In our previous post we discussed about tips to making efficient and professional looking single page portfolio sites. Just to help you put those ideas into practice, this article will bring some excellent examples of single-page websites which will surely inspire you! They are extremely relevant because of the original, unusual or creative means they’ve used in the site design and functionality. You can pick up new ideas from each of these links and, why not, apply them to your own portfolio or use them as a starting point for creating your own original designs! It would be a good idea to analyze the way all these sites manage to obtain balance between the background and the work displayed, the very professional way of structuring information and the very fluid navigation displayed there.
They prove a point about efficiency, outstanding creativity and carefully studied graphics. In terms of the technique preferred for this type of sites, using the HTML (with CSS and Javascript) would be the most suitable, as it can easily be adapted to the desired functionality of such a site and, most of all, is easily indexed by Google. However, one must admit that the most spectacular results are usually obtained with Flash and, as in most of the cases, the designer also intends to sweep you off your feet, this can be a preferable variant. Especially as such a spectacular site can get a lot of publicity coming from the experts in the field (magazines, web design prizes, blogs etc.). Of course, a middle way is also possible: a HTML site with extremely ingenious use of Javascripts (Moo Tools, ProScroll, jScrollPane, LightBox and so on) can kill two birds with one stone – and in this case, the project would be all the more challenging for you!
Actually it’s for you to decide which technique suits you best. All these examples are meant to prove that where there’s a will, there’s always a way in terms of web design!
