Portfolio Review

AdaptD Web Design and Development
AdaptD is a small web design and development firm based in Bucharest, Romania.

• Pros:
1. From a thumbnail standpoint you can clearly read their quote which I like. I think if you can get an idea of a company from just the thumbnail then you designed your site well.
2. I like the redundancy in the navbar and footer.
• Cons:
1. Overuse of red / green, especially in the navbar.

Jason Reed Web Design
Freelance San-Fran Area based web-design, development and SEO.

• Pros:
1. Single Page
2. His "navbar" opens relevant content while keeping you on the single page.
3. Readability, even as a thumbnail image.
4. Sociability. He has links to several major social networking site (Professional and Semi-Pro included).
• Cons:
1. None, this page is awesome IMHO.

Emotions by Mike
UK Based Freelance Web Graphics Designer.

• Pros:
1. Single Page
2. Clicking on each graphic loads the image in a separate window, scaled for the image.
3. Right Clicking any image warns the user the images are copyrighted, which I liked a lot.
• Cons:
1. Small Hard to read print.
2. Almost no information present at all, a few links, a short paragraph. Hard to sell yourself with that little IMHO.
3. The code for his website has a few errors in it, making the page display differently then he expects.

Design Pirate
Designer Cece out of Redmond, WA.

• Pros:
1. Her media is broke down into separate galleries which can be useful for people looking for specific skills.
2. The way the images are displayed prevents most people from taking them, you cannot right click save as.
• Cons:
1. You learn almost nothing about the designer from this page.
2. In the gallery, when you get to the end, the display viewer doesn't wrap back to image one...it's like a dead end.
3. Small button in top left is only way to get back to home page.

Romulo Design and Development
Romulo is a developer and designer with cross platform and multiple OS coding experience.

• Pros:
1. This is my favorite non-single page site I have reviewed.
2. I love z-index, and Romulo make good use of this on his page.
3. The images are B&W until you hover on them, letting the user know they are active by changing to full color.
4. Consistency. Every page looks the same, uses the same colors, and no page dead ends.
5. Nav Redundancy in Header and Footer. I think it helps people navigate a site better. If what they are looking for is at the bottom of a page, they can still navigate without scrolling back to top.
6. I like the color scheme, I think it is very readable and that all the colors work well with each other.
• Cons:
1. Not a single page design.
2. Code is HTML5, which is not compliant with all browsers.
3. The Blog. It is the page with the least on it, and I personally would never have one on my portfolio

Visual Groove
Febby Tan is an independent graphic artist in Indonesia.

• Pros:
1. The graphics in the portfolio are coded to change on hover, which is an effect I really like in web design.
2. The I create rhythm from colors header is large enough to be read when the page is thumbnailed.
3. Sociability. Links to several social networking sites. Many avenues to approach this artist.
4. Image open in their own scaled window, making this a single page portfolio.
5. Navbar links to area on the single page so you can still get to what you really want quickly.
• Cons:
1. Again, IMHO I find no Cons in the design of this page.

Mario Coelho: Creative Director
Toronto Based Webmarketing Company led by Creative Director Mario Coelho

• Pros:
1. I like the layered design they have in the images with the small parts of several websites.
2. I like the downloadable resume on the front page.
3. I like the glow effect behind the front four buttons. I also like the hover effect on the buttons.
• Cons:
1. Lack of Sociability.
2. The text under the images is almost unreadable with the choice of background. Same goes for the footer.
3. Images are not protected from right click, save as...I believe this to be important functionality.

31Three: The portfolio of Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain
Creative Services for the Design-Challenged Developer.

• Pros:
1. In the Portfolio Page, on the left side, when there is an applicable quote I like the way it is added to the page.
2. In the Notebook, I like the step by step progression shown in building for the customer and the choices.
3. In Contacts, the form is well designed, and I like the right side information. It is well worded and is putting the client at ease.
• Cons:
1. Not a single page site.
2. Images not protected from right-click, save as.
3. Not a huge fan of the eco-earthy color choices.

The design portfolio of Chikezei Ejiasi
Chikezei Ejiasi is a User Interface Designer in California who works for Oakley.

• Pros:
1. He designed all his own graphics, backgrounds and navigation links to fit his trademarked theme. I like it.
2. Good mix of colors that all fit the theme well.
3. I like the side navigation on the portfolio page, linking to different projects.
• Cons:
1. Small text is a little hard to read.
2. Images not right-click, save as protected. I will keep pointing this out. Like I said, I feel it's important.

X Producciones Graficas
Javier Castillo is a graphics designer in La Paz Bolivia.

• Pros:
1. The graphic on the homepage is eye catching and different, I like it!
2. I like the footer and the way contact information is listed. I've never seen it before and its catchy.
3. Another thing I have never seen before is the way the graphics are loaded and displayed on the portfolio page. Interesting.
• Cons:
1. There is a weird transition when you click from link to link in the navbar. I really dislike it.
2. Page is not translated into English, not is there an option to do so. This may not be feasible, I'm unsure.