Review new and improved portfolio site

[Andrew Yurlov]

I finally got around to finishing my new portfolio site and I would love to get some reviews and criticism on it.
Please note that the text content has not been optimized and reviewed so it isn't very good. I will try in do that by the end of this week.

Andrey Yurlov Web Designer and Developer in Portland Oregon

Thanks
~Andrew

[sasha_bolcina]

Bravo! I like the design and concept. I would like it more if there is a well planned landing page. Just my opinion

[LearnWebsiteDesign.com]

It looks good. The background image did take a noticeable amount of time to load. I would recommend moving up the text (SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL DESIGN
BASED IN PORTLAND OREGON) up some so that you can move up the button that is below, it so that it's visible without having to scroll down.

[Andrew Yurlov]

It looks good. The background image did take a noticeable amount of time to load. I would recommend moving up the text (SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL DESIGN
BASED IN PORTLAND OREGON) up some so that you can move up the button that is below, it so that it's visible without having to scroll down.

That may be because you are using a lower resolution monitor. I will try to account for that and fix it. Thanks

[TheGAME1264]

You suck, Andrew! Oh, this is about your website? You suck, Andrew!

Seriously, I think the previous posters covered most of what I wanted to say. Nice layout overall, and you just need to tweak some things here and there:

1) Your text foreground color. Against the background color, it only has a 3.64:1 contrast ratio. That's actually good enough to pass Level AA accessibility, which is pretty good...but a few shades darker and you could go to 4.5 or higher:1, which is AAA (the bestest of the bestest). Here's a wicked awesome tool to help you with that. You'll want to do likewise with the orange...orange is a bugger that way, though. That's why I don't often use it.

2) Check your spelling and grammar. Not your unique brand of lorem ipsum copy...that's the first time I've ever seen "Kickstarter" used in lorem ipsum...but the copy you've written for your target audience. "You're" website. In "todays" world. Etc. and so on.

3) I thought you did more stuff for some reason. You'll want to beef up your portfolio somehow if you can.

That's basically what you're down to....tweaking.

[Andrew Yurlov]

Thanks GAME. Yea the text content really sucks for now. I was just using it for more of a placeholder for my design. The tool looks awesome I will give it a try as soon as I can! By the way I think I used the Chuck Norris Lorem Ipsum generator for this site just for shits and giggles haha.

[Fireproofgfx]

Hey Andrew, I really like what you have come up with. I like how the orange "simply" section works well with its background. And using Dark Gray and Orange is always a good combination! I received this advice when I posted my last website and it made since, but I was recommended to fix the Menu to the top, which i feel would be a good idea for you too on this type of design.

I like your font choice for the Name/logo, but the "Based in Portland Oregon" is choppy on my 1920x1080 screen(s), maybe if you made it bold it would fix it and once you get to 680px width and lower the titles such as Web Design and Seo start to show discrepancies, but that is shrinking the window down to see the responsiveness. Though after saying this I checked it out on my Iphone 5 and it looks perfect.

[Greenlemon]

Good work.I like your design...The background image take amount of time to load.

[timbo89]

I like the design, but spelling mistakes ruin it for me.

The only design related criticism i can make is that you need to do something about your background image, 1.6mb is way to big.

[Ronald Roe]

I know I'm posting on an old thread dragged up by other people, but I didn't see this before. You have a hell of a good design going here. The photo is still huge in terms of file size. Here's a copy I've optimized that's about 1/5 the size of the one you're using with no visible degradation I can see: http://ronaldroe.com/clients/port.jpg

Still takes a second or so to load, but not bad.