A lot of us spend hours upon hours creating and tweaking our online portfolios. Some of us update regularly, some of us don’t. Some of us ponder over the slightest details, whilst others don’t care - but crafting a brilliant portfolio is definately an art which takes time, dedication, and skill.
In this article, we present 9 Brilliantly Designed Portfolio Websites - so you yourself can see what makes a portfolio great.
All choices have been hand-picked from hundreds and hundreds of portfolios which we have encountered over the years, so it should be a very nice selection indeed. We’ve probably missed out a few we should have included - please don’t hesitate to send us recommendations via the comments at the bottom.
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I wrote in a previous post on how freelancers could go about marketing their portfolio to potential clients. The first point made was that freelancers should try starting a blog of some kind which could include tutorials, resources and articles to attract people to visit in order to increase exposure. Without content, there is no reason for your portfolio to come up for the search terms you’d like on Google, less you look into SEO and do a bit of link building - although link building itself is useless without decent content, but more on that in another article.
Going back to the title of the post, the simple answer is yes, because there are a whole plethora of benefitting blogging could bring in terms of marketing to a freelancer’s portfolio.
I’m going to go into detail on what freelancers could potentially do with a blog if they choose to start one as an attachment to their portfolio.
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This is just a quick post to thank the sponsors of Freelancer Magazine for supporting the site and giving it a means to expand and provide better content. Without the contributions they’ve made, I would not have planned next month’s contest (whoops, I let something slip). So please feel free to visit their websites and check out what they have to offer:
- QualityXHTML - A very unique and high quality PSD to XHTML/CSS provider. As you can tell by their design, it’s very high quality stuff, and best of all, affordable too.
- BatchBook (for Designers) - Brilliant client management application with a plethora of features, best of all it starts from only $9.95/month.
- AdsUp - An upcoming banner design service, it’s still in its early infancy but get in touch with the owner and see what he can do for you.
- ProWorkFlow - Our newest sponsor, ProWorkFlow is project management software that’s totally web-based. It’s all about time-keeping, task-delegation, organization and planning.
- WooThemes - WooThemes offer some of the best WordPress themes on the market to-date. An ever expanding business with new WordPress themes every month it’s well worth checking them out.
- FreshBooks - A strong favourite of my own, FreshBooks offers all the billing and invoicing features you could ask for. Best thing is, they’re an active bunch of people, so they’re always looking for new ways to improve the system. Well worth a gander (look).
- SendLoop - Another new advertiser here at Freelancer Magazine, they offer a cool newsletter service which makes it much easier to conduct your email marketing campaigns.
There you have it, our list of prestigious sponsors! Please support us by checking out what they have to offer.
Freelancing is by no means easy. You are given responsibility of your own future, your own earnings, to choose who and what you want to work for; but this responsibility comes with a whole set of unique challenges in itself. You’re in charge of your own future, so if you make a mistake, you’re the only one to blame. You dictate your earnings, so it’s up to you to hunt down clients and make sure you’ve got a consistent cash flow. These are but a few of typical freelancer’s worries.
So how do we tackle these challenges? Well, put your seat-belt because we’re about to go through an entire list of ‘26 Useful Tips and Tricks for Freelancers’.
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Recently, a reader of Freelancer Magazine by the name of Mike Stone asked us a question with regards to clients and the type of work he receives from them. He says that a lot of his clients need web design work done, whilst he himself is looking to pick up more graphics design only jobs instead.
The question reads:
“How can I find more graphic design work when the majority of my clients just want web sites?”
Anyway, let’s see if we can answer the question for him.
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