BUILDING A NEW CREATIVE PORTFOLIO WEBSITE
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Last month, I decided that my portfolio website needed a refresh. I had pieced the original site together with images and if you know anything about web design, this is a big no-no. It might look great, but if your site is only made of images, search engines don’t read any of the text on your page. Your website will be impossible to find. What’s the point of a website if no one will see it?
Also, since the site was built for desktop, it was not responsive. Also a big no-no. Today, a high percentage of people are browsing on their tablets or mobile devices and not even going near a computer. No one is going to waste time and effort trying to zoom and pan around their tiny screens to view your website.
This left me in quite a conundrum. I am not a web developer, nor did I want to invest in an expensive, custom coded website.
With my design background, I’m fairly comfortable with HTML coding. I couldn’t build one from scratch, but I could work around with an existing template to make it my own. So that is exactly what I did. A Google search for Free Responsive Web Templates brought me to a nice library of templates I could re-work for my own purposes.
After you’ve selected a template that you feel would best suit your needs, you can download all the files and elements. I used Dreamweaver CC to work through the personalization. It was a bit of a learn-as-I-go process, but I’m so happy that I put myself through the sort of “forced education”. For those of you that are curious, I use a great, reasonable hosting site called A Small Orange.
Now my site has been sky-rocketed into the 21st century. It’s fully optimized for search and mobile-friendly. I’d say that’s a mission accomplished.
Check out the new website!
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