[thelist] a portfolio of web work?
Mark Howells
mark at mark.ac
Sun Dec 14 08:11:51 CST 2003
>> Here's a question for folks who make a living doing web work. When
>> someone asks you to bring a portfolio, just how are you representing
>> your online work in a physical manner?
Would they ask a catalogue designer to make a video, to show how the
catalogue concept works? This is a digital environment and clients who
insist on paper or projected presentations to explain the concept of a
website design should be prepared to accept that they won't be able to
appreciate the sites' design or interactive features. Then again, most
people who ask for a paper portfolio are only likely to be interested
in general concepts and pretty screenshots anyway.
The best way of handling offline presentations - if you have the
resources - is to use a laptop. That way, you can pre-prepare your
presentation to an optimal level and you'll know that everything will
perform just as you want it to. I did a presentation once using a
couple of sites burned onto a CD-R and, on arrival, was presented with
an old PC running IE4. The demo site worked, as I'd developed the
sites used in the demo with all browsers in mind, but it didn't look
half as good as if I'd taken a Powerbook running Safari.
Regards
Mark Howells
http://www.mark.ac/
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