Week 8 - Portfolio Websites

In my last Blog post I talked about YouTube as a platform to build and upload my work onto. However I have also been looking at portfolio hosting websites where you can create your own website with the tools to customise the look to fit your work. After a lot of searching I have found a few sites that look promising, One of those is Portfolio Box (http://www.portfoliobox.net/). From first glance the templates and examples shown on the homepage look appealing and professional. The site does allow you to start with a basic free account which allows you to upload 40 images and gives you access to the basic templates. However they also give you the option to expand to the pro account which costs around £4 a month. Obviously having the pro account gives you a lot more features like your own domain and a email address and it also allows you to upload 100 images. Compared to the other portfolio sites I've looked at this site seems to be the cheapest.

 Figure. 1. Portfolio Box Homepage

Another portfolio website I've been looking into is 4ormat. 4ormat offer a similar deal to Portfolio Box allowing you to have a free basic start up site but then they allow you to upgrade. However one problem I did find with this site was once I had started a free account It then told me that I would be billed by the end of the month and automatically upgraded to the basic fee account. I deleted the account as soon as I noticed this as I still wasn't sure about if I would use this or not. 

Figure. 2. 4ormat Homepage

I'm still considering having a portfolio website, having a website dedicated to showcasing your work makes it all the more professional and also I would still upload the show reel to my YouTube channel.

Reference Images 

Figure. 1. Portfolio Box Homepage (Screen Shot) http://www.portfoliobox.net/ (Accessed 10/03/2014)

Figure. 2. 4ormat Homepage (Screen Shot) http://4ormat.com/l/portfolio?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Search:Portfolio-Head-Terms&gclid=CJyRve2riL0CFUsUwwodmTQAVA (Accessed 10/03/2014)