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10 Solutions to Easily Create Your Online Portfolio

10 Solutions to Easily Create Your Online Portfolio
You don’t have to be a coding nerd to be able to build your own online design portfolio. There’s a bunch of handy sites and communities out there that are allowing designers to showcase their work and flourish with with work requests. Here’s 10 solutions to easily create an online portfolio of your own, giving you the platform to showcase your work to the world. Krop Krop’s Creative Database is an hosted portfolio solution that allows you to spend your energy promoting your portfolio, not building it! There’s a range of brilliant minimalist themes that allow your work to shine. Pros: Popular portfolio site with the handy resource of the Krop job board right next door. Cons: You’re limited to 10 images if you’re a cheapskate! Carbonmade Carbonmade is a lickety-split online portfolio sans the headache, that supports images, flash and video content. Pros: Nice Javascript navigation and effects spice up the experience of browsing your portfolio. Coroflot Shown’d Behance DeviantArt Flickr WooThemes

Design Portfolios on Google Maps Using an application, like CASA's Image Cutter or the Automatic Tile Cutter, you can create your own map tiles for Google Maps. It is therefore possible to replace Google Maps tiles with other maps. Among the first to take advantage of this were game fans, producing maps for World of Warcraft and Grand Theft Auto. Graphic designers and artists, however, soon woke up to the fact that the Google Maps interface is a great way to present a design portfolio. All you need to do is create map tiles from a collage of work. The Google Maps' navigation tools can then be used to zoom in on designs and map markers to provide further information about an individual work. Here are some of my favourite design portfolios using Google Maps: Markus Dressen German book designer Marcus Dressen has created a Google Maps mashup of his designs. Dressen also uses map markers, shaped like ink blots, to provide information about each of his designs. Blaubo Design Design With An Accent Kalle Hagman

Nivo Slider - The Most Awesome jQuery Image Slider Beautiful transition effects Nivo Slider offers 16 transition effects ranging from slicing and sliding, to fading and folding, making your galleries interactive and fun. No coding skills needed Create a beautiful experience when playing your gallery of images without any advanced coding. Include the image slider in your posts and pages using a simple shortcode. Automatic image cropping Nivo Slider crops and resizes images to a specified size, so you don’t have to do it manually for each image. Responsive and mobile ready The generated image sliders are completely responsive. Everyone loves Nivo! Time to make the best of your website’s’ image galleries. Pre-built slider themes You can choose the style of your sliders from the awesome pre-built themes. Create sliders from categories or galleries Besides the classic image sliders, Nivo allows you to choose between Category and Gallery sliders. Post types support Create carousels Join 471,039 happy customers and get access to 30+ premium products

7 Perfect WordPress Portfolio Themes Articles June 22, 2009 If you don’t have a portfolio site yet or are looking to create an easy to update, fast loading and slick looking portfolio than you should be using WordPress. Traditionally WordPress is a blogging content management system, but recently it has been used to be the back end for many cool types of sites such as portfolio sites for photographers and designers. WordPress is easy to install on most web hosting accounts and you can have a site up and running in minutes. Below are some of the coolest theme designed for WordPress with designers in mind. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Author: Cadence Wu Cadence is You The Designer's senior blogger, and the most jack-of-all-trades of the staff.

How To Build Your Own Single Page Portfolio Website This post was originally published in 2009 The tips and techniques explained may be outdated. A great looking portfolio site is crucial for any designer to instantly present their work to potential clients or employers. A simple, single page site can do this effectively by displaying three key features of large header with short introduction, examples of your work and methods of contact all in one, extremely browsable page. Let’s take a look at producing a single page portfolio concept in Photoshop, constructing the page in XHTML/CSS and adding some fancy functionality with jQuery. Last month, I had the pleasure of writing an article for internationally renown NET Magazine, also known as Practical Web Design in the US. Your online portfolio is your place to introduce yourself to the world and showcase your work and skillset. Prepare The Document Start work by opening Adobe Photoshop, create a new document at 1680x1050px. Add Some Texture Introduce Yourself Present The Goods Copy The Files

Portfolio Reviewin’, Thoughts and Ideas for Design Students | Web Design Blog: Web Design & Innovation in web standards : Viget Labs Deep in the heart of Georgetown lies the Center for Digital Imaging Arts (CDIA) an extension of Boston University's applied arts school. I was recently asked to participate in a portfolio review of some of the school's upcoming web design graduates along with representatives from a few other fine agencies in the DC area. Among other options the school offers a Graphic and Web Design Certificate to help get future designers a leg up in pursuing their passions. I've been really impressed with the school's outreach into the local community. They seem to 'get it' and the students are smart to have connected with the school to jump start their careers. CDIA Student Portfolios: It's my understanding that the CDIA students literally cooked their portfolio's up in a matter of a couple of weeks leading up to the review. Who are you? Your work is a marriage of your own personality and style mixed with the requirements of the job at hand. Where do you want to be? Understand the Space Be Creative

14 Quick and Slick Portfolio Templates (via ThemeForest) - PSDTUTS Having an online portfolio is pretty much a no-brainer these days. But all too often it's the old story of the cobbler's children who have no shoes - or in our case the designer who has no time for their own portfolio. Whether it's because there's too much work on, or because you can't settle on a design, or because you're somewhere in the middle of building the "perfect" portfolio, sometimes you just need to get something together, and fast. If that's the case, you'll be interested to see the fourteen neat portfolio templates listed below - some for WordPress, some just HTML - that with a pinch of customization, and filled with your own work will have you up and running in no time. So I should point out that in case you hadn't noticed with all this Web Design Week stuff - that ThemeForest is owned by Psdtuts+, or Psdtuts+ is owned by ThemeForest ... whichever ... so yes this is Collis cross-marketing shamelessly! Excellent Portfolio Articles to Read WordPress Portfolio Themes Folio Theme

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