Today, I’m gonna write something short about keeping the visitor numbers up. Just some thoughts I came up with.

Let’s say you have your fancy fine portfolio home page finally set up, great work! I know how much you had to go through to get there. Believe me. You are looking at version five of my homepage, and I’ve only had one for around two years.. It’s very easy to spend more time on the design of the page rather than the content

This is the first one I’m really satisfied with. It has taken a lot of reading and researching to come up with. (Kudos to Smashing Magazine for a lot of the information and ideas I’ve based it on).

Let’s get to the point I wanted to make.

A regular portfolio webpage from some random unknown artist like myself might not get that many visits per day or week or month but there is a way to change that, I’ve noticed. You gotta be REALLY ACTIVE. Especially on discussion boards, twitter, facebook, other communities etc. It works. If I announce an update for my page on facebook, I get around 80-200 visitors within the next 24 hours. Sure, most of them are from people who might not get too much out of looking at my dishwashers. But the fine thing is, that SOME of the visitors actually might. That’s the good part. For example old classmates or persons you met at Siggraph that year. THAT is valuable.

Then, if some recruiter or alike visits the homepage and notices a living thing, it all suddenly gets a whole lot more interesting. At least that’s what I’ve heard/read/noticed

So stay active! Don’t let the page die.. yeah I’m done there.

Other updates: I’ve been adding a lot of work from 2009 now and more might come soon, not sure about release dates or anything though. Some cool personal projects are currently in the making as well!

I also want to add that I’m available for freelance work.

And by the way, 9 months ’til I turn 23! Don’t forget to write that down!!

Good evening!