9 ways to show your work without a portfolio site

Sometimes you just don’t have the time to focus on yourself. More importantly, you don’t have the time to create your portfolio Website, which is just about everything these days. Aside from that, whether you have your awesome site up or not, its great to be on as many of these sites as you can. The more you network and share your work, the more opportunities will come your way. I don’t necessarily recommend you try to be on all of these sites, but pick a few that work well for you and focus on networking within that community.

Behance Network

This online community of designers, artists and creatives offers quite a bit of customization to colors and some layout options for portfolio display. Behance has a very healthy supply of great work by great creatives and supplies a very long list of selective fields to tag yourself under. Join and create Circles to narrow down your network and find other creatives to collaborate with. And, of course, you can always appreciate work that strikes you as awesome.

Flickr

Flickr is a great resource to find imagery as well as share it with others. I would gear this Website more towards photography and design resources, however, you can use Flickr as a way to share portfolio work as well. Another good use for this Website is to share inspirational imagery or just keep a quick and handy gallery of your inspirations for use at any time.

Vimeo

Vimeo is a little the opposite of Flickr. Here keep a selection of your short films, motion graphics or flash animations.

Carbonmade

Carbonmade is easy to use, though I would not consider its overall display of work nor organization to be quite as good as that of Behance. When you start getting into portfolio’s its browsing UI degrades slightly. Nonetheless, it still ranks as a good place to show your work and get more eyes on it.

Coroflot

Corflot creates a network that is easier to navigate than Carbonmade and more user friendly. It has a lot of similarities to Behance in terms of appreciating work, categorizing in sets or projects and displaying information about the artists. With over 164,000 portfolios, give it a shot!

Design:Related

Honestly, this is not my favorite. I wouldn’t consider this one to be the most UI friendly site in this list and its overall display of your work doesn’t quite compare to that of Coroflot or Behance. Again, probably wouldn’t hurt to try it out though.

Deviant Art

Ah, Deviant Art! You are likely to find just as much work you could care less about as you are to find some very amazing work. It is definitely worth it to browse the site every once and awhile to see some pretty great stuff from almost any artistic field. All in all, its probably not the most professional option.

Shown’D

This site incorporates some sexy jQuery into its portfolio viewing, however, really leaves you stranded once into a portfolio. The only way out is a link back to the home page. This site would benefit from some better UI throughout but remains an interesting spot to show your stuff.

Wordpress

As odd as it may seem, Wordpress is a decent option for displaying your work. With as many of the available themes out there, the ability to quickly put together a blog/portfolio is incredible. Obviously I still suggest taking the time to design and build your very own custom theme, but if you’re someone who doesn’t mind pre-made templates you can be up and running in no time.