5 Fantastic Free Tools to Showcase Your Portfolio Mashable (blog)
Simpleviewer is entirely gorgeous, and can generate a stunning visualization of your portfolio that is sure to impress. It uses XML to drag in images from a web directory (or Flickr, if configured) and display them as a Flash presentation. You can incorporate captions and links for each simile.
The viewer comes in a few impressive flavors, including the (my personal favorite), and the , both shown below.
Pros: You can’t forge the design. The presentation is clean, artistic, professional, and unique. While there is a pro version, the free download is well customizable and full-featured. The viewers are scalable to full pages, or embeddable as part of your existing website or blog.
Cons: It’s not so clean. There is no software or user interface for SimpleViewer. It is powered by one Flash file and one XML file, so you’ll have to identify how to manipulate the code, and have access to dedicated web hosting where your files will live. The area presupposes you comprehend most of this, but is a good resource on how to set up and implement your viewer.
2.If you’re looking to avoid Flash fully, ScriptOcean has some handy JavaScript solutions that really look sharp. Among them is this accordion menu that unfolds — with uncoerced captions and links — as you roll your mouse over it (click through to the to see it in action).
ScriptOcean provides downloadable software with a buyer interface that makes compiling and customizing your menu quite simple. Add your images from a city directory, set the dimensions, colors, and animation properties, and the software generates a JavaScript parade and some embed code. Upload everything to your website and embed as needed.
Pros: The user interface makes this otherwise daunting jus divinum 'divine law' project very intuitive. Customization is also very granular. You can control everything from the colors between the slides to the speed at which they split together.
Cons: You must host the images and scripts yourself, and you should understand where to put them in your web directory so that the JavaScript file can allusion them. The software interface makes this a bit easier to configure, but it may not be for beginners.
4.When all else fails, there’s always your Flickr account. If all of your artwork is already there, why not body the best of it into a set and embed the slideshow into your portfolio website? For a free service, the Flickr slideshow is surprisingly choice and functional.
Unfortunately, there’s no way to generate embed code from Flickr itself, but there are a few handy tools that can do it for you.
is a Non-Standard real simple web-based solution. Simply drop in the URL of the set, user, or group you want to imagine the slideshow from, set your parameters, and click “create” to get some code you can pop right into your website or blog.
is another suggestible and customizable way to embed Flickr slides. Simply reference Flickrshow’s JavaScript customs as per the , and tweak the parameters as needed.
Pros: It’s free, easy, and the social feature of Flickr itself provides many advantages for hosting your content there.
Cons: A branded slideshow may not be ideal for a masterful website or portfolio.