I think you have the start of something good but it needs some work.
The following is only my opinion and I'm just an anonymous person who posts on OCUK so what do I know?
- I think your home page seems a little cluttered. You should pay more attention to whitespace and typography.
- I don't get the 'fellow noobs' bit. If you want to be taken serious, I'd remove mention of noob anything. The term and anyone using it just brings thoughts of young pimply teenagers tbh. It is possible to be quirky AND professional at the same time, but not with the word noob.
- So, drop the fellow noobs bit, then give your featured work much more importance by making it larger and more predominant (possibly have a few of them rotate or slide with some nice jquery - it doesn't take much to add a lot of pizazz.)
- Make the little blurb about yourself larger and more 'in your face'. It immediately tells the user who you are and what you do.
- I think you need to do something more with the white banner on your homepage. The inner pages are fine but your homepage should have more of a wow factor if you're trying to pimp yourself as a designer. Anyone who goes to your site should immediately think, "oh yeah, s/he's good".
- Sort out your news/blog or whatever it is you'll be using it for.
If it's a blog, it should have it's own page. If you're just a designer, your homepage shouldn't be an information assault. It should immediately get people interested in you (by way of just enough information and an eye catching layout). You can (and should) still have a little preview though listing shortened versions of recent posts.. just not the whole blog.
If it's news, control the length of your posts and pay more attention to typography. I guess this goes for everything regardless. Go through some css 'inspiration' sites and pay special attention to the various type people have used. line-height, letter-spacing, etc. can be your friends.
- You portfolio should include a little more information about each project. You could put the information on its own page for each one but in all fairness, unless you've been doing extensive SEO and/or written a bunch of custom applications or anything of the like, you shouldn't have more than a paragraph of information for each one really. As you do more and more projects, you can then pick the best ones to display. You shouldn't need more than a handful. Yes, that's quite a subjective number but you should get the idea.
That's about all I have. Don't take anything person as they're just my thoughts. Good luck with your site regardless.
Edit: Also, good choice on the name. I like it.
