Tales of a Designer

Redesigned Portfolio

A little over a year ago, I moved my portfolio over to Carbonmade, which makes it easy to post your portfolio. At the time it worked out well, and it was convenient due to the fact that I was very busy. But over the last 6 months, I’ve been thinking about it more and more, and one question stood out that has been nagging me since I first thought about it…

As a web designer, shouldn’t I design and build my own portfolio?

I finally decided to address that question and go back to designing and managing my own portfolio, and I think it was a good decision. I wanted to design something that was easy to update and manage, so I designed a simple solution that meets that need.

Portfolio of John Phillips

The design isn’t groundbreaking, but for only spending a couple hours on the design, I think it turned out pretty well. For the image popups, I used Fancy Zoom, which not only looks great, but is dead simple to use. Overall, I am pleased with how it turned out, and now I don’t have a guilty conscience about not having a portfolio designed by myself. So check it out, and let me know what you think. All comments are welcome.