Online portfolio

https://www.weebly.com/websites

I chose to look at Weebly because it is a free way for someone to make a website for their portfolio. they give you lots of options to pick from when creating your website. once you create a website off off Weebly people can start viewing your work, and they can start purchasing designs or prints that you add to your website. I think it very cool that you could potentially make money off of a website your created for free. I really like that Weebly gives you the option to create a website for free because some people don’t have the money to pay a monthly subscription to have there own website. But with Weebly you can start getting your name out their for free.

Adobe Portfolio

Adobe Portfolio is an amazing site to view peoples personal portfolios as well as make your own. It’s incredibly easy to navigate and use. There are four tabs at the top of the page. In overview, you can edit your own site. The menu to edit your site is very user friendly. Fonts, colors, size and everything is straight to the point in a menu bar on the left side of your screen. The photography page is very similar to the overview. The layout is the same but you can view photography oriented examples in it. It also mentions Adobe Lightroom for editing. The examples tab is exactly what it sounds like. Inspiration can be found with different portfolios from designers, artists, photographers, etc… The last page is resources on Adobe softwares and universal tips for creative people. I found Adobe Portfolio during the Covid 19 pandemic. I used my time to create my own portfolio for mostly photography and art. I recommend this site for anyone trying to organize and display work. Here is a picture of my home page below.
Click here to view my portfolio.

Click here to create your own and view Adobe Portfolios site.

Online Portfolio: Behance

Behance is a portfolio website owned by adobe. Most use this website for displaying their artwork whether that be designing, illustration, or traditional artwork. You can create a website with their services for free and you can use your email address to make it our your Facebook, Gmail or apple account. On the main page of Behance they showcase artist pages. You can click on a page a view their page with ease. As you scroll through their page you can tell how much individuality is in their website, Each pages is unique to the artist that each of their own twist on their page. You can also follow and like these pages and on the main page of Behance you can see how many likes and views each pages has on the bottom of their photo show on the main page. One artists page stood out to me while I was look through the Behance website. The artists name is Syazwien Jaapar and she is an illustrator from Malaysia. Her page was full of bright and fun colors that caught my attention when scrolling through the main page of Behance and looking through her portfolio I really could get a feel for her as an artist and as a person. Like her portfolio her artwork also heavily featured bright and vibrant colors. Her work was incredible to look at and gave me a lot of inspiration for how I would like my portfolio website to look.

Here is the website for Behance and I have linked Syazwien’s portfolio to her name above

Online Portfolio Dribbble

Dribbble is an online site aimed for people’s personal use. It allows individuals or teams of people to post all sorts of different work created by them. There are different categories including animation, branding, typography, web design, and more. Dribbble also allows the user to make comments on someones work, just like you can here on WordPress, as well allowing the user to like anyones post that you find interesting. It has options for regular memberships and has the option for a user to get a pro membership, which is exclusively for Freelancers.

Check it out here: https://dribbble.com

Cargo

The creative viewing work site I chose for this vlog is the site Cargo. They allow for complete customization of your website. They give you a free trial and then you would be charged $14 per month billed yearly and $19 per month billed monthly. They have a wide variety in the fonts that one could choose from as well and feature the work of graphic designers on their page under their “sites in use tab” as well as show you what it can look like being used for graphic design under the templates tab. Overall, despite the price, Cargo is a great site for graphic designers to showcase their work. Below is an example of an artist utilizing their site. To see more about what the site has to offer, check it out here at https://cargo.site

Blog Post 9: Self-Promotion

“Australian creative agency The Hungry Workshop created an identity for the Rabbit Hole Café, a co-working space for creative people. The business cards feature a “few fluoro green carrots for good measure, printed with a nice, deep impression”. Parts of the card can even be removed. How’s that for originality.”

https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/16-of-the-sweetest-business-card-designs-from-some-of-the-worlds-best-designers/

WIX


Wix is a platform where people can create their own website and design it how they choose to. People are able to express themselves by creating a site exactly how they want it to be. Wix gives you many templates to choose from and topics your website will be. Sites like this are able to give people a way to publish their work and make websites for themselves for people to use, explore or have people discover their work or what they are selling. People could also use Wix to create websites to be able to stand up for something they believe in or to create blogs. I think websites like these make it easier for people to create their own websites and show their work and what they are capable of doing to show future clients or to show future job opportunities their talents. It is easily accessible and easy to figure out based on directions they provide on how to create your site perfectly.

/https://www.wix.com/

Creative Work viewing sites

https://www.careeraddict.com/10-essential-job-sites-for-creative-people

Every creative practitioner interested in visual communications might benefit from Creative Hotlist. It allows you to search for employment by keyword, region, skills, experience, and industry, and it also allows you to develop and submit an online portfolio. The website is simple and easy to use, and it provides a specialized service to students, who can build their own profiles and promote their work.

this work is made by a graphic designer by the name Gregory Izzo. he does designs for drink companies and anything that is basically liquid stuff. here we see he has designed a package for a ice tea company. the use of color and illustrations are great.

website: https://www.creativehotlist.com/

Online Portfolio: WIX

WIX is a is an Israeli software company that provides cloud-based web development services. It allows users to create HTML5 websites and mobile sites through the use of online drag and drop tools. its really easy to use and its really helpful when it come to helping designers and others artist to create and share their portfolio. its main goal t to make the work presentation easy and efficient. it no only allows artist to share their work and receive feedback and comments, it also counts with more than 800 templates for any type of proposes. This site has more than 215M user worldwide, form graphic designers to even to chefs this website is useful for any type of artist. Users can add social plug-ins, e-commerce, online marketing, contact forms, e-mail marketing, and community forums to their web sites using a variety of Wix-developed and third-party applications. Users must purchase premium packages to connect their sites to their own domains, remove Wix ads, access the form builder, add e-commerce capabilities, or buy extra data storage and bandwidth, but the its not necessary to asses some of the basic templates or to look at others peoples work, for that you will just need to make an regular account.

link: https://www.wix.com