How to get your design portfolio online, Part 1

This series will tackle the different ways that you can put your porfolio of design projects online.

One way is through arkispecs.com. This site makes it easy for Filipino architects without any technical knowledge of building a website to post information about themselves and upload pictures of their projects.I think it's also a free service. Once you register and put in the information they ask for, you will then be given a simple URL, www.yourname.arkispecs.com. This will lead to your own personal page, with links to sub-pages outlining your contact information, qualifications, affiliations, services, and projects. It also has a statistics page where you can check how many people have visited your page.

The disadvantage of this is you can't customize the page. It follows a set format. You can't personalize it or employ fancy effects such as flash animation. But one advantage of getting an arkispecs site is that a link to your page will be posted on the "cyber community" page. So visitors to arkispecs will be able to see a link to your site.
For a sample, you can visit webmaster Jericho Adriano's page.

I haven't actually tried this myself. If you have, feel free to give some feedback :)

Next up:
Using Online Photo Albums
Creating Your Own Website