Fireondesign

I dislike this page - Namely, the IRAQ $ counter. What does this have to do with their purpose?

For or against the war, it's just not usually not a good idea to mix your personal opinions with your corporate prescence. It's kinda like seeing billboards for a plumber with an Ichthus on them. You're likely turning off more people than your attracting.

As for the actual site... Looks good and I like the colors. Text is definitely too small. What are the logos on the homepage for? Other sites from him? Partners? Just random?

I'm not sure how impressed I would be as a potential customer seeing such hard to read text on a website claiming to specialize in designs that are "inclusive." I tried it at 800x600 and it was much better, but I then got horizontal scroll bars.

Apart from the readability problem, I like the overall design. It has a nice, techno, euro-look and the dark background is well suited for displaying the screenshots and graphics from his portfolio.

It's so hard to read and that tiny orange text on that background provided little interest for me to even care what the site had to offer. As others have mentioned, the Iraq war counter is an immediate divisive element, inappropriate for a corp site. Whatever your opinion, keep that stuff for your personal blog.

uhmmmm... text is way too small to read and formatting is really bad in some section: very confusing.

code has a problem with the section title moving up and down in different sections.

plus it's been quite some time since i've seen a webdez site with links to people who probably doesn't even know him on his homepage, i hoped the fad was over.

oddio, esiste ancora riccardoturcato.com? ;)

Marcello (si, stavo pure io su wd-ita)

alto livello!!!

high level!!!

E' un mio amichetto....

He's my friend ;)

This site is pure eye candy. Very lovely.

Really the only things I liked were the colors, and the work he's done. His portfolio pages are set up nicely.

Otherwise, this site just doesn't grasp me and say, "I'm super sexy."

I still gave it a 7 though. Nice colors.

Don't like the layout in some pages, some images are too big and there isn't an unique layout behind some sections.. Nice colors. >> 7

Come on now Style Gala. This is a cheap imitation of the YWFT and TDG style. In fact they're claiming brand work as their own that is made from the stock icons in the ywft shop! That doesn't constitute originality. The more you go through this site the more you see stuff plagiarised from TDG & YWFT. The text is impossible to read and the layout of the site is far from flattering. The iframe on the about me section scrolls horizontally. Amateurish site and very questionable portfolio.

'But the fireondesign site does it with grace' - er...hasn't everyone else here said the text is too small? How can it be graceful if you can't read it? I agree with Joos. The logos (maybe their own too) is made from vector icons from the YWFT library. The design Looks like a TDG ripoff site and the portfolio looks like it was done by them too. I smell a rat. Nuff sid about the iraq propaganda.

sometimes I wonder if joos and karen are the same person... anyway, for the last time, please avoid commenting our comments (Im talking to you karen) and focus on the site itself. Critisism is welcomed, by try to be polite and back up your arguments with sensible facts and opinions.

Politely :) Fact - I don't know Joos. Fact - The text is too hard to read. Fact - the logos are from YWFT. Question - How can text that is hard to read be graceful? That was my point in quoting your quote. It doesn't make sense.

I agree that the text is too small. And I don't get, why on Earth did the site's owner use this crappy JPEG with filthy artifacts for the logo on the main page, while keeping it as a GIF on the other pages?.. And why would anyone put descriptions for the works as rendered text in images? In JPEGs again?!

This spoiled the impression totally.

Firstly I want to thank Stylegala for the kind review...

btw, KAREN and JOOS (please want you to introduce yourself? why don't you give us the link to your site?) please do you want me to indicate which is the sign that I would have stolen from YWFT? that logo I disegned years ago. I'm 33 and I was designer since 1993 and that logo is a pollution of the initials of my name and the F of fireondesign and more, why do you say so many badnesses? btw, I love the YWFT and the TDG style: any problem

I mean "any problems?" (500 words comment)

anyway, dear karen and joos with your bad words you offend Netdiver.net and Hicksdesign, 'cause their too have written some nice rewievs about my site and my portfolio.

Please, let me know your works: link your site.

Dom i agree with the rest of the people. The text is awful and it certainly aint graceful. The whole portfolio looks like tdg and quorporation rips. This site has layout probs in IE6 with text overlapping images. Prosto is spot on with the jpgs. I also agree with joos. just need to look at the rating for this site and you see what people think.Any problems dom?

I don't think that fireondesign looks like tdg and quorporation. I agree with the admin, I think it's a good way to make a quite nice portfolio. Go ahead DOM!

I'm so curious that I've searched the review on Netdiver.net

It's true, Dom had a good comment from Carole and also from me: nice colors and very good portfolio. Italians and Swiss designers make good style since years and I think that all designers worlwide have to thanks they, expecially which ones love and use in their work Helvetica fonts.

Well, I like the design. Personally, on the portfolio pages, I wouldn't put everything on one page. Maybe 3 per page. We dial up users are still out there! :(

It's one of my favourites, clean graphic and very intersting portfolio... Colours here are not a problem, becouse it's a valid xml site: it means that can be used from everyone, without css style... I rate 10 for this site...

'I rate 10 for this site...' hmmm. Methinks you need a new pair of glasses. Loads wrong with this site - text size, layout, jpg images instead of text, poor semantics...and a very familiar style of portfolio!

uhm... my eyes are ok, man! I just mean if you have some difficoults reading that site, you can simply enable css style in your browser and read a perfect page built only with "div" tags... A few of current designers do this (unfortunately), and Dom is one of them...

Hey Dom, I really like your site. I wouldn't care too much about people like Joos. Most of us would be more than happy if we could call such a website AND portfolio our own!!

Only thing I agree with is the text-size which makes the text hard to read. You may laugh but I find it looks way better after increasing the font-size two times in Firefox. The dark background's OK and theoretically improves on-screen readability.

BTW, my daughters favourite soft toy's called 'Dom' too...;-)

Thank you all for suggestions.

I've already updated Fireondesign: now the text-size is increased and there aren't rendered text in images.

Plus I've added a new section: Photogallery with some cool pictures in it (but you need Flash 7 to view).

Feedbacks are welcome ;)