Owner: Charles Forster
Editor used: Photoshop and hand-coding
Comments from developer: In building my personal portfolio and business page, I was trying to create a clean and easy to navigate site that displays my work well and keeps the viewer interested. The green color palette is something I use throughout my branding and other pieces of marketing.
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Page size: 30865 bytes
Download speed: 8.15 seconds on a 56K Modem
Comments from Jennifer Kyrnin: My first impression of this site was a positive one. Charles clearly subscribes to the "above the fold" style of content, at least for his home page and that shows by the small first page. But if you see by the screen shot, there is a lot of white space (brown in his design) that is simply lost in my browser - and I don't browse the Web with my screen maximized. When I look at the page in an 800x600 screen, there is a scroll bar and you completely lose the brown except a small portion on the left. This completely changes the tone of the site. The way I saw it, brown was the predominant color, but in an 800x600 screen, the green is much more pronounced.
When I started poking around the site, I could see that the short pages theme was not carried throughout, which is fine, as I'm willing to scroll. I don't like how the secondary navigation bounces around. On the portfolio section, it's on the left and on the blog section it's on the right. Also, it's interesting to me that the blog has such tiny type for the text of the blog, but the navigation is legible. If I want to read something on a page, I want the main part of the page to have the legible text, not the navigation portion. Also, why are so many of the text blocks images? That not only makes the pages load more slowly, but they aren't accessible and search engines essentially ignore them.
URL: http://www.charlesforster.com/