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Jakub Krčmář
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- Added: 22 April 2006
- Designer: Jakub Krčmář
- Submitter: Jakub Krčmář
Review:
From the Czech Republic comes the portfolio of Jakub Krčmář. Very simple, one-page website that accomplishes what a designer should do – place his/her work in front of potential clients.
What definitely stands out is the attention to detail and the graphic richness. Design is the name of the business and this is certainly emphasized by the looks of the site, even though I, for one, can’t understand a word. I would have loved to see an English version as I’m sure some of Jakub’s potential clients would.
There are a few minor things that I’m going to pick on here, such as the fact that there’s no confirmation of the message actually being sent from the contact form, or that some of the screenshots are a bit too big and might not fit completely in a smaller screen. Fix these minor issues and I think this could be a winning site.
Elegant and visually attractive - the traits of a simple online portfolio - are characteristics that can be found here, so a screenshot of this will certainly go in my inspirational folder.
Reviewed by Lucian Slatineanu
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Dobrý, Kubo kubikulo :) Dala jsem ti sedmičku, ať se držíš co nejvýše!
Finaly, a new review :)
I love the javascripting you've done yet some pages are quite "messy" I think.
But maybe that's just becouse I don't understand the language...
Brock: it's not javascripting he's done, it's Lightbox JS (do a google search). :)
In any case, it's a nice site, although I feel like there wasn't much attention payed to anything besides the header (frames around the screenshots are not that great and the labels are even worse, imho).
Oh! I can´t take a breath! Thanks!
An english version is now on the way, and form confirmation with smaller screenshots too. I´ll fix it tomorrow (GMT +01) :o) (also backround bug -> PNG x JPG).
And don´t be angry with few works in my portfolio, I´m 16 but pretty busy (thats the reason for non-english too, for first - i don´t know that it will be so "big").
My only suggestion: increase text size and see how it holds up. There's some changes that need to be made to allow it to handle larger text.
At first I felt the size of the images were somewhat overwhelming, however I have to admin being quite taken back by the quality of that Ajax page-changing facility.
I then did a test for graceful degradation with Javascript turned off and whilst the site still worked the result was pretty ugly, with no navigation or BACK button, and to my supprise the pages are made up of single large images! I know with the Ajax installed that this will have been done to overcome some technical boundaries, however I feel that this goes quite in the face of accessibility and should perhaps have been handled a different way, such as being taken to a page with all the content in straight HTML format.
I think this is a very brave effort, but at quite a cost to the accessible nature of the site. Still, it validates to XHTML strict - which is cool. Nice appearance too.
Steve Tucker: Yes, there is problem with JS turned off, and big size of images and map element, but:
Portfolio is only place where I can do whatever i want - do big layouts, with big effects & lot of big images, and i think, that on-line portfolio of a graphic designer is all over the world only place for those no-limits designs - it´s generally tolerated and loved...
Point respectfully taken Jakub, and I get your meaning exactly. I am just looking at the website from the standpoint of a standards web designer. I do feel your graphic design skills are top notch - that is your trade, after all. But Stylegala, at least to me, does not represent just one type of beauty. I would give similar type of feedback on a technically outstanding but visually poor website, for example. I think a site has to be looked from many angles. As I said though, dont get me wrong, the design is great and the Ajax functionality is outstanding. Plus it does go some way to degrading gracefully - the pages do display!
Er, what? I don't understand, the "pages" are screenshots, yes? So where's the surprise that these are single large images? Did you expect a mini working website for each link?
I navigated this site with both CSS and Javascript turned off and it was all accessible, and easily so. The point of standards-based design isn't for visual perfection no matter the browser, it's for accessible content to everyone.
This site is gorgeous, and there's really not much negative to say other than the minor issues mentioned above concerning text-resizing and the contact form.
Most people would kill to have a portfolio site like yours, Jakub--great work!
16 years old...... shit! That kid's got a ton of talent, I can't wait to see what stuff he comes up with after a few more clients and years in the industry under his belt. Absolutely phenomenal.
It looks as though his header image replacement is a bit wonky when you increase the text size. I'd suggest a nice text-indent replacement which will do the trick, but maybe I'm biased ;)
Excellent. Very nice work Jakub. I really like your logo.
Great suggestion, Mike. Absolutely brilliant. Let's hide the content from those who are viewing the site with images off. Pffft... :-/
No Richard, the path I would have chosen would be an image embedded within a HTML page, not just an image nor a full working website. A page with some kind with navigation and alternative text content, such as a description, to cater for non-visual browsers, or those with browser readers.
Steve it's not ajax, its just simply javascript, i hate when people use the word AJAX...
It's a nice site, nothing extradonairly special but good work from a 16 year old.
I havent looked into the source, if it isnt Ajax I stand corrected. I think graphically it's professional, and very impressive for a 16 year old.
Its a neat design, but ive gotta agree with steve in that i think in terms of accessibility it could of been handled better. Cant be viewed on an 800x600 screen either...
It is interesting to look and Jakubs a great tallent but im sure it would help if i understood the language!
I agree with Lucian, good attention to details, but i am getting tired of black backgrounds, they are not the norm for a reason, they are painful!
I like all the details put around the thumbnails and little graphix and the header is very professional and unique, the images on the first page are so huge and ugly, smaller thumbnails not only look better but also prevent the theme inside the image to overwrite that of the site, although it is obvious the effort spent to do it, but it does not instantly appear as though!
The Lightbox is a great invention, I just hope to see other variations from the origin
accessibility: we should redefine our "standards compliancy" towards accomodating different markets, a media website is still standard compliant if it displays a message when JS is off, a designer portfolio does not need to be accessible by the visually impaired, a newspaper on the other hand, has to...
last tip: please Jakub, make the links stand out, it helps.
way to go Jakub!
So let me get this straight, there have been no new gallery entries in a month and of all the entries that get posted it's a 1 page site using Lightbox? I thought the purpose of waiting and not posting every site that gets submitted was to find the very best on the web. A design that considers every pixel of the site from homepage to privacy policy while managing to use the very best css and scripting techniques. Don't get me wrong the design is very nice and for a portfolio I think it's great, I'm just confused with the direction Stylegala is going.
You folks need to lighten up; seriously, can you do better? OK, then get to work!
A nice design, cool textures and I dig the simplicity of lightbox; a good choice for stylegala.
@ dave ( what I will say has nothing to do with discussion btw ;) )
U don't have to be a pro tennis player to say that Kim Clijsters played a bad game. Same thing for webdesign. ( remember, nothing to do with the discussion nor the geat website above, just mentioning :) )
Brock, thank you man :D I too wanna see something great, does not mean i can design it, and stylegala should be more selective...
It's just ok...