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http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/11/26/50-beautiful-and-creative-portfolio-designs/ Design portfolios come in various forms.

50 Beautiful And Creative Portfolio Designs - Smashing Magazine

Creating A Successful Online Portfolio - Smashing Magazine

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/03/04/creating-a-successful-online-portfolio/ Your portfolio is the showcase of your work, your skills and your potential for your future employers. The more time and effort you dedicate for a usable and nice-looking design, the higher are your chances for getting better account balance in the end of the month. So how can you make sure your portfolio is better than the portfolios of your competitors? How can you point employer’s attention to your works? Creating a successful portfolio is easier than you think. Focus on simplicity, ease of use, hitting your objectives, professionally managing the project, and you’ll end up with a successful portfolio.
Recently we looked at the characteristics of effective blog theme design , and I’d like to take a similar look at the portfolio sites of freelance designers . A designer’s online portfolio is a critical part of the business, and in some cases the most valuable asset of the business. A good portfolio site is a constant lead-generation tool, but what is it specifically that makes a great portfolio site? 1. Clear Communication

10 Characteristics of Excellent Portfolio Sites

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2008/12/10-characteristics-of-excellent-portfolio-sites/

10 Steps To The Perfect Portfolio Website - Smashing Magazine

You may have a personal portfolio website for a number of reasons. If you’re a freelancer, then you’d need one to showcase your work and allow people to contact you . If you’re a student (or unemployed), then you’d need one to show prospective employers how good you are and what you can do, so that they might hire you. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/02/26/10-steps-to-the-perfect-portfolio-website/
http://designm.ag/inspiration/portfolio-sites/ Learn how to earn $125 or more per hour as a freelancer - Click Here One of the first posts on DesignM.ag was 101 Awesome Portfolio Sites , which drew an excellent response from readers. Many of the current readers/subscribers weren’t around at that point, so if you enjoy seeing examples of excellent portfolio sites I encourage you to take a look. In the past few months I’ve seen a number of outstanding portfolio sites that weren’t included in that post, so I put together this collection of another 50. UPDATE: We recently launched a gallery dedicated to showcasing the best portfolio sites – Folio Focus .

50 Excellent Designer Portfolio Sites - Web Design Blog – DesignM.ag

Symmetry is an age-old device of the visual artist. The word refers to two halves that perfectly mirror each other. In design, symmetry is closely tied to balance.

25 examples of symmetry in web design

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2011/07/25-examples-of-symmetry-in-web-design/
http://thomashawk.com/2006/03/top-10-ways-to-find-great-photos-on.html

Top 10 Ways to Find Great Photos on Flickr

Well two weeks ago I blogged about the top 10 ways to get attention on Flickr and thought in continuing with the top 10 theme that I’d do another Flickr top 10. This top 10 is the top 10 ways to find great pictures on Flickr (almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world, of course). Although I’ve been on Flickr, heavily, for over a year, it has only been recently that I’ve picked up on some of the best ways to use the site to find truly spectacular photography.
http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/2012/03/user-interface-design-tools.html The success of web applications and websites depends in how well designed the User Interface is. Designing a good user interface however is a very challenging process. A designer’s concepts and design decisions always affect the end users of the web site, application or generally any user interface or service he has designed. That is why, the dream of every designer is to deliver high quality, enjoyable and valuable experiences for the users. To achieve this goal, it is necessary that a web designer have a collection of web user interface resources and building blocks in his arsenal.

50 User Interface Design Tools A Web Designer Must Have

60 Apple Inspired Websites - Why Apple Design Works?

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/inspiration/apple-inspired-websites-why-design-works/ Apple has always been showing what beautiful design means in all their designs, products, icons, websites.
It’s well known that Apple is one of the most creative and innovative companies in the world, so it’s no wonder that many software companies and web designers would choose to follow Apple’s style of branding. The Apple website is one of the best websites out there due to its ease of use, functionality and the beautiful environment that it creates. I looked at websites that use one or more design elements inspired by Apple.com. http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/02/22-website-designs-inspired-by-applecom/

22 Website Designs Inspired by Apple.com