Are you looking for ideas to design a portfolio site? Maybe all you need is a single-page site? Single-page design works if you don't have much content, but just want to showcase your work. It can save time and cost because you don't need to build the CMS and templates. In other words, it's perfect for the non-coders. Here are 30+ single-page portfolio sites with exceptional design and implementation. Hopefully, they can give you some inspiration.
We Bleed Design
Click on any of the menu buttons at the top and have fun with the scrolling animation.
TapTapTap
A creative way to layout and display the iPhone app information — all on one page.
Luke Larsen
Aquarium themed portfolio of Luke Larsen.
Dean Oakley
Horizontal scrolling portfolio of Dean Oakley.
Benjamin David (Nyxen)
Beautiful portfolio of Benjamin David (the animated loading graphic is cute).
Paolo Boccardi Photographer
The thumbnail tooltip combined with the horizontal scrolling is the perfect match.
Contreforme.ch
Very nice scrolling and navigation effects — all done with Javascript and Mootools.
YouLove.Us
Click on the links and watch the sky background scroll from dawn to night.
Marius Roosendaal
A portfolio of Marius Roosendaal. You can choose from a multi-theme selection: Day, Night, and Sunrise.
Volll.com
Check out the animated clouds and the squid at the footer, they are not Flash animation.
Keithar.com
Portfolio of Brad Candullo
Kinoz
Stoodeo
Nice header illustration!
Seb Design
Tanya Merone
Tanya Merone is one of the early single-page portfolio sites. It hasn't been updated for a long time, but it's still looking good.
Puneet Sakhuja
Sroown
Simona Munteanu
Suffolk Software
Chama Inc
Frojd
Dale Harris
Todd Miller
B.N.Weiss
Grafikas
Janic Design
Hot Meteor
This is one of my favorites. The fonts are hot!
Julien Dassonval
Pikaboo
This one is fun to navigate because of the smooth transitional effects (by the way, it's not Flash).
Studio E-Space
Contrast
Simple and direct.
This is genius! And I was just thinking about redoing my portfolio.
Definitely being delicious’d.
I love one page portfolios. Simple and expressiv!
Good overview, nice!
holly angels,that is what I am taking imagination from, thanks,man
Some pretty sweet inspiration! Thanks for sharing :)
Very nice list:)i love pikaboo.grunge rock:)
Great compilation! I love your website! Keep the great posts coming! Your work inspires me a lot! I am an amateur web designer! ;-)
I had so much fun looking through these websites. They’re extremely inspirational. ;)
Nice list, I have to say youlove.us has to be on of my favourites. You should have thrown my site into that mix;) – http://www.cervencotter.com
Nice showcase, i like the Brad Candullo and Frojd sites. Not extreamly complicated designs but slick, clean and nice colors..
It’s “We Bleed Design”, not “Web Leed Design”.
Harry
Great and inspiring article. :)
Thanks!
@Harry Roberts – Typo fixed. Thanks!
WOW ….
Thanks for sharing !
Great Collection!! I really like some sites’ design.. Really useful list for newbie designer like me. Thanks
Some nice sites. Very inspiring.
Check Tanya Merone’s About Section and Laco Janic’s About Section. Interesting writing.
I don’t think Paolo Boccardi Photographer http://www.fashionphotographer.it/ is consider single page portfolio site.
my portfolio site’s also single paged, but it’s in bulgarian
http://www.drinchev.com
Great portfolio sites, thanks!
I have a single page site too :)
http://manuontheweb.com/pf
Thanks for the list Nick