At 01:19 AM 5/14/2006, Breiterstrom [Cosmin Ciobanu] wrote:
Please take a look at my web site: http://www.cosmin-ciobanu.popconsulting.ro
The CSS is http://www.cosmin-ciobanu.popconsulting.ro/cssfolder/mystyle.css
I want you to study the portfolio page and tell me how do you think it looks.
I've used Only CSS rules, no JAVA script, for the windows that
appears on mouse over on the ice thumbnails.
Is there a way to make that pop ups appear with some effects? Like
fade in, for ex.?
Can anybody help me with a sugestion?
Cosmin,
For me your portfolio doesn't work: when I hover over the menu of
thumbnails, the larger screenshots appear in the same place and cover
up the menu itself. I find this very irritating. It means that to
view more than one screenshot I have to move my mouse completely out
of the menu area and come back into it from another
direction. You're forcing me to use a lot of extreme mouse motion
for no particular reason, and I think there's something fundamentally
wrong about a user interface that covers itself up while the user is
trying to use it.
The design is not only inconvenient, it's superfluous. You have
already allocated space on the page to display a thumbnail
representing each portfolio item, however you're using the same ice
image for each thumbnail. That seems like a waste of space. Why not
put the website screenshots into the menu in the first place? This
doesn't make the hover images irrelevant -- it's OK to show a larger
version of a thumbnail on hover.
Your menu design seems like an especially poor choice for a web
designer's portfolio: I was not impressed with your ability to design
a functional user interface and, at least on this basis, I would not
be likely to approach you for help on a web project. While I
understand your desire to show off your abilities, I suggest you do
so in a way that enhances functionality and doesn't detract from it.
My recommendation is that you use screenshot thumbnails for the menu
itself and, on hover, display the larger screenshots on top of the
big ice cube at left. That way I could hover over different
thumbnails until I found one I wanted to click on, and the thumbnail
menu would remain usable throughout the selection process.
Regards,
Paul
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