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I also put together a Substack to serve as a website/portfolio. I need to decide if I want to take the blog route and add posts.
https://tammyszczepanik.substack.com/
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Tammy Szczepanik | Substack
Freelance Writer: Content Writing, Blog Writing, and Ghostwriting. Click to read Tammy Szczepanik, a Substack publication. Launched 4 months ago.
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What can you add to your portfolio to make it a little more personal?
I love to write, and I've always kept a journal (often several on the go at once). I thought it'd be nice to add a work journal to my website so that my clients and colleagues can explore my processes and the messy inner-workings of my brain.
Have a look at: https://www.onyourtiptoes.com/journal and have a click through my highlights below.
It only took a couple of hours to build in Figma and Framer, but now the real challenge is keeping the entries going!
In spirit of building in public being more popular than ever, I'd love to see what you're making at the moment too. Let me know in the comments and we can share notes 💌
This is so cool @Cara Ellis. What is everyone else making?
For Sienna Rhodes, I designed the homepage around one idea: the portfolio should come first.
Photography clients usually want to know one thing before they read about your process, your packages, or even who you are: Do I connect with your work?
So instead of opening with a traditional introduction, the homepage leads directly into the portfolio and lets the imagery make the first impression. The supporting copy and details come later, once the work has already created that initial connection.
I’m curious where other designers and photographers land on this. Do you prefer a portfolio-first homepage, or do you think the photographer’s story should come first?
Portfolio first, every time for photography. Nobody hires off a process paragraph, they hire because one image stopped them scrolling. The story matters, but it lands harder after the work has already made the case. That start here slider does the pitch by itself.
