On web design portfolios
This entry was posted on November 18, 2007
This site is so simple, yet so effective. The background has a subtle yet striking dark grey gradient, and the soft rounded corners of the div containers make me go weak at the knees. I love it.
This site sounds quite strange when I say that it has a deep blue background with a rainbow and a street light, but when you actually see it, it’s so beautifully laid out, and it works on all (well, all the ones I’ve tried) screen resolutions.
Normally I hate websites that use flash, because of all the bad experiences I’ve had with them. However, this site doesn’t annoy me in any way at all! It’s a rather inverse design, in that the background is the foreground and the foreground is the background. Visit the site to see what I mean. To me it kind of looks like a cushion that has been ripped over to reveal the insides.
Clean, simple designs are always my favourite, and this is no exception. This site also uses green, which is my favourite colour. It’s a one page portfolio and I really like the way in which the separate sections are held together with paperclips.
Valinentina is one very talented Italian! Her site is so cute and colourful, without being over the top. It’s one of the few websites that I would hug if I could. It has stripes, and flowers, and rainbows… It’s so huggable!
I’m currently trying to design my own portfolio and these sites I’ve listed above are just making me depressed and self-doubting. My strengths really do lie with HTML / CSS, and I’ve never been amazing at graphics. Equally, though, I don’t suck, so maybe I’ll go for something really clean and simple. But then, what if it turns out too simple and becomes dull? Aargh, I’m so confused!
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