Online Portfolio?! Who's the whut now? HELP!

[JonFromMaplewood]

Dear FOT,

I am a designer of systems with speech interfaces (e.g. dictation software, phone menus, voice search, you name it).  Some of this work has graphical elements, some does not. 

Anyway, a potential dream gig has come my way and I want it. Badly.

The interview process has been going well so far.  But then the hiring manager asked me for a portfolio of my work.  I do not have one.  This happened once before on a job interview, and when I told the person I didn't have one, negotiations broke off.

Look, I'm 41.  I'm from the days when a resume and references were all that was needed.  Clearly, I need to wake up.

Is there anyone out there who can help me slap together a decent online portfolio in, say, 48 hours?  I will pay you....just let me know the going rate.  If you're local, I'll come to you. If not, I'll call.  I will provide the content...you just need to make it look presentable.

Please let me know if you can help out.

Thanks,
Dr. Luddite, Stupid Guy

[senorcorazon]

I sure wish I had the time to help out this weekend, but here are some suggestions:

- http://www.indexhibit.org/ You would need a website setup and a nerd to do the install but in the end you get a clean and professional looking site
- Tumblr or Wordpress - you can get a site together pretty quickly without nerd help. You can pick some preset themes and viola. It literally takes 15 minutes to get done. If you have a little more time you can host a version and get custom themes for cheap/free.

Good luck!

[JonFromMaplewood]

Out of desperation, I got a non-FOT to help me out. : )

Thank you anyway!

-JfM

[Kim Kelly]

For future reference, there are some pretty good free WYSIWYG editors. I like KompoZer, even though the spelling is really dumb.

[JonFromMaplewood]

Thanks.  Ended up using WordPress.

[senorcorazon]

If you need some good themes from an FOT, there's one here in New York: http://bit.ly/ijmnU He's a good guy and hopefully won't mind me plugging his stuff.