9 Brilliantly Designed Portfolio Websites

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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Should Freelancers Be Blogging?

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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26 Useful Tips and Tricks for Freelancers

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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Q&A: How Do I Find More Graphic Design Work?

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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How To Make Your Portfolio Better And Get More Clients: Part 2

In the last part of this topic, I covered ways to improve your portfolio. Usability was the main issue at hand, and I presented many ways in which you could make your portfolio user-friendly, and therefore attract more potential client interest. In the second part of this topic, I decide to go deep into the realm of marketing; and obviously in particular, the marketing of your portfolio.

Now, there are an abundance of ways for freelancers to market their portfolio in order to get more exposure and ultimately get better clients. I’ve noticed that freelancers in particular don’t take time out of their usual schedule to come up with new, creative ideas on how to promote their portfolio. A lot of freelancers don’t dedicate nearly as enough time as they should marketing and they don’t do it right. Well, here’s a list on ways in which you can effectively market your portfolio (also included are ways you could directly land more clients as well).

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Residual Income Is Pure Gold – A Freelancer’s Bonus

For those of you who don’t know what the term ‘residual income’ means, it’s a term used when you talk about monetary income that you attain without having to do any additional work in order to get it. For example, if you made a Wordpress theme for ThemeForest and sell copies of it there, the only work you needed to do is to make that Wordpress theme initially. After that, any income you receive is residual, as no additional effort is required to get it.

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Tools: A New Resource On Freelancer Magazine

We’ve included a new tools page on Freelancer Magazine. This page comprises of high quality online applications for freelancers to use daily. From client management systems, to to-do lists, we’re going to try and include everything a freelancer will need to increase the efficiency and quality of work.

The page will constantly be updated as much as possible, and please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us or just leave a comment below if you have a tool in mind that you want added to the list (even if it’s your own!)

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