New Portfolio!

It's been a long time since I've posted, but I've decided to start up again. I've been neglecting my design practice for too long. From now on, I vow to stay on top of it...at least that's what I'm telling myself. :)

Over the past few weeks I've been redesigning my online portfolio (eric-ralls.com). As usual I've been indecisive and it went from entirely HTML/CSS to a complete Flash/AS site to the hybrid that I'm about to unveil. It's all but done; I just need to take a good picture of myself to put on the homepage and make a few small alignment tweaks. Here's the mockup I did in Photoshop:


I'm pretty excited about it. My existing portfolio relies very heavily on horizontal JavaScript scrolling for the navigation and it tends to lag; not good. It also didn't allow a lot of room for expansion.

This site is HTML/CSS with a cleaner look and animated galleries that I developed in Flash. Also, the info for the galleries is loaded dynamically from XML files which will make it easier to swap out what displays on my pages and the galleries are (theoretically) infinitely expandable. I'll have to be careful not to go overboard with examples.