Landscape Architecture Resource

by Chris Heiler

Are you tired of hauling around photos and renderings to show to prospects?

Portfolios have always been a great way for landscape architects to present past work to potential clients. However, today, prospects want to see our portfolios before they meet with us. They want to see our work before they even pick up the phone.

Having your own website is an effective way to show off your portfolio, but what about those who don't have a website?

Thankfully there is Carbonmade.com. This web-based application allows you to easily display, organize and update your own online portfolio.

Who is Carbonmade for?

• Landscape designers who don't have a website
• Designers or companies who want a “stand alone” portfolio, separate from the main company website
• Students who want to display their work online inexpensively
• Designers who are working for someone else and want to display their personal work online
• Designers seeking employment

Carbonmade.com is absolutely painless to learn and requires no web experience to manage.

It took me less than an hour to sign up for my free account, upload photos and organize my portfolio.

The free account allows you to have 5 projects with 35 images. If you want the ability to upload more than this, you can opt for the premium package. This is $12 per month and allows 50 projects and 500 photos.

Upon registering with Carbonmade, you are given a unique URL (web address). You can use this in all of your advertising and marketing just like you would a typical website address.

You can register by going to www.carbonmade.com

Below is a photo of my personal Carbonmade portfolio:

You can check it out at http://fountainhead.carbonmade.com

Chris Heiler is a professional landscape designer and editor of LandscapeLeadership.com- an online community of landscape design professionals.Visit LandscapeLeadership.com for access to more technology tips as well as video tutorials, articles and other valuable resources for professional designers and landscape architects.