Excerpts from the book “Creating Your Digital Portfolio: The Essential Guide to Showcasing Your Design Work Online” by Ian Clazie:
Design resources
- 24 Ways – Web design and development articles and tutorials, 24ways.org
- Abduzeedo – Graphic design inspiration and Photoshop tutorials, abduzeedo.com
- The Artists Web – Services and information for artists online, theartistsweb.co.uk
- Ffffound! – Image bookmarking service, ffffound.com
- The FWA: Favorite Website Awards – Showcase of cool sites, thefwa.com
- QBN – Design industry news and discussion, qbn.com
- Smashing Magazine – Web design and development blog, smashingmagazine.com
Technical resources
- Blogo – Blog publishing tool for Macs, drinkbrainjuice.com/blogo
- Indexhibit – Do it yourself content management system, indexhibit.org
- jQuery Plugins – Useful Javascript library, plugins.jquery.com
- Media Temple – Hosting provider, mediatemple.net
- Rackspace – Hosting provider, rackspace.com and rackspace.co.uk
- TechSmith – Creators of screen capture software Snagit and Camtasia, techsmith.com
- TopCoder – Development crowdsourcing, topcoder.com
- Vimeo – Creative video posting community, vimeo.com
- Webtoolkit4.me – Resources for web designers and developers, webtoolkit4.me
Free services
- Behance Network – Creative social network, behance.net
- Blogger – Blogging platform, blogger.com
- Carbonmade – Professional portfolio service, carbonmade.com
- Cargo Collective – Professional portfolio service, cargocollective.com
- Coroflot – Portfolio service and creative community, coroflot.com
- Flickr! – Photography oriented social network, flickr.com
- Krop Creative Database – Professional portfolio service, krop.com/creativedatabase
- RedBubble – Art gallery and community, redbubble.com
- Tumblr – Microblogging platform, tumblr.com
- WordPress – Blogging platform, wordpress.com
iPad apps for presenting
Legalities
- The Copyright Website – Copyright information and resources, benedict.com
- Copyright – Wikipedia entry, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/copyright
- Creative Commons – Free licensing platform, creativecommons.org
- Derivative work – Wikipedia entry, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/derivative_work
- Digital Millennium Copyright Act – Wikipedia entry, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/digital_millennium_copyright_act
- Fair use – Wikipedia entry, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fair_use
- U.S. Copyright Office – Official government office, copyright.gov
Creative jobs
- Behance, behance.net/job_list
- Coroflot, coroflot.com/public/jobs_browse.asp
- Krop, krop.com
- Krop jobs on Twitter, twitter.com/krop_jobs
People to follow on Twitter
- @abduzeedo
- @behance
- @designerdepot
- @fwa
- @ilovetypography
- @ISO50
- @mlane
- @qbncertified
- @ryancarson
- @smashingmag
- @swissmiss
- @zeldman
Inspiring portfolios
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