Brandon Wang

[Portfolio] Brandon Wang, version 5.1

(click above for larger version) It’s version five point one of my portfolio home page: my presence on the Internet. In more ways than one, a home page is like a first glance at you, when someone sees this page, they will review you on your work.

Are you a good designer? They’ll look at your home page to find out. Do you know what you’re talking about? They’ll look for qualifications. I made this page with these questions in mind.

The header bar.

The header bar is very important, so I tried to really emphasize the importance of the pages on the website. The name stood out, with a small slogan beside it, emphasizing that I was a designer. When I designed this bar, I had other pages in mind.

From the front page, it is quite obvious that I am a designer, but what if you were to come across my website from another page? How would you be able to analyze what I did? This makes it easy. To add brand recognition, the four stripes are in the corner.

The content area.

The content area is a very large picture: some text over it, but overall an experiment on white space. It was very interesting to make, aligning images with words. It’s made up of several blurbs of text, but the focus is the images.

Without needing to say it, this large area pushes the rest of the content underneath the fold, unlike versions of my website four or below, where the only thing below the fold on a 1024×768 screen. This design cuts around the estimated area of the “Experience is vital” spot.

The footer.

The footer, in my opinion, includes the gray area that ends the large area, the mountains, signifying the bottom of the page, and then the footer.

In the gray area, I packed information on my skills, and a thank you. On top of the mountains is an overlaid box linking to an area that does not talk about my designer side of me. And the footer holds copyright notices and the like.

I think that the mountains is a nice choice for the bottom of the page because below mountains is ground, and it fades gracefully while the top of the mountains have been cut out.

One Response to “[Portfolio] Brandon Wang, version 5.1”

1. Mujtaba says:

   July 12, 2009 at 10:54 am

   Hats off to you!
   your design is “stunning” ! , i really love your work, cant believe you are 12 ….
   keep working…
   you have a bright future ahead…

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