Showing off your design work.

Web designers aiming for high end contacts and freelance work need something really important: visibility. Not any kind of visibility but some core HTML/CSS/Design reviews of their work to be able to get the possible clients to come to their sites. This is usually done through showcase websites. These websites are showrooms where the best designs and code are shown. They are very popular all over the Internet and not only do they drive traffic and prospects to the web designer’s site but they also help in SEO. These sites are usually well quoted in Google’s index and have much authority in terms of content and PR. They, thus shed some link juice to the designer.

How to do this?

Now, submitting your work to these sites is quite a hefty load of work but it does bring back something. My former portfolio got into a dozen plus showcases but I did have to manually submit the whole thing to more that 30 of them. I would have appreciated the existence of this new tool at the time: MeeCSS. So what does this do? MeeCSS automatically submits your site/portfolio to more than a hundred showcase galleries. It also gives you info on each gallery’s page rank to be sure you get the best link juice to your site.

What type of site?

Based on my personal experience, the sites that usually get accepted in such galleries are more visual ones than really well coded ones. On some of them, the code doesn’t matter while on others, the code quality is a major element. Don’t forget that viewers can also vote for your site, giving you authority or taking it away, and some of them are really demanding in terms of quality work. Anyway, visually astounding work usually gets the best result. You also have niche sites that might be really interesting such as One Page Love or We Love WordPress. These might just give you the visibility needed if you’re specialising in niche site development.

So why not jump in and give your work a boost in terms of prospects and traffic?

Category: Web Design