Online portfolios.

[Jerlene]

I'm trying to make an online profile. Right now I'm still using my old PhotoBucket, but I'm about to hit the limit. What do you guys recommend?
I'm also making a site to feature my work so I'm looking for any scripts or plugins that might work. Any suggestions would be much appreciated! 🙂

 

[Ajay]

Well, i've always believed that if you're going to showcase your own work, you should start from scratch on a portfolio. Even if it's simple HTML and CSS, it gives a professional opinion, rather than using a premade script/theme. I can help you get started if you want.

 

[Jerlene]

I may consider it, but I prefer premade. It's going to be an extension of a site built on WP so it would just work better.

 

[iMage]

Wordpress is about the easiest solution for portfolios.. I do have a copy of AVCMS i could sell you a licence to if you want. Its a great script, i just no longer use it

 

[Page]

I was going to say WordPress as there are so much that you can do. Easy to use and allot of plugins and the site only needs to be basic.

 

[Jerlene]

Wordpress is about the easiest solution for portfolios.. I do have a copy of AVCMS i could sell you a licence to if you want. Its a great script, i just no longer use it

That looks promising. I know you do a lot of graphics. What do you use personally?

 

[iMage]

Wordpress is about the easiest solution for portfolios.. I do have a copy of AVCMS i could sell you a licence to if you want. Its a great script, i just no longer use it

That looks promising. I know you do a lot of graphics. What do you use personally?

I just use wordpress right now

 

[Jerlene]

I decided to go with imgbb for now.

 

[Ajay]

I'd still suggest working on your own portfolio from scratch, since they're basically designed to show off your skillset.

 

[Page]

I decided to go with imgbb for now.

is it easy!

 

[Jerlene]

I'd still suggest working on your own portfolio from scratch, since they're basically designed to show off your skillset.

Which is exactly what I'm doing and precisely the reason I said "for now".

I decided to go with imgbb for now.

is it easy!

Incredibly.

 

[Ajay]

Which is exactly what I'm doing and precisely the reason I said "for now".

Psh, it's already been two months since the topic was created.

 

[Jerlene]

And? Did I mention when I started using imgbb? Absolutely not. So what's the relevance to that reply? Nothing, as far as I can see.

 

[Ash]

@Jerlene if you're still looking at working with WordPress, I wrote about a free portfolio theme for WP recently here - https://adminloop.com/themeforest-monthly-wp-freebies-february-2019/

 

[Jerlene]

Thanks. I checked it out. I was working on a WordPress portfolio plugin but I don't have the time to complete it. Glacier looks promising though.

 

[Bella8000]

If you plan on creating a website for your portfolio, you can check out the hPage Website Builder: https://www.hpage.com

It's a free website but there are upgrades too and you can also store your photos and other files there. Kinda like Photobucket and have them directly uploaded to your website with them.

 

[Jerlene]

That's probably not the route I'm going to take for this particular project, but I may use it in the future. Thank you!

 

[Savvi]

Why do you actually prefer premade? It's your portfolio website after all - I think it'd be more impressive to see if you actually built it from scratch. That being said, if you are any good at development, you should try and build it yourself. Perhaps make a WordPress theme out of it. You could use a custom post type for your portfolio projects and make them display somewhere in a way you like.

 

[meetdilip]

WordPress sounds like a great idea if you are not good with HTML template making.

 

[Jerlene]

I'd suggest WordPress and if you have no knowledge on how to code or format just get a theme and download a drag and drop plugin.

I use Elementor for quick landing pages.

I was looking at that but it didn't talk to me. Maybe I need to look into it again.