http://www.iamacyborg.com/photography/

I'll add more photos eventually, but just wandering what you all think in terms of the way the page is built.
I'm aware of the problem with the Twitter widget getting in the way of the lightbox, and I'm still trying to find a way to resolve it short of just removing the widget, worst comes to worse I'll put an html last.fm widget in it's place.

Visually, I think it's kind of boring, to be honest.
I think you need some colour in there. I am also not too fond of the whole rectangle design.
In terms of the thumbnail images, I think you should probably create thumbnails yourself, rather than letting your html resize the originals out of proportion.

In terms of programming, I would have continued to use div tags instead of a table for the gallery.
Also, instead of hard-coding it, look into using XML and javascript. That will make editing your gallery much easier.

But I really like your photos; great shots!

This post was edited by Sonorous on Apr 20 2009 04:23pm

Honesty's good. While I personally like the black/white design, I can see why others might not, I'll have a think about colours that might work.

I'll definitely get around to creating thumbnails, if only to get the page to load quicker, although out of proportion pics are very annoying.

The table works well, and it's already built into the milkbox css script I downloaded, so it made my life easier.
I've got no clue about XML and javascript, so I'm hesitant to build anything myself, I'll try to teach myself the basics though, I'm fully aware that they're very important things to know, along with php.

Really appreciate the feedback, thanks And I'm glad you like my photos.

It's definitely a good start, with potential.
And, yeah, I suppose that if the table works, there's no reason not to use it.

If you want to get into XML, javascript, php, and other web languages, and you don't already know this site, there's www.w3schools.com, which is what I used to learn PHP and XML.
While these languages can be useful, learning them can be a real hassle, and I don't know if it's altogether worth it unless you intend to do some really dynamic application.

i'd add a colour tease as in a dark blue or a dark red if you get what i mean. other than that i like that 3 D thingy in the lower left corner. pretty neat. Nice pictures too,

yea web design is pretty darn complicated - I found that out VERY fast not too long ago as for the site, I too agree that it need a little something to spice it up.

Maybe some type of pattern that is very subtle, like a pattern set to like 25% opacity so that you can see it but the page remains mostly the black theme you want.

P.S: the photo's are great!

The photos are really nice, however I agree with above, the web design in general is a bit bland. I'm not sure why since I'm not very experienced in web design ( http://www.photographybyspencer.webs.com )

This has always been on of my all time favorite photography galleries. Some of the photos aren't my favorite in it, but I just love how it's designed and setup. http://www.perfectography.com/gallery/

Overall pretty nice, very nice start and has a lot of potential, I look forward to seeing it in the future!

I'm not much of an expert in photography, but I think some of the photos are really cool (especially the building with the ivy). Looks good to me!

The black and white design is awesome (easiest on eyes and makes the pictures look better). The "make your photos go in a circle" thing on the left/bottom side is neat, too Never seen that before!

I'm not sure what I'd change, but nonetheless, it's simple... but to be honest it doesn't "wow" me.... hmm. Just don't get too horribly fancy, then it just gets tacky.

Btw are you doing the portfolio for fun? Or for school? Or other?

This post was edited by chantal7 on Apr 20 2009 10:48pm

I was reading up on php a few weeks back and it seemed a little complicated, I'll wait and see if my teachers cover it next year before going head on into it, otherwise I might try to learn during the summer, when I'll have a lot of spare time.



Normal links are blue, so there's colour there! Hah, no, but really, I'll have a look at adding some colour in the header. That Flickr widget does rock though.



Standard HTML/CSS design isn't too hard, it just takes a while to get it looking how you want, I might put in a dark background images to cover the areas that go outside the 1024px box.



That gallery's interesting, going to download jalbum and see how it works. Thanks
You don't need to be experienced in something to offer valid criticism



Hah, I've got no intentions on making it horribly fancy.
It's both for college and fun, something to keep me occupied while I'm bored.