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Do’s and Don’ts of Submitting Your Web Design Portfolio

Recently I was reviewing some web design portfolios and it made me think of things you should and should not do when submitting your portfolio for a job:

Only Submit URLs To Active Sites

Submit sites that the reviewer can actually visit.  If I am evaluating your portfolio, I don’t want to see a link to a site that you did 5 years ago that has been redesigned by someone else, or a site that you are working on but is not live yet.

Check The URLs You Are Submitting Are Correct

If your site is a .com, don’t put .org unless you want to be not hired.

Make Sure Site Is Still Up

You don’t want to submit a site which isn’t there anymore. Check and make sure any site you submit is still up and running.

Show Recent Additions To Your Portfolio

You might be really proud of that site you did back in 1999, but you don’t need to show designs that are 10 years old.

Don’t Show Sites With Questionable Subject Matter

So you put in a lot of work on that site, but you don’t want to submit something that is going to turn off the people reviewing your portfolio.

Make Sure Your Sites Display Properly In Most Browsers

Perhaps you really hate Internet Explorer and only want to design sites that look right in Firefox. But maybe the people reviewing your portfolio don’t share your passion or hatred for different web browsers. What if the people reviewing your portfolio are using Internet Explorer, or Safari? If your site doesn’t display how it is supposed to, you won’t get hired.

New Design Portfolio/Freelance Site

I figured maybe it was time to update my design portfolio, since I have done a lot of work I am proud of at CU and I’m starting on some freelance projects that I like as well.

Back when I started my freelance business, InMotion Multimedia, I was doing different kinds of work – web, video and print design.  Now I am focusing mostly on web work so I also launched this new site with a new name. Design Flipper.

I got the idea after seeing the house flipper shows advertised on tv and thought it described what I do – take an old site/design and make it into something better.