my new site wip: need opinions

Looks very good, especially with borders:) Yep, the haiku for sure had to go. Having some kind of wise quote is not bad, it just has to be the right one.

keep it on a grey/yellow background, not too bright without borders.

Maybe a 1 or 2 pixels not too obvious border.

Nice design, how it works with different resolutions/browsers/platforms? It comes to me as a pretty heavy on the bling bling, and I like my things minimal. You don't have any subtle piece on your site, everything feels like too heavy and carved with meaning so people might get confused with the site.

How about the technical side? What is being used? Full CSS or tables? Seems pretty hard to update, but that is your problem so the end user don't care, but you might not want to make small updates because of all the hard work it requires and updates are less frequent.

I like the harmony of the colors, brings some breath of fresh air, but it is taken down by the book in the middle which seems too heavy and unintended for some reason.

I hope that helps, great design.

without

i like it with without the border. I didn't like the Haiku, because it was an indirect way of saying "please Hire me" . I like the no border because its simple and elegant. If your going to use chinese/japanese symbols did you first check and see what they mean, just incase a HR can read them .

Im not a big fan of the haiku, it should be something like~

"It takes lots of time and effort" or something. not stuff imho.

Fantastic website, I dig the "drag corners to turn pages" feature. But for the love of god, get rid of that haiku!

Quote from RD

With one border

Yeh, I'd like to see a version with one border. Care to make one and post it here so we can see it?

look above ^^^^^~~

Haiku's funny but i wouldn't put it on a portfolio site. Besides that i'd go for the one with the borders