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    Need Ideas -- Website Portfolio Design

    So I need a little help. I decided that I wish to make myself a little portfolio online to show off to future employers. Problem is, I suck as design when it comes to making my own ideas. Usually I can get something out if a client asks me to make something, but my own ideas are pretty bad. I've been going through many different designs in my head, all of them are semi-complicated projects but they really don't jazz me, or they're way too complicated for using just Javascript and/or PHP, at least as far as my abilities are concerned. As an aspiring professional website developer this is kind-of a big deal to me.

    I also have the drawing ability of an 8 year old beanbag chair. Which furthur complicates things. I can code just fine, but design is really a weakness. Coming up with my ideas is another problem of mine.

    However, instead of throwing that into future employer's faces that I can't design with a crappy and/or boring looking website, I would rather not show that weakness off.

    So that's where the Pav comes in. I need ideas, this could be just written down, brainstorming, drawings, storyboard, slapstick-comedy, I don't really care. My brain is full of cobwebs and any ideas would help.

    I won't be using Flash or the like, while I can use those programs, I just don't own them, and I don't enjoy using them as it feels like "cheating" to me. I'm weird.

    Anyhow, because people here don't really "know" me I don't expect anything that would reflect my personality. Any help would be appreciated. Who knows, you could see your idea put to life in its very own website... Only with my name plastered all over it. I will give credits if I take an idea verbatim.

    tl;dr:
    I need ideas for my own website cuz I am dumb. Please help!
    Last edited by Red Dragon; 06-28-2010, 09:02 PM.

    #2
    Re: Need Ideas -- Website Portfolio Design

    A portfolio should feature work you have done. What websites have you designed?

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      #3
      Re: Need Ideas -- Website Portfolio Design

      A few, nothing huge. I don't feel the need to discuss them in detail. I was always the developer though, design is definitely not my thing.
      Last edited by Red Dragon; 06-28-2010, 11:13 PM.

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        #4
        Re: Need Ideas -- Website Portfolio Design

        If you have a few dollars to spend, activeden.net sells some great flash templates (a couple of which I have used for friend's sites!) and they are fully customizable via xml - no flash programs or programming skills needed

        Here's the one I liked best - http://activeden.net/item/elite-xml-website/14773 It has picture albums, video embedding, and audio ability.

        There are many others at the home page on their site for templates ( http://activeden.net/category/site-templates )

        Even if not buying, just browsing there will give you ideas for site design.

        Hope that helps...

        MOO!




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          #5
          Re: Need Ideas -- Website Portfolio Design

          I appreciate the idea, I'll give them a look at. But I have extensive flash programming skillz so I could make them myself if I really wanted to. I just don't want to go that way. Anyhow, I may get an idea from them in any case.

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            #6
            Re: Need Ideas -- Website Portfolio Design

            Nothing myself, I am ignorant of such matters, and have worked hard to remain so. Best I could do would be to put you in contact with the people who do my coding, programming, and site designing, and then they could decide whether or not to help you out. If you're interested, let me know.
            "Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity."

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