Comments on: 7 Portfolio Sites That Make It Easy To Strut Your Stuff

By: monica

monica — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:54:32 +0000

Hey Steph – I was feeling the same frustration, that’s why we built it! Please feel free to give it a try. I’d love to hear your thoughts on it. =)

By: Steph Auteri

Steph Auteri — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:05:15 +0000

Thanks for the tip Monica! I was actually feeling frustrated that so many of the portfolio sites I knew about were geared toward visual arts, rather than the written word.

By: monica

monica — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:26:12 +0000

Hi Steph, I just found your website through Susan's blog. I notice the portfolios are geared towards visual artists rather than writers and thought you might be interested to know about Writer's Residence (http://writersresidence.com), a portfolio service with a feature set designed specifically for writers. I co-run the website and use it for my writing portfolio (http://monicashaw.com). Hope you don't mind the plug, but seeing as you're a writer yourself I thought you might like to know about it! Thanks!

By: Steph Auteri

Steph Auteri — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:50:22 +0000

@Susan: I hadn’t even realized that VistaPrint offered that particular service! My god they’re a great resource for freelancers.

@Tim: Post us a link to your website! I always love seeing how everyone else does it.

By: tim

tim — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:46:15 +0000

have used Behance.net – price is right (free), and I’m amazed by how much traffic my work gets.
have also done my own portfolio on my website – but static to the point of being sad…

By: Susan Johnston

Susan Johnston — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:55:08 +0000

My website/portfolio is hosted by VistaPrint and I’ve been pretty happy with the service so I prepaid $200 for a full year of web hosting. They also have a very user-friendly webtool that I can use to update the site whenever I want without doing any coding. Admittedly, it’s not the fanciest or most web 2.0 savvy site, but it achieves of my goal of having a place to host my clips and establish an online presence. Some writers use Media Bistro’s freelance marketplace for the same purpose, but you can do a lot more customization by having your own site.