My question: what are some ways to get my digital portfolio seen by potential clients? This article is more tailored to designers, but it's still relevant for all media types. Get your art featured somewhere. Add a blog to your domain. Do art/design for a well-known name. Give stuff away (info/how-to, links, techniques, templates, etc). Get interviewed. Join a network (behance, flickr, etc). Write an article/tutorial/blogpost for another website/publication. Pay-per-click advertising.

User-controlled site that showcases interesting digital portfolios. Like this diigo group, but on a larger scale. Worth checking out.

Really simple, beautiful portfolio site. He only has one trade he showcases and that is just fine, allows for simplicity. His site is easy to navigate, has clear definitions of content, and good typography. A good trick he's done for his homepage is shown one strong piece of his that communicates what he's about. He only includes on his site what is necessary. Less is more.

Sick portfolio. The organization of her content is really effective. Her skills page essentially replaces the need for a resume. The only thing I don't like about this is that the nav is always on a slightly different part of each page. If she had it floating somehow, or at least kept it in the same coordinates on each page, that'd be much better, as her content is always aligned upper left.

His nav is too try-hard for my taste. The typography is tooooo big and distracting from the content. That and the language he uses isn't always clear what it is he's linking to in the nav. The nav in the footer is much better. Dude's a good poster designer though.

What works for this is that immediately you can see that he is a creative thinker. There is a deliberate effort at communicating this with his background image. His work is strong. But the greyscale design of his site with an abundance of curvy lines makes italic typography (his font face) difficult to read. And there is no navigation system, no organization or hierarchy of information. So if he showed his portfolio to a potential client who wanted a design poster done, they might not get far enough down his portfolio before getting bored. One-page portfolios are cool but he needs nav-links and an organization of content.