Website ideas

>>253579
>Websites for your portfolio
Wait, what? Just make a portfolio website?

It will show them how you code and design?

Want more designs? Them make more layouts and just upload pictures.

>>253582
>Just make a portfolio website?

I'm a web designer only so my portfolio content are websites.
It makes no sense to start on my portfolio if i don't have content.

So i need to make random websites to include later on my portfolio website.

>>253579
http://www.siteinspire.com/

>>253579
what sort of client do you want? ecommerce, blogs, cutesy stuff, photo-feature stuff, online magazine or editorial, etc. good starting point, finding niches and clients who refer each other or ask others who did their website because it matches their purposes and aesthetics is a great source of business

>>253587
Thanks.

>>253590
I'm just making sites to show my skills.
I only do the layout design and leave the rest for the developer so i'm not focusing on any specific job.

Here are some ideas, if you want them.

>Make a single-page website for a pizzeria. It has recently opened and is trying to get some clients from its local town. Must be very light and simple, and have a contact section at the bottom, before the footer. Whatever name you want, but the predominant colors must be green, white and red.

>Create a website for a developer named John Smith. It must have a very appealing landing page, a biography section listing also his skills, a pricing page and a contact page. John creates apps and games, and the logo must be a game sprite.

>Create a page for a photographer. It must have a sidebar with a few items, but the content section must be at least 80% of the width. Dark colors, a big gallery of his pictures and a minimalist style.

>>253642
It makes no sense to constrict myself to rules on my personal portfolio.
I'm suppose to have the freedom to do anything.

>>253579
Use this opportunity to try to make a viral site/profitable site. A fake business even (dollar shave club, ship enemy glitter type shit) that you can sell as a concept. A functional + interactive site that shows you have javascript knowledge is great for a portfolio.

No point wasting the effort on making a hypothetical site, especially when employers will admire the fact that you're making something functional/creative past a pretty layout.

>>253579
smart porn site

>>253579
drug traffic site

>>253661
Not the guy with the ideas here but i get his point.

Your portfolio should reflect your personality and showcase your aptitudes.
But all that should be done with your potential future clients as the targeted audience.
They should be able to relate with what you do and feel safe that you're not a full of himself hipster prick that will impose his taste and be hard to deal with.

Pizza is a well known Italian dish. It may not level up to your artsy standards but most pizzerias want to emphasize that feel in their visual identity in order to give the client a sense of authenticity and quality.

Developer is a boring job with supposedly boring people, you want to make that dude stand and pop out in the first 5 seconds when your brain is making it's first judgment call. Then comes his credentials, prices and fucking contact.

First thing you're looking when chosing a Photographer is his fucking pictures. And that should be your focus. Statistically most of them will be in daylight so the dark background makes sense.

THIS DUDE LITERALLY DID 99% of the fucking job for you, and he did a fucking bloody good one.

you should seriously consider doing something else with your fucking miserable life if you could not realize this.
It's not just about you and your fucking color palette and fancy fonts and how fucking feng shui your shit looks.

Fuck back off to school.

>>253741
I agree with this anon, while a portfolio should contain some neat things that can show off your skill, you really need to show people what you can do for THEM. People won't pay you for shit you want to do, they will pay you for the shit they want.

>>253741
>you should seriously consider doing something else with your fucking miserable life if you could not realize this.
>It's not just about you and your fucking color palette and fancy fonts and how fucking feng shui your shit looks.

This. Fuck you OP, learn some shit before attempting to start freelancing.

>>253741
>Pizza is a well known Italian dish. It may not level up to your artsy standards

I actually don't mind making a site for a pizzeria, but i don't want any constraints in a site that is personal and not commercial.

>>253754
I agree, i'll deal with that once i get the job, until then i'm suppose to impress the studio owner not the client and normally studio owners they like "neat things"

>>253756
I'm not looking to freelance, so the portfolio will only be seen by design studios.

>>253760
>I actually don't mind making a site for a pizzeria, but i don't want any constraints in a site that is personal and not commercial.

it is commercial you fucking inbred, you're not planning to do gd for free, are you?

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>I'm not looking to freelance, so the portfolio will only be seen by design studios.
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Seems that i wrote that whole block of text for nothing.

You're fucking hopeless and delusional and/or just a /v/irgin living the great free of actual bills to pay life.

In any case you should now SERIOUSLY consider doing something else with your life.

And i know that i'm not supposed to say those things to someone who has a dream and all that retarded disney shit but hear me out; I'm really trying to help you not end up surviving off of welfare at the expense of the actually sane working class.
You do not understand that even the "studio owners that will pay your fucking salary and that like neat things" do that because of passion.. and because they fucking make a buck or two with it.

I would have had some more advises for you but considering the attitude you have towards people that actually try to help your self-sodomized miserable ass, i will more than enjoy to keep them for myself.

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>>253790
>In any case you should now SERIOUSLY consider doing something else with your life.

This coming from someone that i never have seen a portfolio from... disregarded.

>do that because of passion.. and because they fucking make a buck or two with it.

I'm going to give you an example of a site from a podiatry that is very well made and maybe you wouldn't think that they wanted something "neat" in that field.
Maybe you have low expectations from clients and think they all don't care what they get in the end.

http://integratedpodiatry.com.au/

>>253797
>a portfolio on an anonymous imageboard.
and the shit you just posted is lacking originality and anything but "neat".

O.P, just give up and kill yourself.

OP, I get that you want to show people what you do best, but your employers/clients won't give a fuck about what YOU want. You have to try new things. They will ask you what I told you here >>253642, and if you want to get some money, you can't just tell them "nah, I don't feel like doing this".

In the worst case scenario, by doing this you will at least learn some new stuff.

>>253642
NOT OP
Actually, I might try some of these out since I'm trying to learn proper web development. Let's say I do a good job and want to put it up on behance, do I mention it's for a fictional company/personal work or just keep it quiet?

As for a personal portfolio site, I understand content is king but is it alright to add personality like these?
http://www.legworkstudio.com/
http://www.panic.lv/en/

You having 100% creativity is not interesting to a client. Congrats, you made something look good with no restrictions!!!! That's fucking easy. Anyone with basic as fuck html and css can do that.

This board is trying to tell you that clients will be interested in SITES THAT HAVE RESTRICTIONS still looking good and working well. It's much harder, and it's what they're buying. They don't give a rat's ass how tasteful your horizontal nav bar is, they need a cascading menu system for an incredibly dense catalog. Or they're a dentist and want a beautiful site that will appeal to the middle-aged parents in their suburb, or maybe the yuppies in their corner of downtown. If you can't do that because that's too many buttons or not enough inspiration to fit YOUR aesthetic, you're not going to make any money at all freelancing. May as well just make wordpress themes.

>>253861
>YOUR aesthetic

So you think that the people designing these websites don't have jobs?

http://www.siteinspire.com/

>>253661
>>253760
>>253797
(i think this is all op)

Keep thinking like that and you'll make nothing. Try to catch all the dollars and you get none. Creativity is subtraction and the less you have to work with, the more you can make if you really work on it. making whatever you want is all well and good and if you have an opus to write then by all means, scribe away.

But when you get a job, it will be NOTHING but restriction. until you can afford to be yourself, you gotta pay to work for everyone else.

now go make the pizza website, its a cool idea.

oh and the foot website, it was probably made by someone who is really good at their job, loves graphic design and was on a team of people who made a name for themselves by doing grunt work, till the people who needed something new (the foot doctors) took a chance and it worked beautifully, when youre in that situation, you can judge and make rad shit.

(this is kind of cathartic because im in a design slump myself, but i give better advice than take apparently.)

>>253888
>But when you get a job, it will be NOTHING but restriction. until you can afford to be yourself, you gotta pay to work for everyone else.

You're probably right, i'm gonna hate making sites with a lot of restrictions, but i don't really think i need to restrict myself on the portfolio.
I think the employer will understand that i can follow rules.

>now go make the pizza website, its a cool idea.

Maybe i will actually make a pizzeria site just to prove that i can but without restrictions.

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>>253797
pic related, me after looking at this site

>>253579
From your posts in this thread I'd guess you're just baiting but on the off chance you're not I'll reply.

If you don't have any experience in the web design field first you should make a personal portfolio website. Use a framework like bootstrap or foundation and add as many features as you can while keeping the load time <3s.

Then reach out to any family members with creative skills. For me it was my sister (make-up artist) my brother(photographer) and my parents restaurant. Even if they don't use the website they probably won't mind you making one just for your portfolio.

Add these websites to your portfolio and then look for small business in your local area. Print off 100 or so business cards and just hand 'em out. Wait for a call or a text from someone who wants an "online presence" and then make them website.

It's pretty easy to become a freelance web designer desu you just need to take it step by step and not sit in your room making websites no one will ever see.

>>255718
This was actually very helpful. Thank you anon.

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Random nooby anon here. How much coding skill does someone need before they start showing off their website? I know HTML and CSS, but I don't know jack about PHP and how that works. Is it considered "nooby" to not know the basics of front end, or am I just selling my designing skills?

I can make a layout, but when it comes to PHP and server communication... I am clueless. Sorry, I just want to know what I should be studying before I work on my portfolio.

>>256256
It's never too early to start, my first job I just made an incredibly basic site using just html and css.

It only paid like €300 which was way more than what it was worth for like 2 hours work but most people don't know anything about how to make a website and just using html and css you can make a better looking and faster loading website than 50% of the websites out there.

>>256256
You can start working only with HTML and CSS, but the more languages you know, the better. You should definitely learn jQuery next, It's not hard at all and you don't even need to have an advanced knowledge.