mega is copy'n'pasting an email / private message he got about some online game shizzle. 

Thanks for the offer. It would be great, but I really don't need to get drawn into idling. I waste enough time as it is browsing the internet without having people to chat to about stupid things like penises and fizzy peach drinks :) 

[nt] 

Never to drink or eat anything from Blitz, ever. 

than is the one who famously stuck his penis into peach fizzy drink. 

... would have been posted in either food thread or drunk thread guys ;P 

but it's taking too long from this place so it will only be very few for now :( Hope it will work better from school when I get a password to use their computers.

+I'm not really interestes in using irc when I'm here. 

I spent the past couple of days making a little web portfolio. It's not quite finished, as there are a few more images I want to put up, but the navigation design and code are all done.

http://than.leveldesign.org/portfolio lio <-- !

You need Javascript enabled for it to work at all. Don't worry, it's just for image flipping. There is no flash, no sound, no popups, no animated gifs and no redirect to goatse.

I've tested it with Opera 8.5, Firefox 1.5 and IE 6. On my pc it looks the same in all, although it feels a little sluggish in IE.

It is designed for high resolution screens, although my laptop has a fixed resolution of 1920*1200, so I haven't been able to test 1280*960 :( Might be a bit big though :( :(

Navigation should be easy enough, but a kind of hidden feature is that if you click on the main image, it will cycle through all the images, rather than just the current set.

Please give comments on the design, ease of navigation and tell me how it is with your browser. My email address is on the page if you want to respond via email. Also, is it too dark? Looks fine on my screen of course, but there are so many people with dark monitors out there :( 

First thought:
Dammit, this needn't be wider than 1024. I'd at least advise using stretchable layout, or a minimum of 750px (if you care about 800 x 600 users, I do) or like 975px for 1024 x 768.

Second thought:
2 missing images on the top left...
- images%5Cnav_wireframe.gif
- images%5Cnav_getimages.gif

Third thought:
AAAAAAAAAGH my finger feels really weird because when I click a next/prev link the mouse pointer doesn't change to the hand and it just FEELS weird - there's no feedback besidse the color change and I wanna chop off my right pointe finger because of it. :| 

Oh yeah, I do like the idea going with the design by the way. 

I agree, you can change that with CSS, than
cursor : pointer 

I imagine that's how he did it anyway :P (guessing) 

I reckon your name will be featured prominently elsewhere, but otherwise having your name down the side and awkward to read is kind of silly.

And yeah, that seems too huge. If you're applying for a design position, shouldn't you demonstrate forethought and ability to design to the lower common denominators? It seems like 1024x768 would be plenty.

Otherwise it seems ok. 

It's too big. Also, I think it's better to have a gallery of images and open big versions upon click. At least have a bar with thumbnails at the top.

It also misses a bit of personal information - like your age, location, resume or whatever.

And yeah, what phait said about the mouse cursor is true.

Oh and, for me, nothing happens when clicking on an image (Firefox 1.5 Windows XP).

If you want, I can have a look in Safari and see if everything works ok there. 

What others said.

Make it fit 1024. You have no reason to go above that.

Use thumbnails, and really clear navigation.
C'mon, you're not using this folio to apply for 'pretentious web designer' positions, so don't try to look like one. Leave that sort of thing to phait. A potential employer-of-mappers is going to want to see your awesome, efficent mappage quickly and easily.
Design your folio to let them do that. 

no redirect to goatse

Well screw that then! 

C'mon, you're not using this folio to apply for 'pretentious web designer' positions, so don't try to look like one. Leave that sort of thing to phait.

Finally someone gets it! 

Fuckin' slow ass func_! PHPBB FTW! 

C'mon, you're not using this folio to apply for 'pretentious web designer' positions, so don't try to look like one. Leave that sort of thing to phait.

Finally someone gets it! 

the three first shots are of the same scene?

A bit narrower would be good too, scrollbars with 1152x... 

The reason I left it wide is that I assumed whoever would be looking at my portfolio would be using a high resolution (1280 minimum, more likely 1600+)

However, I will move the label with my name and resize all the images to a maximum width of 950, but keeping a constant height throughout.

I suppose I can make a small thumbnail gallery too.

On another note, I have fixed the pointer thing and precached the "missing" images. Thanks for the heads up there. I wanted to change the pointer before, but didn't know how, and didn't think there would be a way to do it in css. Thanks again for that :) 

Not a single thing is functional on that page for me. There's missing images, absolutely no navigation, and the link to the .zip is broken. I can't even read the email address on the bottom right, which probably isn't a great idea for a portfolio page. 

Blackdog: do you have javascript disabled? It's needed for the image gallery.

The top images and file link had a backslash in the url, so didn't display properly in firefox once uploaded onto the net (although they worked fine in Opera, and Firefox when stored locally). I can never remember whether to use back or forward slashes in urls, so it obviously slipped my mind there.

I fixed the missing images, put a proper email link there, resized the page to a width of 960. The image filesizes are slightly smaller too, so that should help somewhat.

The page is still too tall, but I am not making everything tiny for 1024 users, since I'd imagine most game developers are going to have a reasonably high res monitor. Hopefully HR people will too, but maybe I should look at that again.

Further commentary will be much appreciated.

Sleep: Yes, please test it in Safari if it's no hassle.

Here's the url again: http://than.leveldesign.org/portfolio lio 

forgot to mention that I have ff 1.5 and am using xp and the next image loads if I click on the main image. The image precache doesn't seem to work, so it takes a while, which is a bit annoying.

For precaching images, what do I need to do? I thought it was just imageObject.src = "imagesource.jpg"; ? Doesn't seem to make any difference though :( 

This (minus compression artifacts) is how it looks on my screen in Opera. That's also why I made it so big to start with. I should have looked up information about safe screen sizes and stuff.

http://than.leveldesign.org/files/screen.jpg (1920*1200, 115kb)

It looks and behaves exactly the same in FF1.5 and IE6 on my Win XP PC.