I have a portfolio. In this portfolio I post portfolio stuff. I have a blog. In this blog i post a bunch of art wip shit and tests I do that never go to my portfolio due to their testy nature. You can access one from the other. Works for me. :) I do think that if you combine your blog with your portfolio the lines might…
Thank you! And yeah, I was always going to have the portfolio be a the forefront. I just wanted to have a little personalization as well, especially if i'm paying for a domain name.
I'm thinking about restarting my portfolio and using Blogspot to keep everything in order. Anyone have a good looking portfolio/blog that I can use for reference? Since it's a portfolio, I want everything I want to show of to be at the forefront, but I'd also like to have some space for personal stuff.
I'd say just kill the 'blog' part of it, do you have anything people 'really' need to read? Not trying to be an ass, but 90% of all 'portfolio/blog' suck. I can name about 2 that are actually useful.
Everything you stated is exactly what I was thinking. I don't want to pay money just to have a website that establishes me as another worker bee without a personality. to me, blog portfolios seem more human. are companies still hiring those :P
http://andrewclarkart.blogspot.com/ possibly the best example of a portfolio made from blogger.....mine is less impressive but click the sig if you need to see another one :) you can make your blog a seperate page and it can stay out of the way as much as you want it to I guess.
blogspot is becoming much more versatile with layout capabilities. like Jeremy said, kill the idea of it being a "blog". use it as a gallery. Seth's example is great. Also check out Striker's and Terrabite's. Similar layouts, but fine examples of using blogspot as a gallery for your work, which is exactly what your…