Ive just redesigned my website to try and get a more professional look. The new url is http://www.thedumpvalve.com http://www.thedumpvalve.com Still got a few little things to do on it so i though id put it on here before i called it finished. I tried to make it optimised to work well in 800 x600 and upwards. peace Dodger [edited by - thedodger on June 9, 2003 7:44:47 PM]

Generally I like it...
I would just have 2 comments...

1) there is alot of space used by graphics.. but since your an artist I don''t see that as a big problem .

2) the rollover for the Home Button, it turns to 0000.. its interesting but when I rollover it I can''t tell what it was before.. I would say as long as its only the one button you''ll be okay but if there was a large amount of buttons it could become hard to navigate..


Overall Nice work..

i like how open it feels and i like the colors you chose. now you just need some more content :D

Turt99: Cheers, yeh i guess some people will view my site as lacking information as such, but i did try to acheive a visual style. The Rollovers yeh i hear what your saying about the 0000 but it seems to stick in peoples heads and that is actually home in another font!

killingpeople: Thanks, i do need more content, when i sifted through all the work i have so far i ditched about 80% of it to try and drop the weak links. Even though i dont actually like most of the work i have up there. Things to be added soon though.

Cheers for the comments so far

i agree w/ kp.. the color scheme is excellent. the buttons are huge! not a bad thing really... nice change from all the sites with tiny buttons.

-eldee
;another space monkey;
[ Forced Evolution Studios ]

Do NOT let Dr. Mario touch your genitals. He is not a real doctor!

i like the design! however, i think the buttons in the top need a little more work.. maybe remove the bevel effect, and put some kind of border around them

better yet.. make the whole site flat!

Eldee:cheers, buttons are a bit big actually they were bigger than that to start of with as well!

Mentalstatement:Thanks, how the hell would i make the site flat heh!

"Mentalstatement:Thanks, how the hell would i make the site flat heh!"

by flat i mean a single color, the buttons and the layout should not have a bevel effect! look at this website for example...

You've given me some great advice in the past, so I figure I'll see if I can't give you some

I really like it - I liked the old one, too, but this is very cool and well designed. I especially like the top logo...

The link buttons are big, but still cool. And once I realized the rollover continued the weird effect from the top, I liked that as well...



About

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I have been drawing for more than 10 years now and have worked in a wide variety of mediums. Currently I am producing work with a mixture of hand-drawn work and digitial colouring.

My influences range from Michealangelo, M C Escher and Picasso to contempory digitial artists. The work I do is mainly figurative based, although I have painted urban lanscapes and more traditional topics such as still lifes.

Lots of things inspire me to draw; contemporary films, music, and other artists all provide inspiration. The desire to learn from the mistakes I make, refining, as well as bringing in new factors all improve my art.

I am available for freelance work; if you wish to get a copy of my resume or contact me, you can reach me at my email address

thedodger2002@hotmail.com



Just a few grammatical corrections.

I like the links you have. Great sites.

The gallery is great, and I love the way the thumbnails/full-size works. A couple of my sites work almost that way, but I didn't feel like manually typing hundreds of picture sizes...

I guess my two biggest things would be the nav bars and the main information scrollbox:

The nav bars bug me, still. Perhaps changing the font, their sizes, adding something else behind the text, a different rollover... The home button looks a little lonely. You might consider adding something to the little boxes below it, even just flashy images or your e-mail.

The scrollbox is neat, but you might consider borders for it. The text itself is a little bland, and it clashes with the image-heavy site... You might add a style sheet with some nifty H2s or the like to put there. If you remember my old redeye site (still accesible here, but its a little messed up and offline, under construction, will be back up in its old place eventually...) my little box has a color-friendly scroll bar (i like yours as it is), interesting section headers, and a bkg image.

Anyways, I'm not sure how much any of this actually helps; its just things that I like.

Oh, I absolutely love your art (though I've seen a lot of it on gdev already...) as well as the new dumpvalve logo at the top of the page.

-george
red eye

[edited by - Avatar God on June 12, 2003 7:22:42 PM]