My Digital Portfolio I Site

[LiquidIce]

Thanks for taking time to look, I've just completed my portfolio for my digital portfolio I class. I'm looking for some feedback. Check it out at:
http://www.VincentCasale.com

[snapple]

LiquidIce,

That video certainly woke me up, although i found it a little repetative about half way through, just kinda watched all of it to see some more explosions, nice though - liked the dollar effect.

The site is very nice, although some of the pages looked more like power point presentations (think it was the admin section), when things slid onto the screen, could be a little more imaginative ?

Nice continuity throughout the site, but without being boring, for example, the squares that had the circles 'growing' inside them produced a nice effect.

I also liked the bg images, the worked well with the plain orange colors. Scrolling text box could have been a little smoother, but that's a bit picky.

Menu was always infront of me, which made the site easy and clear to navigate. I was slightly confused by the intro, because you had the 'skip intro' button, but after the words went off the screen (about 5 second long intro)...that was it, you actually had to press the button to get onto the main site, not just to skip the intro - could be me not having enough sleep, but i was confused.

I really did like the site, easy to use, very easy to see what it is you do, it shows your skill off, without being over the top or up your self, strikes a really nice, proffessional balance, i think.

Loading times were really good for me 3-5 seconds, no more.

Neat site, hope this helped,

Snapple :)

[Abelius]

A lot of letter "tricks" in the Intro, which I think is good...

But then I saw that the whole site has very few graphics; and what I was calling "tricks" was actually "main content"... Maybe you should consider adding more graphic content to the site... :)

[pinkaboo]

Hi LiquidIce,

a couple of things I noticed:

- skip intro button : hit area is only set to the text, add a hit area in the last frame of your button symbol so that it is easier to hit

- scrolling text bar : it would be nice if this kept scrolling when you use the scroll bar without having to keep on pressing the buttons, and for it to stop scrolling when the content finishes.

- acrobat reader icon : couldn't work out what it was so hit it to find out and of course it launched acrobat and my PC fell over. It always does that so I like to know if I am going to launch acrobat so I can avoid it like the plague :)

- over the limit : heh you have South Park on the brain! - spotted a typo "I took park in programming..."

- video loader : it would be nice to have something to look at while the movie is loading in. Though it loaded in pretty quickly anyhow (but am at work at the mo, don't know what it would be like on my home dial up :p)

site was clear and easy to use :) and demonstrated that you have a wide range of skills. was expecting slightly more in the about me section, but that's just me being nosy! :D

pinK