portfolio of 4 sections

Ok splash screen is pointless - worst of all I have scroll to see the whole splash, and I can't read the writing easily especially your name (or I think thats what it is). If your going to make the mistake of using a splash screen at least do it properly!

Going into the site I was expecting something modern and fresh (as you are a architect type) but I got 6 pictures in a vertical line...very much uninspiring.

So I have to click through to see your work...and it opens in a new window...again how annoying - why does it need to open in a new window!!!

I think maybe in the gallery I'm finally going to see some signs that your capable of good work, and I get a very basic gallery with pictures of awful quality, I don't know what half of them are, therecould be a pic of an elephant in there somewhere!

http://www.dkarchitects.co.uk/show_practice.php - Now this is not a breathtaking site, but it is a site in your field. Its much easier to access, actually looks professional and I can see immidietly what it is about - portfolio items on the homepage etc.

I think you need a major rethink - as for saying you don't want a critique of the website just the content - if the website doesn't let you access the content easily you can have fantastic content but if no one can get to it then its useless and wasted.

Mike

that was idea to put some abstract stuff from past. it is not an an add...

You gave the worst example... this site shows poor quality architecture. what resolution do you have to scroll the splash... 800x600? :] cheers

What??! that makes NO sense at all! Can you please retype that in english.

why would you want a site thats showing off your below average projects?!

could you please quote my post when you reply cos I don't understand what point you are replying to here.

Can you not see the problem????? No-one gets what you're trying to show!
We're reviewing the website so we actually bother trying to figure it out, your visitors won't.

We all understand what it's like to create something and have people tell you it's rubbish - that's how we all started. But creating website is about making something that others will understand and appreciate, not just you.

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PS.: I think this is ok: http://www.aleks.webd.pl/galeria_wnetrza/index.htm
At least I know what website I'm in, and I have a simple list of pictures to look through.

All that it's missing is a short description of what I'm looking at.
But I wouldn't bother working it out after 2 clicks and one popup...

I'm actually using 1024x768 the most commmon browser size, but I have Google toolbar, web developer toolbar and SEO toolbar. So my window is only about 500px tall...i don't like splash screens. I used one on my site...as soon as I posted it up I realise dit was a mistake it it was taken down.

what point is this a reply to?

Why is it a bad example? I assume you are trying to showcase your talent in this site? To show potential clients? So why is it a bad example? They may show poorer quality architecture BUT I would deinfitely hire these people rather than you...because their site is accesible, I know what its about, they have good information, their site makes me trust them. Yours makes me press the close button on the browser.

To sum it up...I don't have a clue what you are trying to acheieve with this website, your photos are really poor quality - it certainly doesn't show the fact that you are a modern architect on the cutting edge of design.

As before...i think you need a major rethink.

If you post your site up for a CRITIQUE prepare for it to be criticised!! Our suggestions are not to insult you, they are to point you to your mistakes and what is bad about the site, unfortunately for you its the whole thing! The fact that you are arguing with us about it...well if you know already why post it up!

ok, generally i appreciate your comments and i see i need to learn some html and flash...and not sending just the images to my friend who has one day to prepare it before my interview. i am not looking for employer now ... i used that once looking for a job and it worked believe or not.
that is abstract, i don't work on the models of deconstructive stuff right now.
I just thought that some photos and visuals may create some graphic page more than something for potential client or employer. Thanks to that i am working in 3D studio and photoshop, not just in CAD.

one request... don't pick up an architectonic studio that has clear website, but the one that presents good architecture...

anyway have a nice weekend

Keyword: "presents".

You might have the most amazing architecture, you don't present it well! Stop fighting and take the advice.

We can't critique the quality of your work. None of the reviews above even mention your work. All the reviews critique the way you present your work, which at the moment, undermines its quality....

I can't do this anymore, feel like banging my head against a brick wall!

haha tell me about it Diego...we try and help but theres always an argument!

nobody has said anything about the quality of your work! you could be the best architect around - you could create the most brilliant of structures and wow us all!

But if you want a website to show off yourt work your website needs to portray your preofessionalism as well as show your work. Your website is kind of like an online CV...people see it and judge your credentials on it.

With what you've got at the momoent you'd be better hiding it in the cupboard and never telling anyone, especially potential clients/employers that you've got a website because what ytou have at the moment will do more harm than good.

Example...you go for an interview and they love you, they like your work and once you've gone they think they will employ you, as a final check they just think "ah we'll check his website"...they look at your website and see whats there at the moment - they think hmmmm maybe we won't employ him!

Good luck!

don't feel like that spinal... I got u and I'll use your advice. The text about architecture was posted just according to example which was not rather the best. Hope that it's fine now. Tell me, is there any space on webforumz.com to post sketches, posters, visuals?

I don't mean to be rude but would you mind taking your time to make your posts make sense when you write,

it is hard to decipher your messages so maybe writing in proper english using sentences.

I assume you do speak english coming from ireland and all...or is that not true...cos something tells me your not 15 either...although from you being so argumentative maybe you are! (no offence to padraig, marc etc. lol)

This going nowhere, just back and forth. Enough is enough, don't make me close the thread.

Pete.

Mike, you better get a few pints of Guiness in just in case you've offended them...

Yes (sort of). You should probably find a specific architecture/design forum, but we have some digital imaging gurus in our Graphics Forum.

I'll say this one last time, your galleries are good, it's the website until you see the galleries that is lacking and makes your work look not as good as it is. I'm glad you say you've taken the advice on board and I can't wait to see what you do with them... Start a new thread when you've made some changes and I'll be glad to review it again...

We're getting there Pete, we're getting there...

I am posting rather fast while cad drawing. I am not Irish. I am Polish but I work in Dublin.
Have a couple of pints of Guinness tonight to forget the worst parts of this thread dudes... cheers