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.
Hi! Just released mine. It’s all in one page. Have a look at my website http://www.hasrimy.com Thanks!
I have a parked domains. I think I can use your blog post concept to build a single page portfolio. Nice post sir :)
nice post – cool links
wow…I love your posts..I really enjoyed it. Your site is amazing. Your design is crazy and the topics you post are just perfect. Thanks for posting these findings.
It is such a great collection which design ideas are inspiring.
Thank you very much for the post.
I’m redesigning my portfolio right now – and those sites were some great inspiration.
Very nice list indeed! Todd Miller was a nice find.
great list, i recently opened my single-page portfolio too – http://www.jorobalinov.com
cool web sites…please add more
Just what i’ve been looking for. this post inspire me about doing my portfolio!
great post! thanx!
Another single page site is:
http://www.graylabel.co.uk
I think this guy’s an illustrator.
this is a great list of sites. another one that could be added is http://www.sevenplacesproductions.com
nice work compiling this list.
This is a great list! Those sites have great design.
Oh, really loving the Sushi TAPtapTap page….
very cool… keep them coming!
I agree with Perla. Keep those sites coming. It’s everywhere!
Great selection, thanks
Great resource! This was probably not easy to collect, thanks for taking the time to do so.
This is great inspiration but I miss the information about how to create a site like this. I know css and html but I lack in javascripting, especially creating nice smooth transition effects (I do most in flash). I know there is some open source out there but I don’t know what is good and what is not. Thanks!
For great inspiration, very good Nick, really ! I believe to see my website but no ! ;-)