20 Project: Creating a Portfolio Page
This chapter covers
- Planning and sketching your portfolio page
- Choosing typefaces and colors for your page
- Adding the page text and images
- Adding contact information
If you do creative work—illustration, writing, music, fine art, or even web design—you owe it to yourself and your career to put yourself out there and tell the world how talented you are. How do you do that? Social media is the standard way of blowing your own horn these days. That's fine, but when you use someone else's platform to talk yourself up, you're giving up lots of control over how you present yourself. It's always better to control your own message, and the best way to do that is to build your own online presence. For creative types, that online stake in the ground should include a portfolio page that showcases your best or your most recent work.
This chapter takes you through the process of putting together a simple portfolio page. I'll be concentrating on many of the techniques you learned here in Part 4 (such as in-page links, typography, and colors), but by the end, you'll see how to build a sophisticated portfolio page that'll put your best creative foot forward.