I have been applying for entry-level graphic design jobs from Philadelphia craigslist for two months and haven't received even the slightest nibble of interest. What am I doing wrong? [more inside]
posted on Jul 21, 2008 - 29 answers

How should we handle liquidating assets in an estate in the USA right now? Assets consist primarily of a stock portfolio and a house. [more inside]
posted on Jun 21, 2008 - 17 answers

Where can I get an 11x17 portfolio in portrait orientation? [more inside]
posted on Jun 9, 2008 - 7 answers

I'm very interested in becoming an editor, please help...yes, I've read the previous posts. [more inside]
posted on May 16, 2008 - 33 answers

Help me land my first web dev contract! [more inside]
posted on Mar 31, 2008 - 5 answers

I'm looking for a dynamic, multimedia online portfolio system. Does such a thing exist? Kind of like a flickr model, but for different media types and personal domains. (details inside) [more inside]
posted on Mar 24, 2008 - 4 answers

How can I put together an amazing portfolio for potential employers, as an advertising student? (I have the content, but need to decide what to put in the portfolio...and more importantly decide what to house my portfolio in!) [more inside]
posted on Mar 11, 2008 - 7 answers

InterviewFilter: Will I be automatically trumped by someone with a portfolio full of flash? [more inside]
posted on Mar 9, 2008 - 5 answers

How can I create a table of contents for a professional portfolio that contains a collection of material gathered from various sources? [more inside]
posted on Feb 27, 2008 - 1 answers

Interviewing with a technical writing / communication portfolio. What resources and tips for those who have gone through it or hired from it. [more inside]
posted on Feb 27, 2008 - 4 answers

Printer paper - I'm printing my portfolio for application to art college. Hoping to DIY so I'm looking for high quality, A3, dual-sided, matte paper for use with a Canon Pixma IX 4000 printer. I think. [more inside]
posted on Jan 28, 2008 - 6 answers

i'm a freelance writer and want to create a simple website with an online portfolio for my work. [more inside]
posted on Jan 18, 2008 - 9 answers

I have been asked to put together a portfolio for a couple of jobs on the creative side of the advertising world. I am very quick with new ideas for marketing and advertising, but I have never put an ad together. Help me put a portfolio together! [more inside]
posted on Dec 29, 2007 - 9 answers

I'm looking for an easy way for an older, non-technical artist to post a portfolio of some of her work online. A free solution would be fabulous but it doesn't have to be free as she would likely want to register a domain name to forward anyway. [more inside]
posted on Dec 24, 2007 - 12 answers

I'm looking for a great stock and mutual fund portfolio manager. It has to be web-delivered (I travel a lot) and free is always better. I have a very long wishlist of features I know I want and I'm open to the idea that there is some killer feature I don't know about that I also want. Of course, theres... [more inside]
posted on Nov 30, 2007 - 4 answers

How to preload images dynamically in flash so that the image navigation doubles as the load bar. Like http://big.dk/projects/lim/lim.html [more inside]
posted on Nov 14, 2007 - 2 answers

Trying to redo my design portfolio site. I've been told I need it to be in Flash. I'm great with other programs but not Flash, so I'm teaching myself. I SUCK. I don't know what I'm doing!!! So I need 1) technical help* and 2) feedback on the design I have so far. 'Cuz this is all really new to me and I want it to be well-received. Do you have a portfolio site? What works for you? *Calling all Flash wizards in the Bay area! Wanna make a few bucks & help me? [more inside]
posted on Nov 2, 2007 - 37 answers

How do you apply for (design) positions if all the work you've done is proprietary information? [more inside]
posted on Aug 29, 2007 - 4 answers

What's the best online tool for tracking a fantasy stock portfolio? [more inside]
posted on Jul 16, 2007 - 3 answers

ResumeFilter: Objective or No Objective? List the unrelated work history or leave it out? Does doing work for your college count as "work history" if they paid you but it also counted as a class?! Please help me with my resume! [more inside]
posted on Apr 2, 2007 - 10 answers

Can you recommend a relatively easy to use, customizable web portfolio template that I can easily update and reorganize to show my illustration work? [more inside]
posted on Mar 13, 2007 - 5 answers

Suggestions for nailing an internship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art please and best suggestions for passing out a photographer's portfolio in New York. [more inside]
posted on Mar 12, 2007 - 8 answers

Does anyone know of a good real-time online stocks/shares portfolio tool I can use to practise becoming a Warren Buffet style gazillionaire? I am poor and wish to become rich beyond my wildest dreams...virtually. Thanks in advance.
posted on Mar 9, 2007 - 7 answers

Hey, creative sorts: I could use a little help with a theatrical directing portfolio for an MFA interview. [more inside]
posted on Feb 16, 2007 - 8 answers

How do I build a technical writing portfolio when all of the docs I work on at my current company are proprietary information? [more inside]
posted on Feb 9, 2007 - 11 answers

PortfolioWebsiteFilter: I need some examples of aesthetically pleasing websites! [more inside]
posted on Jan 16, 2007 - 13 answers

Are artist portfolio promotion web sites like childrensillustrators.com or portfolios.com worth getting involved with? [more inside]
posted on Dec 3, 2006 - 3 answers

JobSearchFilter: Let's say you are making a project portfolio and the contents of your most impressive, innovative work of the last two years is "confidential" and not meant for public, much less competitor consumption. What's the most ethical and effective way to show potential future employers what it is that you can do? [more inside]
posted on Nov 14, 2006 - 6 answers

I'm after content ideas for building a design portfolio. [more inside]
posted on Nov 14, 2006 - 7 answers

How best to format photography portfolio CD for gallery submissions? [more inside]
posted on Sep 24, 2006 - 4 answers

UKSharesFilter: Some of my relatives have had a small selection of the shares in an inherited portfolio disappear over time from their online tracker, so my question is what has happened to the following stocks: CHB.L; GAA.L; MFBUEUGI.L and MFBUTRU.L, and should they have received any notification, documents or even cheques, (and what can be done about finding out more)? (I should clarify that they still have the certificates and haven't sold, traded or otherwise physically disposed of them, it's the listing themselves that now come up as 'No Such Symbol' on the internet listing of the portfolio).
posted on Aug 7, 2006 - 5 answers

How is this web technique done and do you know of other examples of it? Is [more inside]
posted on Aug 2, 2006 - 19 answers

I need to apply custom type to Davey Board (bookbinding board), is screen printing my only option? [more inside]
posted on Apr 11, 2006 - 9 answers

What material should I use for a cover for a portfolio made with chicago-style screwposts? [more inside]
posted on Mar 15, 2006 - 8 answers

Using a wiki (media wiki) to display a portfolio...ideas, best practices, plug-ins, doodads, or hoohas? [more inside]
posted on Feb 24, 2006 - 0 answers

Online portfolios - what are the good, creative ones out there? [more inside]
posted on Feb 4, 2006 - 4 answers

Fellow graphic designers: I need help thinning out my collection of samples and portfolio materials. What should I keep? please hope. [more inside]
posted on Jan 18, 2006 - 8 answers

i need a portfolio for an upcoming interview. help me find one that is stylish and inexpensive [more inside]
posted on Dec 5, 2005 - 5 answers

Methods of Documentation: Getty My Work Onto Slide Film Next weekend I am participating in an art show, my first in which work will be for sale, and because for one thing, I hung a piece in the silent auction, I have reason to believe I will sell at least one thing. (I have sold work before on commission, but this is still pretty exciting.) I would like to have, in the future, in my portfolio, slides of any sold work. I do not have a tremendous budget but I'd rather spend a bit of cash than not have documentation of early sold work. What method should I use to get my paintings and soforth onto slides? (See extended explanation). Thanks much. I've got until the weekend to figure this out. /tarin [more inside]
posted on Oct 18, 2005 - 16 answers

I've got a marathon job interview coming up, and I'm looking for advice on: a professional purse or briefcase I can use; how to stay energized, alert and upbeat for two consecutive days; cultural things I should be aware of in northeast Florida. [more inside]
posted on Jul 20, 2005 - 15 answers

Photograph and portfolio questions ... [more inside]
posted on Apr 18, 2005 - 5 answers

I just quit my job at BC Hansard, where part of my job duties included writing technical documentation. One of my major projects was a word processing manual for our editors (most of whom are not technically savvy), explaining the various in-house Word macros, general computer use and so forth. But Hansard refuses to give me a portfolio copy of my work; not because of any hard feelings, but because they just don't do this. [more inside]
posted on Feb 24, 2005 - 8 answers

I've been interested in photography since I was a kid, starting to take it more seriously as a hobby in 2000, and have taking it very seriously since last year, especially photojournalism. I had some experiences photographing last year that made start to wonder if this wasn't something I was good enough at to do and now I'd really like to start thinking about freelancing as a photojournalist as a sideline to my day job. I've built up a decent amount of good equipment that would allow me to make a start. I'm not sure how to go about it, short of writing off to publishers with a portfolio and a letter, which has come to nothing so far.

Have any photographers - especially photojournalists out there got any advice? Thanks in advance!
posted on Jan 6, 2005 - 17 answers

Portfolio Confidentiality

I'm applying for a job with an industrial design firm which requires a portfolio. Some of my best work is part of a project which is in the process of being patented (but has not been filed for yet), so I'm unsure how to handle it. It seems excessive and limiting (and maybe rude?) to ask for an NDA from a potential employer, but I don't feel completely comfortable sending this information out. Anyone have any suggestions or experience in this area?
posted on Nov 21, 2004 - 9 answers

Looking for a flash based portfolio that I saw a year or so ago. Full browser window sort of thing, white background I seem to recall. All of the projects were on small little horizontal strips, scattered around the window. Each strip had a project picture on the left and whitespace or maybe a spot of text, such as a title on the right. Clicking on a strip would cause it to visually float up (I seem to recall that there was a nice 3d effect and generated shadow) and expand to give more project detail. Does this ring a bell for anyone? Simple and elegant in it's execution.
posted on Sep 24, 2004 - 0 answers

I'm working with a new 6th - 12th grade school focusing on Arts & Technology integrated into the cirriculum. We're looking for software that will allow us to accomplish varying tasks - e-mail for students/teachers/parents, digital portfolio publishing for students, shared discussion space for class comments, teacher/course specfic pages etc. Each student will have their own portable computer as well.

What I'm looking for is pratical thoughts/examples of how to provide this functionality. I've seen some schools using Manila, dotlrn also seems very promising but perhaps a bit too "big" for us to take on.

Is the weblog paradigm itself a good one to be pursuing to pull this off? Or are we just not ready to go there without significant effort? If you were attempting to create this techno environment for a school (many of whose students and teachers are unfamilar with technology) how would you pull it off?
posted on Jan 18, 2004 - 10 answers

A K-12 school I am involved in wants to be able to publish digital portfolios of student work on the web. As to additional functionality (i.e. Commenting on work, Blogging) I'm open to proposals. Since the budget doesn't allow us to pay someone to hack apache and write code we're looking for an out of the box solution. I believe that Userland's Manila would let me do this at least in part - are there any other solutions I can be looking at?
posted on Dec 9, 2003 - 5 answers