Create a website for your portfolio

ASSIGNMENT

Create a portfolio website to showcase your creative work. Walking through this process will teach you the basics of website design and how to talk about your work. You can create a website to display any type of work – design, photography, illustration, writing – examples of different types of sites are below in the resources.

DELIVERABLE

Post a link to your portfolio website in the project gallery. A finished project includes:

2 to 3 screenshots of your portfolio website.

Early sketches of the site design.

A link to your live site for us to check out.

RESOURCES

Here are some additional articles about creating portfolios.
- Portfolios by Basheer Tome
- Advice from Designers Who've Been Through It from Zeus Jones
- Thoughts on Design Portfolios from the Austin Center for Design
Keep learning with other Skillshare classes from the School of Design, some suggested classes are below.
- Intro to UI Design with Meg Lewis
- Basics of Wireframing with Jessica Harlee
If you'd like to, you can choose to connect a custom domain name to your portfolio website. See below for the instructions on how to do this for each of the platforms.
- Cargo
- Virb
- Behance
- Squarespace

Check out this article from 99U on how to manage your online precense.

Cargo has a great article on designing the thumbnails, but this applies to all platforms.

Read this article to learn more for your About page.

Check out online showcases such as Site Inspire for more examples.

Suzy Lanza

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