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Re: How hard is it to create your own portfolio site?...
Cheers Bek. Really helpful. Especially the text layer idea. Thanks for all the response guys. I'm sure this thread will help quite a few people out now... I'm interested in Muse. I checked out the features on the site. Seems really good. But do you seriously have to sign up to a yearly subscription to get it. Noticed there… -
Re: How hard is it to create your own portfolio site?...
Thanks coots. Just working on my content atm but I think I'll check out Muse and Dreamweaver once I'm ready to start building the site :) Another noob question... When it comes to the sexy fonts people seem to be using. All pretty solid graphic fonts, quite Swiss in design. How do you go about referencing them? Do you… -
Re: How hard is it to create your own portfolio site?...
Yeah, but one plus point for using a Server with a Database and a CMS is that you dont need to edit the html code to place new images or to change something. And I can adjust my site from every computer without the needs of FTP software or a (good) coding software. -
Re: How hard is it to create your own portfolio site?...
Carbommade is crazy simple and their free version works pretty well. A lot of people use it for their portfolio. You don't have a lot of control over how it is displayed but it works and doesn't force you to monkey with any kind of code or hosting. It's like youtube for portfolios. https://carbonmade.com/ Example:… -
Re: How hard is it to create your own portfolio site?...
It's not hard at all. Webdesign like this is more like scripting that programing, you can always right click a website and view source to see how its made. You can get a simple site working within an hour even if it's your first time trying it out. A one page site can be done in a day. If you have chrome copy and paste the… -
Re: How hard is it to create your own portfolio site?...
in my case I wanted all text for my website so that you can copy/paste my email/phone number as well as it'll get more hits in google searches. So I used Google Fonts which is a free database of common web fonts, there is just a line of html code you put on your pages that references the font and it takes a fraction of a… -
Re: How hard is it to create your own portfolio site?...
If you want full control of the site then you would need your own VPS/Webserver which you could configure with apache/php etc, if you buy hosting this is usually the kind of thing which is provided. If you take that route I'd recommend a CMS (Content management system) to use on it which allows you to create templates of…
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