SITE REVIEW: Nottingham Website Design

Can the experts speak on this? I would like to know as I'm putting together my site, finally.

I would think it's very important to show your customers reasonably large images representing your work. Not all portfolio sites link to real live examples of their work online, some just give images of the pages to illustrate the design work - (for the very reasons you list - not all of our work always ends up online, for various reasons, and some doesn't stay up - but you still want to show it to your future clients..)

I'd say it is crucially important that your site shows what you can do as a designer. this doesn't require live sites, because the coding of your own site will show that you know how to code. but do show people large image examples of your design work. you could include a gallery of stills or a little javascript that will give an enlarged image of the site in a tooltip box when the mouse hovers over the little thumbnail image............ I'd definitely do that for the 'recent works' section, and maybe even for the portfolio section (when I look at people's design I really want to see the fine detailing.... so your images for me are still a little on the small side)

unrelatedly to that, currently viewing in IE and I see a 1px turquoise blue line separating your header nav tabs from the main section of the page.... I think in other browser the dark blue tabs connected seamlessly to the main section. a new little bug? (I'll give you a screenshot if my explanation was unclear )

Loved the Website, Looked Good, Curious as to what city You used in the banner! Everything was easily laid out, but I would have liked to have seen your sample work enlarged or have the option, just saw thumbnails. Everything looked Great though and very easy to Use!

Ok, thanks for all of the input, it is greatly appreciated.

This is what I will do... hopefully tonight:
- Re-write the portfolio section, include local versions of the websites online as links. Include larger images as thumbnails?
- Attempt to fix IE bug
- Fix middle heading (around 1 px out horizontally from left & right sides)


anything else anyone can think off

that sounds like you've got it covered....

I think thumbnails are fine thumbnail-sized, and they fit in with your design just the way they are. just make them into links to a larger version of the same image, so people can look at detail if they want to...

it'll be a really smashing site

I like it, somtimes simple is better.

good job, not my cup o tea but it works