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Make sense! I will let the graphics stand alone.
Thanks very much!

You are very talented at graphic!  and I really like your website!
Just two comments:
1. For your website, you have so much good stuff there, How about have more emphasis on your portfolio and CV sections? Probably, you can make their front bigger or use a different color. Well, I think you can come up with a better idea, I am not good at web des…[Read more]

Thanks for the well wishes guys. I’m still looking to get some intense crit on my work though if anyone is still interested!

I think it has always been on a  “on a need basis only”. That is what made the explosion of landscape architecture jobs that generated the “20% expansion by the year 2018” statistic that was and maybe still is on the Bureau of Labor Statistics website.
 
That trend of growth obviously did not continue and we look back and see that it was not r…[Read more]

Thanks for your advice, it is helpful!
You mentioned that it looks like a planning report, is that mainly because of the text? or problems with my content?
Thanks again!

Andrew:
 
Thanks for the counterpoint, it was, as you usually do, very well expressed. Your points are well taken and the perspective you offer is certainly a better one than mine. When I first saw this ad, I was just appalled by how bad things have  become and continue to appear to be in the employment frontier, not only for our profession, but a…[Read more]

As a recent grad who’s working on a portfolio, my gratitude to all for this educational conversation. Thanks Akinyinka for posting your portfolio for perusal. Good luck to you.

We used Word Press for exactly this reason. 
SD gave technology grants to small businesses through the SBA for consultation with a tech advisor – ours said flash pages aren’t recognized through the search engine index. Our tech advisor was 9Clouds http://9clouds.com/ and they were great. How can you go wrong with a couple of guys who call the…[Read more]

Roothouse’s website does *look* really unique and their display of projects is impressive. Unfortunately from an SEO (search engine optimization) perspective I bet it suffers. Google and other search engines can’t index web pages that are solely image-based nearly as well as they can sites that are built on a CMS platform. Maybe Roothouse has…[Read more]

Great to hear from you Susan! Thanks for the link. Big shout out to roothouse studio for their excellent site and work! I’ll check with Ian…

try wix.com  mine is on there and they have plenty of templates

Thanks for the lengthy feedback. It’s helpful. As for the length. I made it somewhat lengthly because it’s hard for me to pick and choose which works are better than others. My hope was that it wasnt too long for a reader to get bored. So I aimed for variety.

Hi Jen!!  Have you seen Ian Scott’s firm’s website?  I think it looks awesome…I wonder what they use. http://roothousestudio.com/index.html Good Luck – Looking forward to seeing your website!

Like others have mentioned, your work work looks nice and abundant. One of my biggest criticisms is your choice of font. I counted five different fonts, not including all the other fonts embedded in your images. Keep your font selection consistent and minimal and don’t alternate between serif and sans-serif fonts. I’m sure you’re a big fan of yo…[Read more]

Hi Henry – we do have LandFX in our office – I will have to see if it can do what we need –  thanks for the recommendation!

There has been more work in the Middle East and China (both economies are slowing down); Brazil should be picking up – large architecture firms have already established presences there.  That being said, unless you have language skills that can make you able to fit right in, you might be best served knocking on doors of firms that do work abroad…[Read more]

It’s not dead in the design-build area where I see smatterings of ads on sites like simplyhired, indeed, monster etc., although they make it clear that the work involves selling, estimating, and crew supervision…and a person might have to move to them.  There may also be stacks of candidates to compete with, but there are definitely ads. It’s…[Read more]

There are a lot of ways to speculate on motivation of both the employer and potential employee here. The thing is that we all have a choice to take on he job or not.
 
Some businesses are struggling and have to do everything they can to maintain their last few employees. I don’t know what the state of that company is, but it is not beyond…[Read more]

If the States is a dead end, Italy is a black hole without comeback.
Maybe no, without comeback, but at the moment I can’t see any light at the end of the tunnel.
Good luck!!!

Yes you can reduce the text, but you should try place the text in one area rather than in-between the images. Having text in-between reduces the images’ impact. Right now your pages look like a muddled mess of gray. If you need a caption to describe the image, the caption should only be 1 sentence or 1 line, not a paragraph block. I agee with the…[Read more]