http://www.maryshindell.com/clients/shindellm/nav/frameset.shtml
This portfolio seemed under-designed for an illustrator/artist. Bleak, boring colours rather than simply 'neutral', and a dark colourscheme left me not really wanting to see more. I can understand now that there's a fine line between a 'blank canvas' and it being 'dull/boring'.
There was a popout image viewer that didn't allow in-window navigation, and it seemed very studenty. The work shown didn't seem to be arranged in any order, and although there was lots of decription in the pop up image viewer, there were no headings in the general view to leave you wanting more. Also, there should be some kind of page counter as you don't know which page of the portfolio you are on in each section, or how many are left so you give up after a few clicks. Also, it would be hard to describe where a particular piece of work is to anyone in one sentence say over the phone unless you had the page open in front of you to guide them through it.
I actually do love a lot of her work, but it doesn't look very good in the environment it is in especially since many of the colourchemes are in stark painful contrast to the background. The image viewer loads a little slowly. There are irregular image thumbnails and alignment problems as shown in both screenshots.
Perhaps dark colours aren't a good idea for online portfolios.
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