Portfolios Online: Digital and Graphic Designer's Websites [Hardcover]

Kathleen Ziegler (Editor), Nick Greco (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 2001

Each chapter focuses on the essential elements that create a successful online portfolio, such as the Entrance, Thumbnails, Portfolio, Motion Graphics, Resume and the Website Layout. Elaborate entrance constructions are showcased while many thumbnail configurations are previewed. Stunning examples featuring the portfolio work are revealed. The versatility and interaction of motion graphics with the viewer is presented. Included is the navigational layout matrix of each featured website. Portfolios Online not only takes you on a personal journey to view the most extraordinary showcase of digital work but also highlights the best features on each cyberportfolio website. Follow the designers' successful paths to professional portfolios on the web. All featured digital designers were selected for their promotional prowess and their amazing website. This inspirational book will jumpstart your online marketing skills to showcase your own portfolios on the web.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Kathleen Ziegler and Nick Greco are the principals of Dimensional Illustrators, Inc. which they founded to promote three-dimensional illustration in advertising and publishing. They work in Southampton, Pennsylvania and give lectures throughout the United States. They have also co-authored several book including More Paper Sculpture, Digital Focus and The Designer's Guide to Webtype.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 159 pages
• Publisher: HBI; 1st Edition in this form edition (September 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 006620934X
• ISBN-13: 978-0066209340
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,897,804 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Expected a "Reference Guide", Got a Picture-Book., December 20, 2001

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Michael A Miller (Erie, PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Portfolios Online: Digital and Graphic Designer's Websites (Hardcover)

I don't know where to begin except to ask what the jacket description has to do with the book?

I was excited about reading this "must-have reference guide" that "focuses on the essential elements that create a successful online portfolio." I expected to see samples of some of the best award-wining online portfolios along with discussions of the salient features that make them so successful and the means by which they were achieved.

I hoped for some descriptions or tips on how winning portfolio designers select and organize content, what types of interfaces and technologies they choose to present their work, how they translate that into success in their fields of work,...

What I got was a (bad) coffee-table book full of screen-shots of web portfolios with little snippets of hyperbole in accompanying blurb-boxes on every other page for the first 2/3 of the book. I never saw such a content-free "reference guide" in my life. Between pages 112 and 154 there is NO TEXT other than 2-word captions to thumbnail-sized website screenshots which are, frankly, a waste of the high-quality glossy stock on which they are printed. They are too small to make out any of the supposed "ooh and ahh" details. Worst of all, what little text there was to read was poorly written - rife with grammatical errors.

This book was an incredible disappointment, very ill-conceived, and falsely advertised. Would someone like to buy my copy?

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bad purchase, November 16, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Portfolios Online: Digital and Graphic Designer's Websites (Hardcover)

This book has no content. You can barely read a bit about the websites featured there, and most of them are outdated. Although the book is published in 2001, websites there seem to be old.

I didn't agree with the choices of the websites this book features either. It seems like it has been put together by someone who really doesn't spend that much time on the Internet.

1.0 out of 5 stars too dated, September 17, 2010

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c. diane gibbs - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Portfolios Online: Digital and Graphic Designer's Websites (Hardcover)

this book is very dated and i would not recommend anyone buying it. the design was 1990's looking