Thoughts coming from a background as a freelance web designer and someone who has read more than a few resumes from
theatre designers:
Definitely add tons of photos to the front
page. Maybe as a rotating slideshow.
Change the colors of the site. Green, green, and more green, is not conducive to preventing ocular hemorrhaging.
I like the idea that someone mentioned of grouping all of the info for each show onto a single
page. Do that and include an index
page for them with the name,
venue, and thumbnail picture which links to the full
page.
Venue/company names shouldn't be all lowercase. Especially as someone who is applying to grad school, this just looks immature and bad. I know this has become a
bit of a trend in graphic design and it has its places but your website is not one of them.
Include a
headshot. Preferably on the front
page. It will help those of us who aren't good with keeping faces and names straight.
Lose the Microsoft Publisher style split color circles that you have on the right side of the
page. They may match your
logo but when they are arranged like that they just look like the crappy
template that Publisher has included for about a decade.
Fix the pixillation on your
logo. This is one of those things that makes a huge difference in how professional and clean your site looks.
Put
lighting designer/
stage electrician under your name not to the right of it and capitalize them. Also capitalize your name.
I like that
Mark Twain quote but is it really the one you want to present right off the bat to an admissions person at a school?
The copyright type stuff that you have in your Welcome section belongs at the bottom of the
page, not in your welcome.
"He is received his B.F.A" is not proper grammar. Make sure you proof read several times and then get a couple other people to do it too so they will catch things that you missed.
About Me is first person but the actual text isn't. I feel that a personal website is inherently first person and any copy should be written as such.
"He is pretty sure that he has nothing to do with the fact that both companies no longer exist. " I know this is a joke but I'm not sure I would
point out that they aren't around anymore.
You put a place for your GPA but it just says "x.xx"
ETC is not a skill. List specific products or lines (eg
Eos, Obsession,
etc).
RGB LED is not a skill. Anyone can
plug in an
LED fixture. Don't list this. There is no such thing as a
Martin Entour 250, it is called a
Martin Mac250 Entour. Regardless, I don't really think that is a skill either. I would just say something like "Moving light programming". "Conventionals" is NOT a skill. The fact that you list some of these as an LD/ME would make me hesitate as someone reading your resume.
At this
point I would assume that everyone knows how to use Windows and MS Word. I wouldn't list them and I judge people who do. OpenOffice.org is not a piece of software. I wouldn't list it anyway but if you are it should say, "Open Office Application Suite" or something to that
effect.
Wiring is not a skill unless you mean that you know how to
send money via a
wire transfer. Do you mean electrical work? Do you mean that you can attach a 2P&G to a cable?
The Artist's Statement
page has several grammar issues and typos but I don't feel like listing them all since they start in the second
line. My earlier comment about proof reading applies to your whole site. Maybe even hire a friend who was an english major to clean up the copy.
Lose the sitemap. We are in 2010 for gods sake, not 1996.
Generally consider what, if any, quotes belong on your website. I generally try to leave cliche quotes for other peoples' Facebook status updates not my professional website.
Put an email
address on your contact
page in addition to the contact form. Maybe even a phone number too.