“Surely,” you might say, “An dashing and decadent, international entrepreneur and creative genius like Mims Hughes Wright III must have his proverbial shit together”, [pause], “Right?”
Wrong.
I’m just as lazy as the next guy when it comes to updating my portfolio page. In fact, I have for the past many years neglected to keep my portfolio page up-to-date as I imagine some of you probably have.
Since about 2003, it’s looked like this mucous-coloured collection of bad links:
As of this week, it looks slightly better!!!
But more important than looking better, the work on this page is up to date!!! I used object oriented PHP and mySQL for the backend and it actually stores an archive of every project I’ve ever worked on. The images are pulled in from Flickr using phpFlickr. It also generates XML data from the database so I could move this to Flash later (5 years from now).
Even though I’ve designed and re-designed my site over the past few years and had very lofty ambitions, I actually managed to finish the new portfolio page and the homepage in less than a weekend. I know it’s not gonna win any FWA‘s, but I’m proud of myself and I hope it is an inspiration for you to stop thinking about updating your site and start updating your site.