Behance, the network for creative professionals, has added a new tool to the creative’s arsenal.
ProSite is a simple as drag-and-drop way to create truly stunning online portfolios. Projects in these portfolios will be linked to other sites in the Behance network, such as LinkedIn, AIGA and AdWeek.
To get started, a designer (or illustrator, or director, or tattoo artist, etc.) uploads traditional or multimedia projects to Behance. Once the Behance projects have been created, you can choose a layout from the ProSites library — and layouts are customizable, so no two sites need look alike.
Once your projects and layouts are set up, just drag and drop your projects into your new portfolio site as you want them to appear. You can then adjust the sizes of the project thumbnails, switch up the margins, pick your own colors and (best of all, in our opinion), select from a roster of gorgeous web-friendly fonts for your site.
You can add unlimited galleries and extra pages (such as Contact and About pages) to the site, and you can post it on your own custom URL, if you like. The ProSite-made portfolio will integrate well with social media tools, and anything you add to your Behance projects will automatically get pushed to the portfolio site without your having to lift a finger.
Once it’s finished, Behanced charges $11 per month to publish and host the site — a pretty sweet deal and one that’s highly competitive. There are no ads on any ProSite portfolio.
Behance CEO Scott Belsky said ProSite is “the best thing we’ve ever built,” and he doesn’t think the new tools will be much of a money-maker for his bootstrapped and profitable company. This is just a feature the creative communities have been requesting for some time, he said Friday in a conversation at Mashable Connect. For real revenue opportunities, Belsky is looking toward the opening of Behance’s API, slated for later this year.
Check out the video and images below, and you can see more examples here.
ProSite Portfolios From Behance
ProSite Portfolios From Behance
ProSite Portfolios From Behance
ProSite Portfolios From Behance
ProSite Portfolios From Behance
ProSite Portfolios From Behance
top image courtesy of iStockphoto user kryczka
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