Best way to make a portfolio website

[.Simon.]

Im bored lately, so i decided to make a portfolio site for me to use once i begin my art course next year.

Has anyone had any experience making one and if so, what kind of code would be best to make an easy to use gallery? And one that looks attractive.

[teej]

www.myspace.com

:P

[.Simon.]

Ych don't even say that ;P I hate myspace, even though i have one.

[teej]

Originally posted by .Simon.
Ych don't even say that ;P I hate myspace, even though i have one.

yeah but no matter how much you hate it it is probably the best place to get attention to yourself because of the ridiculous amount of people that visit it daily.

[.Simon.]

Ide rather make the portfolio part of my work though, and design it and everything. I can use myspace yeah, but for the actual portfolio a proper site ;P

[atholon]

learn CSS
and find a good CMS

[.Simon.]

Yeah i am ;P comes in very handy

[atholon]

Still can't do anything.

Stupid height rules.

[.Simon.]

Huh?


I haven't used it much, ive only had blank pages with h1, h2, h3 etc just to test out controlliing different elements.

[atholon]

You can't control the height of elements.. like if you want to make a div 100% height it wonn't let you.

[.Simon.]

That sucks. Can't say ive ever used div tags much. Although... i haven't used much html. I usually make my templates in photoshop, and just edit the tables.

[SilentTrigger]

Originally posted by atholon
You can't control the height of elements.. like if you want to make a div 100% height it wonn't let you.

Height doesn't work in the same way as width, height 100% is the hight that is needed to fit the content.

[xaarniex]

oh .simon. youre into art never thought you where into art

[atholon]

Game's over xaarniex.

I know ST....it just is annoying because you have to force it to be a certain height by constraining the dimensions or forcing it with the content.

[SilentTrigger]

Defenetly agree with that

[atholon]

Can't wait for CSS3

[EDGE]

If I were you, I'd start learning CSS like atholon said. I would rather create my own website completely than find a CMS, but thats just me.

[atholon]

Coding a website is a lot of work

Maybe not a simple portfolio site...but it can get complex really fast.

[EDGE]

Originally posted by atholon
Coding a website is a lot of work

Maybe not a simple portfolio site...but it can get complex really fast.

True, but when you get into teaching yourself CSS or any coding language, it gets to be really fun and something that will make time go by fast

[Scott]

Yeah the css height sucks.. but it is possible to make it 100% the page length.

body {
height:100%;
}

Then you can put your container div to 100% height and it will fill the length of the page. I've done this before. I believe this is how I acomplished that...