Online Portfolio Tools
- Marcy Dickson
- Eileen Galvin
Did you know you have a variety of tools to publish your work online? The table below will explain where to access each tool and what it is best suited for.
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Company | Adobe | Adobe | |
Access | Free | Free for current students and faculty (requires a Creative Cloud account) | Free for anyone with a Google account. |
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Layout | Single page projects that contain content, media, and links. | Different pages that contain content and links. You can add galleries to organize your pages. | Different pages with subpages, slides, modules, and navigation. You can add content, media, links. You can share sites with other contributors' Google accounts. |
Customization | Low: Customize your page’s appearance and images. | High: You can adjust anything on a page, gallery, or entire portfolio level. | Medium: Customize the theme, navigation, and behavior of a site among Google’s presets. |
Templates | You can follow a gallery, join a school or organization, and add others' work to your collections. | Select from Adobe Portfolio templates or create yours from scratch. | Select from Google Site templates or create yours from scratch. |
Feedback | Share and promote other galleries and give feedback. | Share and give feedback on other portfolios. | Feedback is not available in Sites. |
Sync | Sync with Adobe Portfolio to upload Behance content | Syncs with other Adobe apps like Lightroom, Photoshop and Behance to import projects | Syncs with Google Drive to upload Drive files and media, and can be shared with others' Drives. |
Personal URL | May change the URL as many times as you like. | May change your Portfolio URL up to 5 times. | May set up a custom URL of an owned domain using a service like BlueHost, GoDaddy, or AWS. |
Jobs | Companies can post job profiles that users can search and apply to. | No job profiles. | No job profiles. |
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