A typical online portfolio will contain some kind of representation of the designers work. For graphic designers the portfolio are usually pretty cut-and-dry. Click here, and look at my pretty drawing, right?
Now what if you are strictly on the production side? Sites, banners, widgets, apps… all that stuff. In the past, I have shown a screenshot of the site with a link to launch the site. The problem I’m having now with that method is that previous clients have changed the creative of the site since I last worked on it, and as the often do, screwed it up royally.
So the question is: How should a flash production designer show his/her work online?
No matter how you structure or design it, people will still have to “click here and look at pretty drawings”
Its how you engage the user and display your pretty pictures that matters.
And to do that you need to be a usability expert, and a sociology expert, because there is a whole science behind how users think and use a website
**[COLOR=DarkRed]*EDIT: try not to post links back to the client’s actual site, like you said, they have every right to change it, and if they do, that looks bad on you.
Your best bet would be to back up all the sites you make and present those “locally” ie: hosted on your own server, where you won’t have clients mucking you up…
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You might see if Shadowbox would work for you. It’s like lightbox, but it can also display Flash files, movies, and other stuff.
I had to make a few local pages for sites in the past. With my newer flash portfolio I kinda cut out all the “dead” or “changed” projects altogether… Just felt so lame showcasing stuff that’s not even there yet. I still got a few local pages in my portfolio though. For stuff that doesn’t have a fixed location (Banners above anything else)…
