With the caveat of "don't neglect the art going into your portfolio" remember why they're hiring you. By all means make it great, make it personal just don't forget why they bought the ticket, its not for the warm up band, its for the headliner. If push comes to shove your art will speak louder than your site design. Poor…
Yea of course you can turn it into some colossal crazy ass project that consumes the soul of anyone that visits but honestly when it comes to artist portfolio sites no one cares about your back end database scripting laungage. They want fast loading content and they want easy nav, without any kind of code knowlege someone…
As someone who works in web design, I would beg to differ. Making basic HTML site is easier than most 3D art related tasks. Making a table-less designed site, with a server-side scripting language, database support, and it's own rudimentary content management system? And then making all of that cross-browser compatible?…