized accordingly" I don't think that is the right word

A better sentence would explain it this way : "the link sizes are relative to how well I can do them".
But in fact, to make it easier for the visitor to understand, they should be listed with the ones you are best at first, and going down to the ones you are least good at - then you could simply say "listed according to my abilities".

Also, you may want to consider a darker outline ( a medium grey, perhaps) on the white font for your HI There, Skills, About, Math and Work images. It owuld make them more readable on the light background.

I do love your monster - he is way too cool!
Good work for a first try, keep it up!

[George Dolidze]

You said you don't want to hear it, but too bad. I don't have any criticisms, and I really like the site. Even though you say you are new, it looks professionally done. And it's pretty fun to look at too
Even the resume looks nice. What did you use to design it?

[TheGAME1264]

Well...it's different. And it looks cool. The problem that I see is that you seem to be at cross purposes.

You've got your resume up there, which means you're looking for a job (or something else resembling work). But you're also a math graduate. So are you looking to be hired by a company that would utilize your math talents or a company using your creative ones? If you're looking for the latter (e.g. looking to be hired by say a "creative" web design agency), you've probably nailed it because everything's creative and random and abstract. If you're looking for a job where you'd be say a statistician or something like that, you've probably missed the boat completely because everything's creative and random and abstract.

The white text on light background looks alright, but is very tough to read...particularly against the light blue. I can barely tell what it says.

I have other thoughts on the content specifically, but they're contingent upon understanding who your target market is.

[George Dolidze]

I think it's just meant as a personal site, but I don't know why the resume is there.

[TheGAME1264]

I'm not sure about that. If it's a personal site, there wouldn't be the need to refer anyone as such. It would just be a hobby.

But that's what I mean about cross purposes. Is it a personal site? Is it a site designed to get the guy hired as an artist? Or as a mathemagician? What's the deal?

[George Dolidze]

Math is magic. Or, at least, that's what I tell my teacher when I don't get it.

[TheGAME1264]

No, Math Suks.

[AlphaMare]

Math is magic. Or, at least, that's what I tell my teacher when I don't get it.