www.conradburry.com (updates made)

[c0nr4d]

I've worked on a personal identity recently, and have been since working on a portfolio website to display my work...I've finished and launched it, so please visit it here:

Red Goat Creations

Please let me know if there are any problems with graphics, grammar, or execution. I would really like to here any thoughts you might have on what I've made. thanks...

Last edited by c0nr4d on Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:40 am, edited 1 time in total.

They're really nice c0nr4d. I've had a quick look through most of the stuff there and I really like them.

This doesn't really belong here but I guess no one would see it if it were in the PS section. Carry on.

Actually stumbled upon it googling for your NBA Europe project. That was before it was completed though. You going freelance?

Have to redo my site as well. My site is more of just my personal project since I work under an agency.

You have been an inspiration to improve my work Conrad. I will bring you down someday.

Kidding aside, your site is clean. I admire the simplicity in it.

Some awesome logo work! Very nice. Hopefully you're able to specialize into the corporate identity field, if you're not already.

I also appreciate the use of simplicity on your website. I do have some suggestions and usability improvements though, that you may want to consider (I have a BDes in VCD and do this for a living, so I'm qualified to do this )

- have you tried making the stroke of the C horizontally thicker on your personal logo?
- on the homepage, you have 3 image links, but only one is labelled (NBA Europa/launch); I suggest labeling each
- avoid under construction pages. If it's not completed, don't have it up.
- in the contact page, make it clear what's clickable and what's not (i.e. add color or underline to visible links, because they look like text right now). Also, users will attempt to click on the icon, so consider making that into a link as well.
- You may benefit having the side icons in a thicker stroke.
- There's too much gradients. Try to use it when it is appropriate to do so, otherwise it becomes ornamentation—a mask. It gets really dark on the bottom left when you're on the contact page.

release plz.

Nice work man
I really like the Reduce campaign. Are you going to keep uploading your work?

Cool stuff. I quite like your take on new designs for the Blazers, I hadn't seen that before.

Didn't see the rebrandings either, it's superb.

Just one word: WOW . Great as always.

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thanks for taking a look everyone

- have you tried making the stroke of the C horizontally thicker on your personal logo?
- on the homepage, you have 3 image links, but only one is labelled (NBA Europa/launch); I suggest labeling each
- avoid under construction pages. If it's not completed, don't have it up.
- in the contact page, make it clear what's clickable and what's not (i.e. add color or underline to visible links, because they look like text right now). Also, users will attempt to click on the icon, so consider making that into a link as well.
- You may benefit having the side icons in a thicker stroke.
- There's too much gradients. Try to use it when it is appropriate to do so, otherwise it becomes ornamentation—a mask. It gets really dark on the bottom left when you're on the contact page.

thanks a bunch Cy, i really appreciate the time you took to give my site a once-over. thats the kind of feedback i need to make this as successful as it can be.

I'll work on these issues soon and hopefully get more feedback from you.

I've made some changes on the site from what comments I've received on it:

Updated Site

I added a text-only version of my resume (in addition to the image version), and I linked to both of these on the home page and the contact page. Also, I changed the background color of the site (and the litebox background color) to a charcoal color so as not to compete with the colors in my design work (people said the maroon was overpowering). I also edited the links on the contact page to be more apparent, and thickened the stroke on the left nav buttons to be more prominent on the page. Thanks again for your input (especially Cy)...how's this all look?

Added you in Facebook, bro

Question: You still making jerseys for Live?

Wow, really incredible work! The NBA Europa looks great now when completed. I followed your progress throughout the creation.

I had a look at it and compared it to what Cyanide recommended you to do earlier, looks really great to me!

Here are some of the things I came across:

- Your virtual business card is really nice, but it flips over too fast. I didn't had enough time to read the contents on it nor does I had enough time to look at the picture on the other side, and I'm quite a fast reader so you might want to take this into consideration.
- When I point the pointer to the contact thumbnail, the text that appears said "how do you get ahold of me?". I'm not quite sure about this but maybe it should be "how do you get a hold of me" ?

Hope those helps.

I'm not quite sure about this but maybe it should be "how do you get a hold of me" ?

Ahold is actually correct, though I do prefer conventional web language such as, "Contact Conrad," which is short, sweet and to the point. I think too many designers try to be linguistically creative when a large aspect of their job is to communicate the message.

Other than the suggestions I've mentioned, I'm really liking the labels and the underlined hyperlinks, as it really helps with usability. Anything else I'll give is subjective and nitpicky