Organising your artist's portfolio website

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 Graphic and plastic artists may find it a diffocult task selecting their work for presenting it in a digital portfolio. Here are a few simple yet effective rules to follow when presenting your work in your portfolio website :

    1. Sort your most recent work by themes. 

    2. Add a subfolder for each main theme, grouping them by subject.

    3. Display your past work by year. Choose between showing only a few samples or repeating the same hierarchy adopted for your recent work within the year's folder. Years' folders themselves are better presented in decreasing order.

    4. Add a bio page, including some info about yourself, your inspiration and work process.

    5. Don't put prices together with your work in the portfolio or a buy button. Low brow artists can keep a shop with prints and other artwork on their website, separated from your work presentation, 

    6. Include your contact details in a page accessed by the main menu or at the bottom of your profile/about page. 

"That is the usual way artists do it and, in website design, your audience will have a better user experience if the navigation is presented as expected.This is the first step to be followed when organising your artist's portfolio website." 

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