Setting up a portfolio website
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I am trying to find some more information about setting up a digital portfolio, in this case a website on which I can show my skills and the projects I've done over the years. While doing some search actions on google I thought: There must be at least someone on codeproject who can point me to some good information or show their website to me as a source of inspiration. So if anyone knows a good source of information on the subject or can show me his/her portfolio, I'd be more than happy :)
WM.
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I am trying to find some more information about setting up a digital portfolio, in this case a website on which I can show my skills and the projects I've done over the years. While doing some search actions on google I thought: There must be at least someone on codeproject who can point me to some good information or show their website to me as a source of inspiration. So if anyone knows a good source of information on the subject or can show me his/her portfolio, I'd be more than happy :)
WM.
Yaaarrrr What about weapons of mass-construction?I can just tell you that appearance does matter. The website should really look cool and "professional". You might consider using WordPress[^] as publishing platform, choose a nice theme, maybe customise it a little, and you're done. If you keep a blog, you may consider to have a dedicated "section" for your work. A blog tells the visitor that you're still alive and active. And remember, a first-level domain is mandatory. But this is just my opinion. :)
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I can just tell you that appearance does matter. The website should really look cool and "professional". You might consider using WordPress[^] as publishing platform, choose a nice theme, maybe customise it a little, and you're done. If you keep a blog, you may consider to have a dedicated "section" for your work. A blog tells the visitor that you're still alive and active. And remember, a first-level domain is mandatory. But this is just my opinion. :)
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Thanks for the tip Dario, I'm downloading the worpress tools now. I have a domain, so setting this up shouldn't be much of a problem.
WM.
Yaaarrrr What about weapons of mass-construction?WillemM wrote:
Thanks for the tip Dario
You're welcome. :)
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I am trying to find some more information about setting up a digital portfolio, in this case a website on which I can show my skills and the projects I've done over the years. While doing some search actions on google I thought: There must be at least someone on codeproject who can point me to some good information or show their website to me as a source of inspiration. So if anyone knows a good source of information on the subject or can show me his/her portfolio, I'd be more than happy :)
WM.
Yaaarrrr What about weapons of mass-construction?What kind of skills and projects do you have to show? I know plenty of excellent web-dev portfolios but have to honestly say I have never seen a good desktop-dev portfolio site. Either way though you could learn a few things from . Plenty of portfolio sites in there.
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eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
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What kind of skills and projects do you have to show? I know plenty of excellent web-dev portfolios but have to honestly say I have never seen a good desktop-dev portfolio site. Either way though you could learn a few things from . Plenty of portfolio sites in there.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
I got loads of desktop programs to show that I created to learn now technologies and basic design, implementation and testing skills. The same goes for some enterprise projects that the last few years. There's a lot of interesting material I think: - An IPv6 FTP Client/server - A chatserver using J2EE - A Webshop using message oriented middleware - The same webshop using various remoting technologies (RMI, .NET Remoting, Corba) - A simple database engine to do some research in how databases actually work on the inside. - A unix application that can mount and read/write files to an inode based filesystem (Unix7 filesystem). - A unix application to test how fast various memory allocation and freelist management algoritms are - A java application that can create and calculate a PERT network - A java application that can sort a list of items through the use of various algoritms (This was to learn the algoritms and see how fast they are) The list is long, longer than I want to display here. Although not all related to desktop development, but that's not the idea to focus on that :)
WM.
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I am trying to find some more information about setting up a digital portfolio, in this case a website on which I can show my skills and the projects I've done over the years. While doing some search actions on google I thought: There must be at least someone on codeproject who can point me to some good information or show their website to me as a source of inspiration. So if anyone knows a good source of information on the subject or can show me his/her portfolio, I'd be more than happy :)
WM.
Yaaarrrr What about weapons of mass-construction?Setting up a portfolio website is pretty easy - still depending on your web skills such as html and css. Its also not bad to know photoshop or something comparable. also you have to make the decision between what serversided language to use. you will need on if you want to go a little further than just setting up one single page. i recommend PHP - i hope i wont get stoned by you all ô_Ô it's easy to learn and to set up. if you already know c# by heart i recommend you to use asp, of course. Now you might be asking for further help such as with the basic design, slicing and content management, you will find it all on www.pixel2life.com from photoshop tutorials to how to implement basic usability guidelines.
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Setting up a portfolio website is pretty easy - still depending on your web skills such as html and css. Its also not bad to know photoshop or something comparable. also you have to make the decision between what serversided language to use. you will need on if you want to go a little further than just setting up one single page. i recommend PHP - i hope i wont get stoned by you all ô_Ô it's easy to learn and to set up. if you already know c# by heart i recommend you to use asp, of course. Now you might be asking for further help such as with the basic design, slicing and content management, you will find it all on www.pixel2life.com from photoshop tutorials to how to implement basic usability guidelines.
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The point is, I don't have much time to create a custom site. So using a standard tool will most likely be the best solution for my problem :)
WM.
Yaaarrrr What about weapons of mass-construction?hm, then maybe you should pay someone to do it for you. you wount get too far without doing things yourself. you can use the joomla! CMS. http://www.joomla.org/ you just need some webspace with php and a mysql db running, install it, get a nice template (there's s*** loads of them on the net) and youre done. that is maybe the easiest thing to do, because distributing content over this particular CMD is fast and easy. PLUS you get a lot of functionality like polls and commenting and news systems by two clicks. just try it http://demo.joomla.org/ the template is a bit crappy but as i said you'll find one that fits.
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hm, then maybe you should pay someone to do it for you. you wount get too far without doing things yourself. you can use the joomla! CMS. http://www.joomla.org/ you just need some webspace with php and a mysql db running, install it, get a nice template (there's s*** loads of them on the net) and youre done. that is maybe the easiest thing to do, because distributing content over this particular CMD is fast and easy. PLUS you get a lot of functionality like polls and commenting and news systems by two clicks. just try it http://demo.joomla.org/ the template is a bit crappy but as i said you'll find one that fits.