maybe im retarded; i dont understand why.

Mebbe yer ma dropped you as a wean?

I'm not trying to be a jerk or anything but this seems more like a personal blog site instead of a portfolio. I had to click on content > artwork > Album:Artwork > personal to get to your latest work.

I want a site with a bar of thumbnails along the bottom that you can cycle through and the full size image above that, I've looked into gallery and 4images but they all seem to share the same annoying trait of too many clicks.

Did you bother to read this thread or just click?

My public site is a blog, not a portfolio.

Yes, I've read it and you are talking about setting up a blog with a photo gallery, so I fail to see the "quick portfolio". I'm surprised I'm the first one to mention anything because portfolio sites like this usually get the "keep it simple, open on your best piece" comments here.

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Ok, I'm trying to be a jerk now:

rename the thread to setting up a quick blog

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I think the name's fine. It could also be renamed setting up a quick blog which, if only used for posting images, can operate perfectly as a portfolio, though, if we want to be specific.

(Edit: Since you've edited your post would you like me to remove the quote?)

alright Rick, I take it back (damn your eyes!)

I guess the word blog automatically puts a bad taste in my mouth. I gave it a shot expecting to hate the end result but It bothers me less than the frames that the Photoshop Automator uses.

wordpress
http://artbyjustin.com/blog/

VS

photoshop automator
http://www.artbyjustin.com/

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Yes, I've read it and you are talking about setting up a blog with a photo gallery, so I fail to see the "quick portfolio". I'm surprised I'm the first one to mention anything because portfolio sites like this usually get the "keep it simple, open on your best piece" comments here.

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I'm also going to agree with you. I definitely wouldn't treat anyone's site seriously who had this type of treatment. It's ok for the trendy people who want something quick and simple, but as far as the best way to present something, I find it poor. I'd prefer to look at a directory listing of jpegs.

To expound: Blog type websites are good for incremental updates. However 99.9% of portfolio sites are not checked incrementally. Someone visits one time, and wants to browse all content. Having long lists of posted images is not a good way to do this. There is a reason almost every single site offering a large amount of images uses thumbnails. *hint* it's not because they were waiting for Web 2.0 to be invented.

I don't understand how this is any easier than making a simple html page with small thumbnails linked to larger images. That would not only be easier to navigate, it'd have less garbage to visually sift through.

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I don't understand how this is any easier than making a simple html page with small thumbnails linked to larger images.

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Well, it does include hosting.

The main point of this was that rather than someone learning (bad) HTML and spending ages making a horrib, hard to navigate website (we've seen a half dozen of those lately, remember), you get a VERY quick, fairly-professional looking (with 40 odd styles to pick from as standard) site.

A site that is hosted for free (with free iamge hosting on e the site, or via flickr), doesn't have an address with /~ in it, and is simple to update.

Pior database driven site is much better for a portfolio, or people could use Gallery (like I did http://www.rsart.co.uk/wp-gallery2.php?g2_itemId=164) and make the main page on their site (for my site I choose NOT to have a game art gallery up front, it's not a gallery).

Not everyone has access to php however, certianly with most free hosts, and those that do rarely have the knowledge to use it well or the time to learn.

Fair enough, this is slightly better than most of the horrid html sites we have seen, and the free hosting is nice (though I still say a url with anything in it other than your info is a ref flag). I still say that a handcrafted folio with an eye focused towards usability and ease of use is much preferable. Bad Html < wordpress < well-designed html.

aaaaargh, ive got a job possibility that needs to see some work, and ive been lazy over the last couple of months so i aint got a working updated portfolio.

so i thought id try this just to get sommit reasonable to show.

ive hit a problem though i have all my images in a photobucket account but i cant seem to access them in wordpress.

ive got an account set up, and when i go to edit/post anything instead of getting the normal posting box thing with buttons to create the cody crap (ie click on button, paste image address, write rest of post, post) aint there and my attempts at getting images in using type in the posting box bring up the image icon but no image loads.... aaaaagh.

apparently wordpress has a beginner and advance mode to change the post writing, but when i go to where the help guide tells me it aint there......

aaaargh pooh.

if someone could show me the correct html tag to get an image uploaded in wordpress, or tell me whats going on id much thankfull

hang on after 3 hour of hair pulling it was dead simple


bleh its easy when you know how to fecking do it

ok this is my new site took me roughly an hour to set-up (not including scratching of head 2hrs), including uploading images (longest part)

what do you think.

gonna make a few changes here and there

my brand new webspace for free cheers rick

actually ill probably make alot of changes, the order of the pages, the front page image, the colours once i get the upgrade, etc etc

I think the logo you've used to watermark all your images is somewhat distracting.

But perhaps this post would be better on P&P?

Thanks Rick, this is way better than deviantart. hah!
Here's my go at, not much of a professional set up, but just something to get my stuff out there: erikwithak.wordpress.com

Here we go... (hijacking this thread a bit)

I decided to redesign my webpage and since my webcoding god/friend will do all the nasty coding for me i will have to come up with a design so i´ve been checking out piors page alot since i like what he has. I wanted to get away from that dark "haxxor"-underground thing i´ve been having for awhile now aswell.

Here it is as it would look when finished. Banner is a WIP and the characters will be presented the same way as pior does it, (can´t render it out right now since im on the family comp).

http://www.pigged.net/stuff/designte...finaltest3.jpg



Is it to simplistic? Does it look like shit to you? Am i an idiot? Some guy said i should go black-tribal-border on it instead of the plain ones i use now but... hmm. I like it right now even though it might be plain.

Same comment than in my email reply:
http://www.elpasorugs.com/paintedsha.../ghvaquero.jpg

-edit haha ok I see you removed them now :P

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http://www.elpasorugs.com/paintedsha.../ghvaquero.jpg

[/ QUOTE ]Dang you´re fast. I also edited my post. Just so you know. Im putting the silhouettes in right now to better show what i mean. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

EDIT: You saw the "behind the scenes"-picture. This was the public one without those renders. Im not that much of an idiot, really.

Bah no problem! now get that website up and running! [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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Bah no problem! now get that website up and running! [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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Why get a website running when you can sit and tweak for all eternity. Here´s another one. Don´t know about ze colorz though but.. i kinda like the menu. Will see if i can put some nice graphics into it. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]


http://www.pigged.net/stuff/design2.jpg

Notorious P.I.G: Possibly if you're looking for feedback on your site designs, you could post a new thread with them so as not to clutter up this one unnecessarily... or you could even put them in the "What are you working on?" thread.

IMHO you should either make that diagonal-pattern background into a solid colour, or a larger-scale pattern... at the moment it just looks like pixelly noise and is tearing my eyes away from the main content.

While this might be a quick way to set up your folio; this is even quicker:

http://www.carbonmade.com/

looks pretty decent too.

Here's my go at a portfolio blog. I must say Wordpress lends itself pretty well to this type of thing...custom pages = win

http://snowfly.wordpress.com/

nice design Snowfly, and totally 'you' in terms of style.

This http://snowfly.wordpress.com/portfolio/ should be the intro page tho!