Portfolio Site Planning

Who Is It For? Art Directors, Graphic Designers, Interactive Designers, Motion Designers, Illustrators, Sound Designers.

Cost: Free with your Adobe CC subscription. When you create an Adobe Portfolio a Behance page is automatically created for you (Adobe owns Behance).

Portfolio Overview: Adobe Portfolio has multiple templates for the and lots of customization capabilities after you choose a basic template. Building a portfolio site is very quick. KCAD Alum. Examples:

• Landon Holzworth

• Isaac Taracks

• Lucas Linhares

Behance Overview : contains job postings that can be searched by creative fields. Art Directors and other collaborators are browsing the portfolios. Custom thumbs can be uploaded. The layout cannot be customized.

Student Examples:

• Fredy Santiago

• Jericho Castillo

• Jacob Pryer

Who is it for? Entertainment artists, include 2D concept and production artists, and Digital 3D Artists

Cost: Free

Overview: Contains job postings that Can be sorted into Permanent, Contract and Freelance categories as well as Work Remotely or Relocation Assistance. Many job postings ask you to link to your ArtStation page. It includes; social networking and art director searching . Custom thumbs can also be uploaded and this is the only way to customize it.

Student Examples:

• Kevin Young

• Piper Adonya

• Nate Hladki

• Brandy Koloski

• Kaleb Reynolds (Pro-site)

• Brenna Pilotti (Pro Site)

Who Is It For: Everyone. It is simply, very powerful, and a very popular website builder that can be used for any purpose. Especially well suited for graphic designers and others that would like a blank canvas from which to express their design talents. Many professional design agencies provide WIC website building services for their clients.

Cost: Free runs small WIX ads on your site. Pro site costs $4.00 - $19.00/month and removes ads. You can build your site, then launch and upgrade if you wish..

Overview: The only builder of its type where we can start with a blank page and create a completely custom site. No coding is knowledge required. Light box widgets do not allow control of thumbs. Scrolling-style pages do. The mobile versions require a little extra configuration work.

Student Examples:

• Corey McGill

• John Ladebauche

• Jose Garza

• Krista Hill

• Leigha Vashaw

• McKenzie Tucker

• Patrick Ryan

• Alec Valitutti (sound design)

Who Is It For: Everyone. It is simply a super-easy website builder that can be used for any purpose.

Cost: Free with no ads

Overview: No coding knowledge required and extra-easy to use, it integrates seamlessly with Google apps. Fast indexing for search results. Very limited number of design possibilities.

Student Examples:

• The DAD Hub

• EPIC Apps

• I-See-U Blueprint

• Powderkeg

• Infinity Mode

• This Professional Practices Website

Who Is It For: Everyone. It is a website builder that can be used for any purpose.

Cost: Free for basic - runs very small Weebly ads on your site - $4 - $8 / month for a pro site

Overview: You must use one of their templates, which can be a drwback when attempting to customize your site. No coding knowledge required.

Examples

• Colin Winchell

• Micki Taylor

• Kaitlynne Heyworth

Who Is It For: Designers that want to show off Wordpress skills. 40% of the internet is built on Wordpress and designers wishing to procure work in the web design field will do well to have a Wordpress site. Visual builders like DIVI offer a WIX-like experience, albeit more powerful. To use in this class, a student must already be familiar with Wordpress/Divi

Costs: requires $2-$12/ month hosting (3-12 months paid in advance). must have custom domain (about $12)

Overview: No coding knowledge is required. requires some testing to work on most browsers and tablets. Requires a little more time investment than others

Student Examples

• The Epic Project

• Neuromedia

• Epic Science