Comments on: Online Folio Solutions Series

By: Katie Baird

Katie Baird — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:38:59 +0000

Great idea for a series. I’ll try to follow it as you post new installments (found you via Twitter when you began following me). Cheers.

By: Joel Sheldon

Joel Sheldon — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:39:48 +0000

hey mate – all looks great! if you want me to contribute anything feel free to contact me. Id love to help in anyway i can. cheers

Joel

By: Online Folio Solutions Series Part 3: Fig Dig Review | design droplets

Online Folio Solutions Series Part 3: Fig Dig Review | design droplets — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:30:34 +0000

[...] Enjoy and thanks for visiting! Welcome to the third installment of the Folio review Series Part 1 (Coroflot) Part 2 (Carbon Made) Part 3 (Fig Dig) Part 4 (Behance) Part 5 (WordPress) Launched in February [...]

By: Carbonmade Review | design droplets

Carbonmade Review | design droplets — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:59:22 +0000

[...] this, the second part of the series, I will be reviewing Carbonmade. (Part 1) Running since Feb 2006, Carbonmade is a web 2.0 online folio hosting solution produced by a group [...]

By: Raph Goldsworthy

Raph Goldsworthy — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:07:41 +0000

Bobbi,

As a designer I think that it is worthwhile to have a your own personal folio website and a folio at a free folio hosting solution like one of the ones mentioned in my article. The main reason for this is that the folio hosted at the free solution is connected into a very large network of other folios. This has several positives, the main one being that potential employers know that they can go to that one place to find folios and it will appear in the search results there. Where as with your own website you might appear in google or of course it may get visited if you hand it out to people on a resume or business card.

Most free folio sites have a place for you to add in a link to your own website folio and since its free and you just have to upload the work you have already prepared for your own folio website what have you got to lose?

Thank taking the time to visit and read design droplets. Please keep in touch?

Raph

By: Bobbi Jo Woods

Bobbi Jo Woods — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:53:35 +0000

Thanks for this post. A good reminder of what is out there for free folio stuff, and some new ones (to me anyway).

Question for you… as a designer, do you feel it’s necessary to also have a page up at a ‘folio site somewhere, even if you have a portfolio online at your own web site? I’m sometimes overwhelmed by all the options.

PS – Found your blog via the “140 characters or less” Problogger challenge!