All posts tagged Portfolio

How to Create an Amazing Portfolio with a WordPress Website


The lack of a portfolio for any freelance expert is unthinkable, how could someone prove his skills and expertise without an online presence showing the previous works, the testimonials from other clients and some amazing personal projects? The power of example is obvious making Cicero, the great Roman speaker to write a famous book called simple, “The power of example.”

The decision of making and launching a portfolio is simple and mandatory, the difficult part is coming when we must build the website, it’s very important and none want to create one that isn’t appreciated by people. Unfortunately, there can be any expert that, by using a mathematical formula to create the most beautiful website. The subjectivity is very high and plays the most important role. This article isn’t written to scary you or to convince that abandoning the launch of a website is a solution. The main purpose is to make anyone think twice when launching a personal portfolio; any mistake means serious brand issues that need many sacrifices to correct. A very handy solution in order to create the portfolio may be the well-known CMS, Word-Press. It’s an awesome entity that, in addition with a smart developer, may launch real masterpieces and it’s a sin not to benefit from it. Hence, everyone must consider two great advantages:

10 Creative Portfolio Design Ideas


When you make a portfolio to feature your work, especially online, you want something that is going to really stand out. It has to be user-friendly, be easy to view and show off your talent and creativity. Ultimately, an online portfolio is an additional means of selling yourself, providing the potential client with a look at what you can create that both catches the eye and serves a function.

Some of them manage to do something really special. Here are 10 examples of the best and most creative portfolios online.

40 Inspirational Portfolio Introductions of Designers and Developers


Portfolio of a web designer and developer or a graphic designer is like his/her identity.It represents the designer to their clients.So a very well designed portfolio website can be very effective in making the first impression.
Today we are showcasing not only creative portfolio websites but focusing on the introduction part of portfolio websites.

Making a Beautiful HTML5 Portfolio


In today’s tutorial we will be making a beautiful HTML5 portfolio powered by jQuery and the Quicksand plugin. You can use it to showcase your latest work and it is fully customizable, so potentially you could expand it to do much more.
The HTML. The first step is to write down the markup of a new HTML5 document. In the head section, we will include the stylesheet for the page. The jQuery library, the Quicksand plugin and our script.js will go right before the closing body tag..

62 Awesome designers portfolio websites


Creating your own personal portfolio website will probably be the most difficult design project you will do. We are our own
worst critics, and no matter what, we could have always done something better or changed something. Have a look at these
portfolio designs for some inspiration, they range from web design and developers (these, as expected, are pixel perfect),
graphic designers (always colorful and bright) and photographers.

Building a Great Web Design Portfolio – 10 Best Tips & 40 Examples


To a prospective client, you as a web designer are often only as good as your portfolio. They’re checking you out for the first time, and if you don’t impress them enough, you won’t get their work. And if you don’t get work, you don’t get paid. And if you don’t get paid, then you… aw, you get it. Point is, having a great web design portfolio can greatly increase your chances of getting more work and money. The following are the 10 best tips for building a great web design portfolio.

What it ultimately comes down to is quickly answering the question “why?” for a visitor (as in why they should go with you for their web design work) and showing your personality, making it easy for them to navigate around your portfolio and contact you, and making it clear what you can offer them.

So without further ado, here are the 10 best tips for building a great web design portfolio…

Design a Sleek Textured Blue Portfolio


We’re going to use guides in order to set out our layout. In order to set a guide, go to view>new guide and then specify either horizontal or vertical, as well as a distance for your guide. The default guide setting is in cm, but you can simply type in px.

To start with we’re going to set out our main content area’s width, and so set vertical guides at 90px and 990px. This will mean that we have a 900px wide content area, which is 90px away from each side of your canvas.

Professional Practices They Don’t Teach You In Art School: Portfolio – What Do You Really Need In It!


Professional Practices They Don’t Teach You In Art School: What Do You Really Need In Your Portfolio?

I’ve traveled to many art schools, being asked to review senior student portfolios and speak on professional practices in the design business and the one thing I always notice is the lack of direction in student portfolios. Even with professionals, there is often no idea what or even how to present work to a client. Without senior level courses on portfolio preparation or classes taught by those who have been out of the field too long to know current trends, it is confusing and students are left with their own thoughts on what a client wants to see.

The biggest misconception is you need printed or live web pieces to show a client. To this end, as many professionals complain, students will do free or lower paying work just to garner a few “professional” samples to say, “SEE! Someone has actually hired me.”

Current Drifts and Trends in Developing a One Page Portfolio


A portfolio is considered to be one of the most important things for a designer because portfolio is basically any designer’s first impression on his client. If you are a designer, you should be really focused on having a great portfolio so that you can make a good impression in the first go. Keeping in mind the importance of portfolios, designers are coming up with one page portfolios because clients cannot go through a huge collection of designs. Plus, you should be able to impress a client with one page portfolio. If you can do that, you are true designer.

How to Promote Your Design Portfolio: the Actionable Plan


When you’re getting started as an artist and you take a look at how many other people are doing the same thing online, it can be daunting to try and be seen through the crowd. Success is within your reach, though – as long as you follow the “Three Ps”.