Making A Portfolio Website

From concept to completion in eight steps
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Step Six: Maintaining you Portfolio Website

This thing needs to reflect the current state or your capability.

Whenever you create a new piece or have something exciting (on the topic that your focusing on) to share with your visitors, you need to add a section.

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Just be careful that it doe not look too much like a blog, you do want your portfolio work and your resume to be the main attraction.

Online Portfolio Tutorial

This is a great service for: models, musicians, producers, extras, artists, and photographers.

I Have Always Believed in Open Exchange and in Sharing Information

If I think its useful enough to write about and I have some experience that I might be able to pass along some good tips and tricks. When you dedicate your self to something, there is a tenancy to get so wrapped up in the technical nifty gritty that I end up in my own little bubble. Sometimes it is hard for potential employers to see through your bubble to your true genius.

I like to help my visitors by explaining the simple stuff and leaving the topic open for discussion or comments or whatever after that. This way when your potential boss visits your new portfolio website he can read for himself just the difficulties that went into your projects as well as get a feel for how creative you are by reading about the solution you used or technique you demonstrated.

Step Four: Convert the interface

Okay if you made it through that last step with no sweat, then this is where it will really get fun. You will need to create slices from your original graphic file and export them as .jpg or .gif or whatever.
Then you will use a program like Dreamweaver, or any text editor for that matter, and begin re-assembling the peices you sliced out of your interface design file, using HTML to call the images on to the page.


For instance I recently created this web development tutorial detailing the process of fabricating cutting edge CSS drop down menus with a shot of JavaScript to make sure they are as browser friendly and Search Engine Accessible as is humanly possible. Please learn from these bad boys. I feel like its the only way for all the time I spent on these demonstration and CSS design challenge journals:

Try my Search Engine Spider Nest Navigation drop down menu Tutorial - CSS Drop Down Menu Journal:
that search engines love to crawl.