I am currently looking into making a free portfolio for my artwork. I will most likely upgrade my account when the time comes to start looking for a job so that way I can make a site with its own domain. The two sites that I like the best are carbonmade.com and the deviant art portfolio page. I decided to go with deviant art because you always have carbonmade in the url even if you upgrade accounts. My question is this, do employer's look down upon deviant art portfolio's?
Also as a sidenote if anyone knows other sites similar to carbonmade feel free to let me know. Thanks for the help guys.
-M
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I just think that the 40-50 dollars a year you pay for a decent URL and hosting are worth it if you're serious about things...
Echoing a "no" to DA portfolio, because of the welcome page and because DA itself isn't exactly known for being very serious and having the best of the best.
http://slipgatecentral.deviantart.com/
Yes, there are 'gems' on deviant art but those are few and far between the anime and furry fan pages of 95% crap and 4% mediocre art, and the 1% awesome sauce art. Deviant art is known in the art circles as where art goes to die..
What the hell is that guy doing on that page? His stuff isnt anime......
Just because there are really good artists using DA, it doesn't suddenly make it the better option.
The cheapest domain-solution is to get a domain name and then forward it to html pages on a free dropbox account.
I went from paying around $100/year for [noparse]www.benapuna.com[/noparse] (at hosting.com) to $0/year for benapuna.weebly.com not a big difference if you ask me. With weebly there's still an option to purchase your own domain as well if you can't stand the .weebly.com.
I only pay for my domain name which is like... 5 usd a year or something? I def think you should cough that up. It just looks better (and looks is everything for us artists yo!)
Shouldn't your work show how serious you are, not your website, or the fact that you have one?
I'm not sure why you HAVE TO make a website, to be honest (imo) if a company likes your work they should interview you, know who you are/ your work ethics, then decide if they want to hire you.
That's what I say each time I come to interviews without pants, I mean, my work should speak for itself?
but seriously though, registering a domainname and paying for some cheap low-bandwidth hosting is dirt cheap and makes it easier for people to remember you and your site, and they'll get to your work with as few clicks as possible.
It's all about leaving good impressions.
http://news.deviantart.com/article/86515/
http://daniellemckay.daportfolio.com/
Nowadays hosting is a lot cheaper and even free.
Out of curiosity for anyone that pays attention to these things. How much bandwidth does a typical portfolio really use per month?
To be honest, I would hire you if your work was good eld, probably laugh at the fact that you aren't wearing pants and make you uncomfortable.
All kidding aside, I think if you can achieve a place to show your art for free and it looks good, why not?
I mean the point of portfolio website is to show your viewer that you are good in the field you're applying, if it can be done through carbonmade, bleidu, picasso or DA, why not?
Especially carbonmade, those guys are awesome! (eg. http://oyo.carbonmade.com/)
If you're using up a ton of bandwidth that means a ton of people are looking at your work, which can only be a good thing.
The ony I'm using is for 1.25e a month, 3000mb storage, unlimited bandwidth (max 1mb per hit) which is incredibly fitting for a portfolio. one.com