I started my portfolio site as part of the brief for my first module in my first year at Newport and the original site that I put up then is still up. It's only an image map at the moment because I just threw up the photoshop mock-ups that I did. It's all Lorem Ipsumed and just generally not great.
So this is the template for the original website
So this is the template for the original website
At first I really loved this design and it's still pretty nice but I looked at it again over the summer and I added a few extra little tweaks to try and make it that little bit better
This was the result I came up with
This was the result I came up with
Just a few little changes that I thought gave it just a bit more oomph and brought the different elements together. I added a line underneath the black header in purple with a height of 3px and changed "Gee Murrin Design" to "Gee Murrin Portfolio". That may change again when I revamp the website.
So that's where I'm at at the moment with the website, I'm intending to 1. Make it properly, not just an image map and 2. Possibly change the design completely. The one thing that will definitely change is the colour; although it is my favourite colour and I've not really seen many portfolios (or any websites for that matter) in purple, which may make it stand out more, I've found that there aren't actually many other colours that go with it. I discovered this when I tried to make this blog match up with my website! I found that the choices of colours that worked with the kind of dark purple that I like were pretty much just variations of purple and I discovered that actually I don't like a lot of purples! I like the purple I have for my website, Cadbury's purple and the purple of the Man City away kit (which is/was LUSH! But I'm not a follower of football so it may have changed now!)
Another change I am mostly likely to make to the design is to move the navigation from the left hand side to along the top underneath the banner. Other than those changes I'm really not sure what it should look like, I would like it to reflect the work that I do, but I'm not really sure what my specialist area is at the moment and I really don't want it to look like everyone elses portfolio!
Enough rambling from me! If you read this and think you may have a good idea, comment me!
So that's where I'm at at the moment with the website, I'm intending to 1. Make it properly, not just an image map and 2. Possibly change the design completely. The one thing that will definitely change is the colour; although it is my favourite colour and I've not really seen many portfolios (or any websites for that matter) in purple, which may make it stand out more, I've found that there aren't actually many other colours that go with it. I discovered this when I tried to make this blog match up with my website! I found that the choices of colours that worked with the kind of dark purple that I like were pretty much just variations of purple and I discovered that actually I don't like a lot of purples! I like the purple I have for my website, Cadbury's purple and the purple of the Man City away kit (which is/was LUSH! But I'm not a follower of football so it may have changed now!)
Another change I am mostly likely to make to the design is to move the navigation from the left hand side to along the top underneath the banner. Other than those changes I'm really not sure what it should look like, I would like it to reflect the work that I do, but I'm not really sure what my specialist area is at the moment and I really don't want it to look like everyone elses portfolio!
Enough rambling from me! If you read this and think you may have a good idea, comment me!
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