First Thread; My Portfolio

polorix

Junior Member
Hello everyone out there in designforums land!

Just found this place and decided to post my portfolio.

http://polorix.net/


Most definitely not current and does not showcase and web based stuff ( clients mess everything up )

A friend convinced me to make another version and put all my new stuff on, you guys might be the first to see it if i end up following through. =]
 
I like both of them. The second one looks very polished and tidy, but the first one shows a lot of creativity. I'd use the first one, it's very interesting.

Keep up the good work!
 
Thad said:
I like both of them. The second one looks very polished and tidy, but the first one shows a lot of creativity. I'd use the first one, it's very interesting.

Keep up the good work!


eh? What other design are you looking at?
 
Hay buddy just a few points ~
I would check out on my thread on accessible web coding especially point 1 regarding links and the title attribute.

I personally think the actual image pages could be greatly enhanced if you turned them into an actual page, and wrote about the inspiration behind it what the client wanted that sort of thing, around 250 words for each.

I personally don't like the logo, I think it is too hard to read and the surrounding background colours make it even harder to read.

You should add a tag line of no more than 8 words to clarify what your site does.

Your title element is currently quite useless, change it to
Polorix - Graphic designer in......

Fill in where you live/your nearest city, as it will help you to rank better in the search engines.

Not sure what is going on in the top right, cant read it try making it bigger.

You have no h1 again good for SEO,mmmmmm TBH I would change the logo, and add a tag line similar to this ~
Polorix
Graphic designer based in ......

And put that in a h1 tag with the ALT attribute saying the same thing.

All your images could be reduced by moving the border attributes, height and width to CSS.

So for example ~
img{border:0}

Is the same as witting ~
border="0" on the img tag, the only noticeable difference is you only write it once rather than on every other image.

Then you height and width can go like this ~
<img src="http://www.designforums.co.uk/images/Art/Vector/dont_stop_the_bass_Thumb.jpg" alt="Don't Stop the Bass" class="work" />

.work{height:118px;width:550px}

Then just give that class to all your portfolio images and again simplified code.
Use the same technique for the other images.

Not sure why you have linked the image cutlery in to the top image, TBH, maybe think about getting rid of it, or labelling it better as it currently makes no sense.

Hope it has helped.

Jaz

Key:
Purple ~ XHTML
Green ~ CSS
 
Hi Chris,

Some cool work on there, really like some of the t-shirt designs!

polorix said:
A friend convinced me to make another version and put all my new stuff on, you guys might be the first to see it if i end up following through. =]

Sounds good, I look forward to seeing it if/when it happens :)
 
Thanks guys. I am way more efficient at xhtml and css right now and I apologize but that current version of the site in no way reflects my actual skill or ability in those areas.

That is why I'm going to be making a new version, possibly Wordpress based so I can more effiecently add tutorials and what not. Buutt...Personally...EVERYONE is doing that..I need to become unique in someway as to not follow any of the major trends, It's hard, but I'm sure I can do it.

I'm taking this as a challenge so expect me to keep you guys updated along the way =]

Oh yeah. I'm not using this website to sell my services at all since I am already employed as a graphic artist and web designer.
 
Hay buddy,
I didn't check this this morning, but create a plain file and name it .htaccess and place this code in it ~

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^polorix.net/ [nc]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://polorix.net//$1 [R=301,L]


What this will do is redirect your non www. and www. versions to the non www. version.
This in the search engines eyes makes the site 1 site, other wise it is classed as 2 and you will be penalized as a result.

Upload that file to your root directory and that will sort it out.
Hope it helps.

Jaz
 
Jazajay said:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^polorix.net/ [nc]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://polorix.net//$1 [R=301,L]

Well..first, this didn't work bra. I think it's because of the second / in line 2 after .net

Then, when I took it out and saved it, I just get the looping error again. Whats the proper way of doing it? Since you give this advice to almost everyone, I hope it was just incorrect for me.
 
Yeah my fault, sorry been off my game today, change it to ~
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^polorix\.net [nc]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://polorix.net/$1 [R=301,L]


No trailing slash on line 2, nor at the end of the domain name on line 3. and escape the dot on line 2.

Sorry my fault. If you are still having problems, let me know.
I just get the looping error again.
It would do as the redirect is in place.

Whats the proper way of doing it? Since you give this advice to almost everyone, I hope it was just incorrect for me.
Meeeeeeeeeow, you go sharpen those claws. :D
No everyone today, lol, sods law.
My apologises.

Jaz
 
I get fed up of witting it TBH, so wrote it once and then copied and pasted. :lol:
Yeah.......errrrr......mmmmm cant see how I got it wrong on so many posts TBH, lol.

Glad it is sorted anyhoo, I think I've corrected them all now, I was just getting to you actually as I noticed about 5mins ago. :D
 
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