Great portfolio host sites

[NancyCarter]

I thought it might be a good idea to have a single thread listing portfolio hosting sites. Perhaps we could list site fees, advantages, disadvantages, limitations, restrictions... etc.

I noticed several posts asking about online portfolios.

Here are some:

http://www.creativebinge.com/ free, 21 images

http://www.coroflot.com/ free portfolio and sharing of files

http://www.fliich.com/ appears to be free

www.creativehotlist.com ($35 for 6 months)

http://www.behance.net (beta) By invite

http://www.creativeshake.com/ Basic portfolio, free, 5 images. Enhanced subscriptions for $10, $22, $49 per month.

-- EDIT -- Here is a compiled list of the suggested links in this thread:

www.carbonmade.com – 35 images, free

http://www.photobucket.com – free, image size limitations

www.flickr.com – 100MB, Free. For $25 a year, Unlimited

www.designfirms.org – free, unlimited

http://www.drop.io/ - no account necessary, free

www.blogger.com – free but shouldn’t be used for commercial use.

www.deviantart.com – free, couldn’t find limitations

http://www.blackturtlemedia.com/ – free, couldn’t find limitations

There are a few others, but left out of this list because I was unsure that they were good options considering the features of all the above sites.

[koodorihitori]

uhm www.carbonmade.com is pretty cute, but they have a limit D:

[NancyCarter]

Originally Posted by koodorihitori

uhm carbonmade.com is pretty cute, but they have a limit D:

Very cute! Thanks.

[_Redrum]

Great idea. I stickied this thread. Hopefully the question will come up much less often now

http://www.photobucket.com
Not technically a portfolio site, but good free image hosting. Limit on image dimensions is the only thing I'm aware of. Can create albums, sub-albums, etc.

[NancyCarter]

Originally Posted by _Redrum

Great idea. I stickied this thread. Hopefully the question will come up much less often now

http://www.photobucket.com
Not technically a portfolio site, but good free image hosting. Limit on image dimensions is the only thing I'm aware of. Can create albums, sub-albums, etc.

Thanks!

I've seen www.flickr.com used for portfolios, too!

[virtuosoonline]

www.designfirms.org also hosts your portfolio

[NancyCarter]

I just found this one: http://www.drop.io/

Cool - no account is necessary. That's so unusual.

Drop.io enables you to create simple private sharing points called "drops."

The service has no email signup and no "accounts." Each drop is private, and only as accessible as you choose to deliberately make it. Create multiple drops, add any type of media, and share or subscribe as you want. To make a drop just click the big red button that says 'drop it' (more)

[Chung Dha]

www.blogger.com , wordpress or any blog type websites. Its all free you can upload pictures and movies. Also edit the site to your own liking. Just don't make it look too commercially like putting up prices.

[DigiPhalStib]

what do you think about uploading some pics on photobucket.com? I thought, that should be enough, to call it a "portfolio"...in my opinion that´s way too much stress - only to take part in some design contests! It´s like: "you´ve gotta do this, you´ve gotta do that first..." - actually I´m pretty much tired of this...I´m just a hobby freelancer trying to get some input and learn from others!

[_Redrum]

I already mentioned Photobucket

[JLen]

So would a portfolio on Myspace work? Just Curious, but it would also be free.

[Tuoni]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned deviantart yet
you can upload all of your art and designs at www.deviantart.com
you can subscribe to support the community, but you can use it totally free as well

[kenny082001]

try this one, www.000webhost.com

[Melodia]

a couple more.....

http://www.blackturtlemedia.com

http://filetable.com

[NancyCarter]

I don't know myspace very well, even tho I maintain my own. Can visitor look at images without having an account or being logged in?

Originally Posted by JLen

So would a portfolio on Myspace work? Just Curious, but it would also be free.

[Jiayi]

Although I haven't used this yet, how about http://www.viewbook.com/?
I just came across it today and really liked its clean layout.
The free basic account will only allow 100 images (unlimited presentations/portfolio pages).

Here's an example of an existing portfolio: http://baillairge.viewbook.com/

[ghbarratt]

Originally Posted by Tuoni

I'm surprised no one has mentioned deviantart yet
you can upload all of your art and designs at www.deviantart.com
you can subscribe to support the community, but you can use it totally free as well

Actually, deviantart was in the very first post.

But deviantart is one of the best (or at least most significant), so it deserves special attention.

How about www.illustratorworld.com ? Although it is more exclusive to vector artists.

I personally like my own portfolio site = http://ghbarratt.com/studio , but because I do not get many visitors, I created a deviantart and illustratorworld account.

[zimex]

nice thread.

i guess some designers use there myspace profile as there portfolio. i guess designer's that into music and apparel and shirt design. And i think blog to is a easy way to put your portfolio. currently making my portfolio and thanks to the thread starter i have so many options.

[PCALUALY]

Thanks for sharing all this info and alerting me to the many options I have to pick from




decisions decisions

[GemDesignz]

thanks i only knew of deviantART