Quick knock up! What do you think?

Me likey. The font for the 'artist statement' is borderline in terms of readability/style split, but very nice mate.
 
My two cents...

- The actual content of the page is too low down, as nice as the top image is it's hogging a lot of my screen.
- The 'Howdy' message text should be in HTML text for SEO purposes. If you want to put a nice font on it, check out sIFR
- the font used for the main body copy is waaaaay too big. I've just knocked it down to 14/16px in firebug and it's a lot nicer IMO.

Other than that it's really nice, top work!
 
I'm not really a graphic designer and this isn't your typical grid layout but I am suprised at the amount of compliments posted, thank you all :-)

Was going to use sIFR until I remembered I uninstalled flash. I was planning on getting it sorted but for the client and I, it's not a major biggy right now.

I've lowered the font size and increased the line height, didn't consider that! :o

I've raised everything so the content hits the fold.

And links are now red, not blue :)
 
Wonder if its just me... but the top right of the 'portfolio' tab isnt right... :\

Its ok when in portfolio, but when on homepage or contact its a bit funny.

That said... i like it! :D
 
Appearance-wise I really like it. Content-wise, you're probably going to do this already, but the heading and the "Howdy" text need to be in HTML rather than part of the background, for SEO reasons.
 
craig_kennedy83 said:
Wonder if its just me... but the top right of the 'portfolio' tab isnt right... :\

Its ok when in portfolio, but when on homepage or contact its a bit funny.

That said... i like it! :D
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I can't see it personally :confused: What browser are you using?

Mammalian said:
would be nice if it could be centered on the page rather then to the left

edit: why the username and password?
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I think you're right about centering the page but I would have to rethink the background slightly. I'm not a designer after all, it's a big challenge for me :)

Username and password because the client hasn't paid yet.

Paramount said:
Looks really good, and love how simple and code is. How did you make the background?
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Thanks :), the background was done in Photoshop with a couple of custom brushes. Dead simple. :D
 
i like the style however, wat res screen did you create it on? i viewed it on a 1680 x 1050 and might have looked better centered! think about it lol!
 
Lt. Manlove said:
I can't see it personally :confused: What browser are you using?



I think you're right about centering the page but I would have to rethink the background slightly. I'm not a designer after all, it's a big challenge for me :)
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to center the page add a margin that auto grows with the page width to the wrappers style and also set the background image for the body to be center rather then left e.g.

Code: 
#wrapper {
margin: 320px auto 0 auto;
}

body {
background-position: center;
}
as you say you'll need to change the background image slightly but that shouldn't be too hard if you still have the psd :)
 
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