Website advice
polycounter lvl 8
Alright, so after being crapped on by two people in a row that were supposed to build my portfolio website, I'm in a pickle. I have no flash or html experience, but i'm willing to pay a little extra a month to have it done by one of those websites that already have the technical stuff done (galleries, etc.), all you have to do is customize it with your art. Do game companies look down on this? Or do they just care about the quality of your art and nothing else?
If it's not an issue, I guess I'm thinking of using something like carbonmade.com. All I need is something that will allow me to have my demo reel and some galleries on it. What do you guys use that's good?
Thoughts?
If it's not an issue, I guess I'm thinking of using something like carbonmade.com. All I need is something that will allow me to have my demo reel and some galleries on it. What do you guys use that's good?
Thoughts?
Replies
They give you some pretty nifty features for free.
If you use carbonmade, your very limited on how you layout your portfolio.
It is infact so basic, that is a few lines of html and a few lines that i keep copy pasting and just a number i keep changing to load a different image, and link it to a different img.
So if you know how to use an FTP, and save your images in photoshop, you just need to spend a few hours looking up how to set up a frame work for your website, load images onto the page (thumbs) and how to link those to the big images.
This page should help you understand all that in a short time,
http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp
A portfolio website does not need all kinds of big images and flashy things, it just needs art work, and that is as easy as just loading an image onto the page
http://wiki.polycount.com/CategoryPortfolio
Don't pay someone else to do it. Its *REALLY* easy.
Just do what I did, slap it together quickly in Photoshop. Its not fancy, but employers seem to prefer simple and to the point anyway.
my site as an example: http://meshcrafter.com
I'm sure you can just google "create website in photoshop" or something similar to get a quick tutorial.
honestly, you can put this together with little to no experience in like, 3 hours...
If you're still struggling after some google-fu, pm me and I'll give you a hand.
Thanks for the weebly info juanitudev1. I've been looking for a good free/cheap host for a little while now. It seems like paying top $ for a simple portfolio site isn't necessary anymore.
EDIT:
That's weird I didn't see Rens post suggesting w3schools as well, probably a read failure on my part :poly136:
Has helped me alot,
Just look around plenty of tutorials on there,
Photoshop to HTML Slice your Designs Like a Pro i really like alot,
http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/news/photoshop-to-html-slice-your-designs-like-a-pro/
> Your Portfolio Repels Jobs
Why is your entire Resum
Their really pushing Dreamweaver and Fireworks, if you have Fireworks, its very good at making websites.
It's mainly a prototyping tool, and asset creation tool for the web, I wouldn't really use what it outputs as final websites, though I have seen a co-worker just use his Fireworks outputs as finals, the results are pretty good. It's able to create gallery systems, fairly complex UI systems(though i suggest you keep it simple) amongst other things.
They are suppose to be more of an easy to use type host. They have templates that you choose from, and then just edit it without coding. I haven't used it, but I watch Revision3.com's podcasts, and they have covered (and advertised) squarespace a lot, and it seems pretty cool for someone like yourself.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WS4B2B82C2-F8F7-4464-AB29-EFE7FDDDB109.html
What did you end up doing for the site?
I would suggest making smaller images for the site, since they are taking a long time to load (for me). Also, the enlarged images don't seem to be much bigger than the original thumbnail
Edit: Hmmm, I just revisited, and it seems like things are loading new images faster now. It must be downloading images in the background.