Chapter 16
Building a Competitive Portfolio Site
In This Chapter
Checking out Sarah Rudder’s graphics-led portfolio site
Looking at Matt Rudder’s coding-led portfolio site
Creating your own portfolio site
Discovering how creative people get work on the strength of their portfolios
You’ve probably seen an artist or art student carrying a portfolio. The word means two different things at the same time. The first is an oversize container that holds the works in one place. A typical dimension for this meaning of the word portfolio — for the extra-large binder that holds the pieces in it — is 14" x 18", but some are larger.
The second meaning of the word portfolio is all of the designs or artwork you’ve created that you want to show other people (that is, for the pieces of paper in the portfolio). The pieces of paper can include drawn or painted artworks, sketches, cels from animation, and blueprints. The portfolio might or might not contain typed or even handwritten descriptions of the pieces that it contains.
For our purposes, we’re going to use the word portfolio in yet another way: ...
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