I agree. Watch what you do with Flash portfolios. Long loading times are a big turn off to employers and other people that look at your site. They also have very little to no SEO capability in many cases, it could be difficult for people to find you or stumble across your website. The best advice I ever received about online portfolios is...'KEEP IT SIMPLE'...Employers have very little time to review portfolios so pretty much everything other than your work is just bells and whistles. Let your work speak for itsself.
I've always said that "I am my worst enemy when it comes to designing my website" Your own site always seems to be the hardest to design for some reason. Like I said before. Let your work stand out and make sure it pops off the page instead of all the other graphics on the page.
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