Building Your Portfolio Website: Six Things to Never Do
Great advice from Carl Alviani on the don’ts of creating an online portfolio, including this pearl of wisdom: “don’t think you’re a web designer unless you actually are.”
I know I did: my first go around a few years back, I holed up in my room for about a month, teaching myself Dreamweaver, calling up friends to ask them what exactly a Style Sheet was, and learning a lot in the process. It was fun, and engaging, and taught me plenty of useful skills, but the resulting website was utter crap.
