I haven’t had much need for a portfolio in the past. My job searches have been pretty pedestrian. Either I look in the nearest local paper for something in the same 1000-foot radius of what I might want to do, or I already know someone who is offering me the job. My few years as a freelancer/businessman were really stressful because of this need to constantly get work. When next I graduate, I will be taking a much different approach.
In the short-term, I need some interesting and lucrative projects to fill the next 12 weeks. A consulting gig I had lined up for this summer devolved into a start-up, and there’s no way I can take gambles like that with three other mouths to help feed. So, I’ve been dusting off the data CDs in the recent archive and trying to complete my first real portfolio. For what it’s worth, here it is … albeit in prototype form.
After listening to Elizabeth Boling talk about portfolios this past academic year, I’ve been trying to figure out what I want to say about my work and my abilities. I decided to emphasize the process, and not the projects. This makes for a different kind of navigation structure that I haven’t pulled off yet. It is also my first web layout done exclusively with CSS (with some help from javascript), and all the browser-specific quirks have not been addressed. I’m missing some files from some team projects, too, so some of the visuals and text are just placeholders.
But it’s out there now, ready to fail often to succeed sooner. Feedback anyone?
