[thelist] Creating a portfolio
Barney Carroll
barney at textmatters.com
Thu Feb 1 04:48:29 CST 2007
Chris Ditty wrote:
> This is what I was thinking about including.
> Screenshots
Sorry Chris, too lazy/busy to read this whole thread but I just caught
this: If I can give you just a tiny bit of advice, a screenshot alone as
evidence for a website is pretty bad unless you're primarily a graphic
designer. If you pride yourself in CSS, scripting and/or markup skills,
usability, interactivity and accessibility, an actual web page is just
loads better.
The serious client will be clever enough (by now) to know that a web
page isn't just a series of big scolling pictures with text, and what
most are after is the stuff that pictures can't do.
By selling yourself on these, you are effectively proving nothing but
your artistry and graphic design skills.
> blurbs on each site
> bullet points on what I do for each site.
These are great, but the client has to take your word for it. I believe
you should show them. Whatever happened to the original code? Give them
evidence via samples of this work. If this position is as a webmaster,
the chances are your graphic design skills aren't even going to come
into the work they want from you.
Regards,
Barney
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