New Portfolio and gallery powered by Get Simple

[mdc]

I just finished developing this Portfolio:

http://www.shapeanatomy.com/

and this Gallery:

http://www.lartivetro.it/

both powered by Get Simple.

I'd like to have feedbacks! What do you guys think?

[peteremil]

Like your work. Doesn't feel anything newbie. Clean, fresh visuals. Nice work with the dynamic content. Good sense for typography.

I am fairly new to the GetSimple-clan. I am a designer by hart, no programmer. Worked with WordPress/Thematic, TYPOlight and had an eye for Modx and Stacey. Don't like bloat. So. Good work, Newbie!

[mdc]

Thanks peteremil! I just started developing GetSimple themes and I love it.

[Zegnåt]

Really like the design. As for the portfolio, these might be some things to think about:

• I’d use a P-element and not a SMALL-element for the foreword. Using CSS they can easily be made to look the same but you’ll get away from all confusion about the SMALL-element’s use. I believe the current HTML5 draft specifies it as a text-container for small print, or fine print, which is often some sort of legal clause attached to contracts.
  
• When the browser window isn’t heigh enough the menu will get cut-off, is happening for me right now because I opened Firebug to take a look at your source. This doesn’t have to be a problem if you know your audience though, and I wouldn’t directly have a way ready for you to fix this either.
  
• The titles of your pages are shown as a background-image. This is a bad idea, as Google and other non-visual software will be unable to read any page titles. Use an IMG-element with an ALT-attribute instead, or use your favourite CSS Image Replacement technique so you can have normal text for headers.
  

[mdc]

Thanks Zegnåt! Your suggestions were extremely helpful. I'm going to change the SMALL elements to P and i'll set the alt attributes fot titles. About the other problem, I was aware of that but I wasn't able to fix it. Knowing the audience I'll just leave it like this

Thanks again. I like this forum.

[mdc]

I now made those SEO improvements we were talking about. Check it out:

http://www.shapeanatomy.com/

[maxpop]

Awesome...

Wanna share the theme?

I now made those SEO improvements we were talking about. Check it out:

http://www.shapeanatomy.com/

[Zegnåt]

Good work on the page titles, now they are accessible to Google and all other text interpreters!

Only thing I thought to be funny is this:

Code:

<div id="logo">
   <h1>Shape Anatomy</h1>
   <a href="http://www.shapeanatomy.com/" title="back to the homepage"><img src="http://www.shapeanatomy.com/theme/shapeanatomy.com/img/logo.png" height="63" width="159" alt="Shape Anatomy" /></a>
</div>

In pure text this would read:

Shape Anatomy. Shape Anatomy.

This because there’s first your H1-element and then there’s an IMG-element which, according to you, can be swapped for the text “Shape Anatomy”.
Any reason why you didn’t use the same image replacement technique you used on the page titles?

Code:

<h1><a href="/">Shape Anatomy</a></h1>

Feels a lot cleaner to me. But maybe I’m missing some sort of point here?

[mdc]

Zegnåt you're totally right. I've done those changes in a rush because it's a busy period and I forgot to change the alt text. Now the alt text is logo.

@maxpop I'd like to share the theme, but I can't because I didn't design it. It's a designer's portfolio and he wanted to design it himself. Sorry.
I'm working on other sites though and I'll be glad to share those themes.

Thanks!

[S.federal001]

That is a great job you have done. that is really beautiful one. Would you help me to do this?

Thanks for your nice sharing.

[johnflower]

Hi,

I love the http://www.lartivetro.it site, although my Russian isn't all that hot. What I'd like to know is, how on green earth did you manage to get the images to do the lightbox thing (on, for example, http://www.lartivetro.it/specchiere)? I could not get lightbox to work on one site, no matter how nicely I asked the system.

[holidayC5152]

The sites are great. I have visited the "http://www.shapeanatomy.com". Nicely done. Interesting anyway.

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[travaler]

I like it! Very cool. Simple and clear.

[connellhunte]

Love the work. Just a thought, would have been great to use jquery instead of flash on the home page. I cool script would be jquery image menu

[tazmandev]

How did you make the structure for the http://www.shapeanatomy.com/ portofolio ?

[chris1313]

Hey MDC,

You might want to determine a way to optimize your home page. When I click on your link for "shapeanatomy" it took about 15 to 20 seconds to load. I am using cable connection. Most people don't have that long of an attention span. Check it out...

[Connie]

mdc,

I must admit that I hate flash, especially when it takes such a long time to load whithout giving any info to the visitor what he can expect from that flash

second, I hate these games with human organs, (is this the right word?), I come from a family with heart-diseases and saw too much of these images ;=(

Cheers, just my 5 cents

Connie

[hameau]

I must admit that I hate flash ...
second, I hate these games with human organs ...

I'm with you on both points.

Flash has no place on a landing page, imo. It's slow to load, resource-hungry for the user and doesn't work on iOS.

While the animation is certainly quite clever graphical work, it is anatomically inaccurate and in poor taste, to me.

But then, the Internet has a lot of content that I don't agree with. ;-)