How to make your portfolio site? Emphasis on design or convenience?

Question

Design

Freelancer. I want to make a portfolio site (is it really worth it at all?). I made a light one-pager, but I can also do something cool, with animations, 3d models and anything else, but I'm afraid that while the visitor analyzes all this in his head, he will spend a lot of time to reach the required block. Focus on simplicity or show off your skill with your website?

Answer 1

It was the twelfth year of freelancing, there was still no website, oh - this is the question of necessity :)
But doing, of course, is better than not doing it, if there is time.
How to do it depends on the target audience, if the target audience is private clients and small-town studios, then alas, the majority chooses solely with their eyes (and partly with sensations of speed), so if you can cram a whistle so that it doesn’t slow down, then it’s definitely necessary, it’s rarely in the code there someone is watching, the idea of ​​your qualifications is formed on the basis of "wow-effects", since in the presentation of this target audience, animation is an indicator of skill and, in general, the most difficult thing on the web.
If the target audience is more serious, then it needs to be combined.
Aiming at a serious target audience with a "simple" site makes sense only if you do something publicly and do it well (speak at conferences, have a promoted channel on the tube, and so on) - in this case, you can afford to make a page , which will only have your photo and contacts next to it.

Answer 2

It can be combined.

Answer 3

Looking for what purposes.
If it's for sending out to headhunters, it's better to be as simple as possible with an emphasis on projects.
If it's for yourself, you can do whatever you want.
If for clients - so it is not necessary. Portfolios on dribble/behance and exchanges work much better because they are in the same context with client flows.

Answer 4

Everything in moderation and quality:
1. Design,
2. UI / UX,
3. Correct HTML5 markup,
4. Google Speed ​​insights 90-100 (this page has 65-69).
5. Something that works "live" to showcase your accomplishments.
All this should be in the same style and logic of providing information: "monolith".
(and not just a set of completed items with chaotic fonts, "fitting by eye", a pile of everything in a row that I copied and pasted from the Internet ...)