[Tutorial] How to Make a Portfolio

[Kuroaitou]

The Portfolio board is an area reserved -specifically- for portfolio topics from card designers. A portfolio is a topic that lists a minimum of six cards from a specific author, with a defined layout of their cards (ordered in however the author wants it, although it's recommended that their cards are either organized by date created or alphabetized from A to Z).

In either case, the following rules below constitutes what can be considered an official Portfolio topic; portfolios will be moved to the section accordingly once the user has finished all of the following rules.

Card Curators may give suggestions to upkeep a portfolio in its respective thread. This may occur when the portfolio has several broken links / incorrect code / inappropriate sourcing.
Card Curators reserve the right to edit/delete a portfolio where necessary.

PORTFOLIO GUIDELINES:

In order for your Portfolio topic to qualify in the portfolio sub-section, there needs to be 4 things that your topic must do:

• Your topic must have a minimum of 6 card ideas (provide the links to those cards in question). The cards don't necessarily have to be part of a Series, but they do need to be created BY you (i.e. - you 'originally'* thought of the idea and posted the topic)

Spoiler for Regarding the '*':

If there has been a duplicate idea that has the -exact- same concept as yours, the person who came up with the idea first will be given credit

• You've read this topic here and have at least 6 cards within the Poll system (Crucible or above)
• The title of your Portfolio topic MUST follow this guideline: [Name's Portfolio - XX cards]
• The format of your Portfolio topic should be organized in the following manner as below:

[EXAMPLE]

RELIQUARY'S PORTFOLIO:

About Me

Text and Description about you. Add details of why you're a card designer and or why you're awesome. Introduction paragraphs. Nice body filled with flavor. Other misc. stuff. Blargh. Text and Description about you. Add details of why you're a card designer and or why you're awesome. Introduction paragraphs. Nice body filled with flavor. Other misc. stuff. Blargh. Text and Description about you. Add details of why you're a card designer and or why you're awesome. Introduction paragraphs. Nice body filled with flavor. Other misc. stuff. Blargh. Text and Description about you. Add details of why you're a card designer and or why you're awesome. Introduction paragraphs. Nice body filled with flavor. Other misc. stuff. Blargh. Text and Description about you. Add details of why you're a card designer and or why you're awesome. Introduction paragraphs. Nice body filled with flavor. Other misc. stuff. Blargh.

Minotaur | Minotaur



Acceleration | Overdrive



Schrödinger's Cat | Schrödinger's Cat



etc.



Once your topic has been accepted, it is up to -you- as the designer to update your portfolio as necessary whenever you post a new card idea. Other specific guidelines (organization, added aesthetic, etc.) are optional, but you must/should be able to provide the bare minimum requirements listed above for other members to view properly. You may post on this topic with a link to your Portfolio when it is ready to be moved (and when that occurs, the post here will be removed to make the sticky clean). Note that this is one of the requirements for getting access to the Idea Factory, and that your Portfolios will also be (hopefully) linked to the Card Idea Database coming much later.

Please post any other concerns or questions in here as well, and I'll add clarification as needed. Thanks.


CODE FOR ADDING CARDS TO A PORTFOLIO TOPIC:

Code: [Select]

[center][u][b][size=12pt]About Me[/size][/b][/u][/center]
Text and Description about you. Add details of why you're a card designer and or why you're awesome. Introduction paragraphs. Nice body filled with flavor. Other misc. stuff. Blargh.


Code: [Select]

[url=INSERTYOURLINKHERE]
[b][size=18pt]INSERTNAMEHERE | INSERTNAMEHERE[/size][/b]
[img]INSERTNONUPPEDIMAGEHERE[/img][img]INSERTUPGRADEDIMAGEHERE[/img]
[/url]


[Bloodshadow]

Ugh. It's gonna take me a while to dig up all my cards in the Crucible, Forge, and Armory... XD

[Kuroaitou]

Ugh. It's gonna take me a while to dig up all my cards in the Crucible, Forge, and Armory... XD

You only need to provide 6 at the beginning for the Portfolio to be accepted. ^^;; Then you can just slowly add more cards in over time and tweak the aesthetic (turn the links black or something), so that it's not a huge burden to try to grab everything at once.

[ZephyrPhantom]

Ugh. It's gonna take me a while to dig up all my cards in the Crucible, Forge, and Armory... XD

You only need to provide 6 at the beginning for the Portfolio to be accepted. ^^;; Then you can just slowly add more cards in over time and tweak the aesthetic (turn the links black or something), so that it's not a huge burden to try to grab everything at once.

Is it a good idea to include archived card ideas that never got off the ground? I'm unsure of whether to include my latest or my oldest cards first since some of my older archived ones use copyrighted art.

[TimerClock14]

Ugh. It's gonna take me a while to dig up all my cards in the Crucible, Forge, and Armory... XD

You only need to provide 6 at the beginning for the Portfolio to be accepted. ^^;; Then you can just slowly add more cards in over time and tweak the aesthetic (turn the links black or something), so that it's not a huge burden to try to grab everything at once.

Is it a good idea to include archived card ideas that never got off the ground? I'm unsure of whether to include my latest or my oldest cards first since some of my older archived ones use copyrighted art.

It's your choice, depending on what you want other people to see. If you want people to see all of your card ideas, go ahead and shove all of your card ideas in your portfolio! If you want them to see your best card ideas, take the card ideas you think you did the best on and shove those in your portfolio!

It's very flexible and very personal. Do what you want with it and don't worry about doing something wrong; just follow the format and you're good.

[EmeraldTiger]

Ideas only in crucible and above?

[Kuroaitou]

Ideas only in crucible and above?

The cards in the portfolio should be ones within the Crucible (or Crucible Archive) and above. You can also put in ones that are not in the Crucible or poll system, but it'll be a lot easier for card designers to see what cards you've designed recently (and also give them more incentive to vote for your other ideas as well if they see those ideas in a Crucible poll. ).

[moomoose]

would it be possible to move this thread here?
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,15180.msg206819.html

[Scaredgirl]

would it be possible to move this thread here?
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,15180.msg206819.html

You need to fix the format first.

[moomoose]

not worth the effort, nevermind.

[ddevans96]

...So it has to be almost exactly like this? No exceptions?

A few questions though, maybe my original plan can still be salvaged:

Could I start my portfolio in the Card Ideas section, and have it moved here later?

Am I allowed to sort by card by element, and then by rank?

[Kuroaitou]

...So it has to be almost exactly like this? No exceptions?

A few questions though, maybe my original plan can still be salvaged:

Could I start my portfolio in the Card Ideas section, and have it moved here later?

Am I allowed to sort by card by element, and then by rank?

Well, the general idea is this; for all of your card ideas, the cards have to have their images side-by-side and embedded with a hyperlink to the card topic in question (the images being 'nested' in the url tags). The name should also be above the card also; aside from those things, you can customize it any way you want in terms of the order, 'color' of the names (or whatnot), etc.

And definitely start it in the main section; just reply her or PM a Curator to move it to the Portfolio area when you're ready. ^^