Hi, I need some help on this condition.
What essential elements MUST fill up the homepage for a simple, yet well-designed portfolio?
Can anyone recommend very simple yet effective portfolio site designs?
More importantly than that, is there an online library of layouts & color schemes for websites?
And how can you connect with what you see on other sites with your own ideas?
It’s been 3 years since I worked on my portfolio website and I have a few ideas, and I’ve been visiting css portfolio sites for inspiration, but nothing’s clicking.
I have a simple goal for my portfolio: 4 pages, Home, Work, About Me, Contact
So far I’ve looked at sites of guys and gals and even though their designs work well for them, it’s difficult to see how I can get inspired for my homepage design.
I think my biggest issue is how I’m going to layout everything. The sites I’ve seen are by people who are bloggers/employees of web companies, so the content that they display on their homepage consists of the latest news or an advertised link to the latest project they’ve created.
But as for me, I’m just like someone who has basically started out in web design…I don’t have anything “new” to advertise.
Next are colors and textures. I tend to like the “urban” style…graffiti inspired designs, but everyone is actually doing that. Since looking on css websites, I’ve realized that people have nifty ideas on design…for example using an illustration of an orange coat as their logo or multi-colored circles inside each other…and yet the design works! Where do they get these ideas from? I want to stay away from the urban style because I don’t want my clients to think I’m only associated with “hip hop”
