What is the best way to make a portfolio site?

Which way is better to make a website? Html, flash, or Photoshop?

uhh dude well you can use anything... its the way you display it that counts... i can help you if you want, just hit me up on aim. LeBron 0wns Y0u... copy and paste or you will get it wrong trust me

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I am not a dude, i am girl. Help is appreciated.

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Firstly, it's the content that's the most important thing. You could have a really cool looking site, but if it doesn't have anything remotely valuable on it, there's no point.

Secondly, you can't choose between HTML, Flash and Photoshop.

- HTML is the basic code language.

- Flash (usually) gets embedded into HTML or XHTML

- Photoshop helps with the design, but there's no way to display a Photoshop image without using a code base

For my site, I made all of the images and the template in Photoshop, then sliced it. I then coded a base page in Dreamweaver using the sliced images.

#448898

My site is made using handcoded basic HTML, a few random images, and SimpleViewer Flash software.

#448908

U should be able to incorporate all three... I mean you use photoshop to create the website's graphics (eg- photos or website banners) , flash to create any of the animations (eg- flashy animated menus) and then use html to bring it all together and to have pages link together etc...

#448915

http://www.ravian-band.de

The Design is simply done with Photoshop. Then I slized to graphic into smaller ones. Add some

container or tables to struct your site.

If you have any questions, you should ask me, too. I'm doing websites as work.

#448933

Can you explain to me

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#448938

Uh, just search around google, and maybe pick up a book, that's how I learned.

Anyway, basically,

is dividing up the page, and you can put a background or a border or other things in CSS that you want.

#448960

yeah div layers is the first thing i learned to do, I was 9 years old haha but no effence... but basically you just learn css and then just use this code:

Content inside layer

#449130

Hah, 9 years old? Woah.

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#449698

There are a few good articles out there to help you get going on creating a portfolio. Just try googling a few keywords.

The best portfolios are fairly simple and straightforward with clear examples of work, followed by descriptions and if at all possible, full size or good sized images.

Here are a few good examples:

http://www.miguelripoll.com/#

http://www.squidfingers.com/work/

http://www.attitudedesign.co.uk/portfolio_all.php

http://www.mcgillis.com/

and here is an article, "Five Steps to a better design portfolio"

*note: a few of those sites listed were posted in the above article or comments

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U should be able to incorporate all three... I mean you use photoshop to create the website's graphics (eg- photos or website banners) , flash to create any of the animations (eg- flashy animated menus) and then use html to bring it all together and to have pages link together etc...

no one uses or likes flash. sorry, but it's horrible from usability standpoint [loading, no native controls/commands etc..., not to mention all the hideous flash websites created by flash newbs]

http://www.ravian-band.de

The Design is simply done with Photoshop. Then I slized to graphic into smaller ones. Add some

container or tables to struct your site..

please no tables. please. spacer.gifs + words + images ≠ tabular data

yeah div layers is the first thing i learned to do, I was 9 years old haha but no effence... but basically you just learn css and then just use this code:

Content inside layer

please no inline styles

pick up a copy of css zen book, experiment, read through w3schools, experiment, experiments, & experiment

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