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 10/02/2013 05:57:57 PM · #1
Ok, DPCers. I tried a search, which returned nothing. What is the difference between a portfolio and a gallery when building a website?
 10/02/2013 05:59:52 PM · #2
The only difference I can imagine is what the intended use is:
portfolio: used to show potential clients what you are capable of
gallery: show off / sell your finished work

my two cents.

Message edited by author 2013-10-02 18:00:28.
 10/02/2013 06:07:23 PM · #3
Hmmm. Makes sense. I'll see if others concur
 10/02/2013 06:12:56 PM · #4
What Ken said. Although i guess there isn't a huge amount of difference these days when the terms are applied to websites.
 10/02/2013 06:13:07 PM · #5
Originally posted by tanguera:
Hmmm. Makes sense. I'll see if others concur

Ohhhh, so my answer is not good enough for ya? Hmmmph. :P

Put it this way: if I was selling fine art, I'd have a GALLERY.
If I was selling photography services, I'd have a PORTFOLIO.
 10/02/2013 06:23:35 PM · #6
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
Originally posted by tanguera:
Hmmm. Makes sense. I'll see if others concur

Ohhhh, so my answer is not good enough for ya? Hmmmph. :P

Put it this way: if I was selling fine art, I'd have a GALLERY.
If I was selling photography services, I'd have a PORTFOLIO.


That makes even more sense. Thank you, Mr. Genius :-)
 10/02/2013 09:53:40 PM · #7
Go back to what they used to be before the online world. A portfolio was a collection of your work held in book form tailored to a potential cleint. It shifts depending on the job you are going after, designed to show the client that you can shoot his portrait, or his factory or his widget he makes in the facory. Different jobs, different portfolio.
Your gallery was where you hung your work for sale to collectors, the work you guessed would sell to whomever walked in. What you hung in a gallery in New York might differ from what you hung in a gallery in Carmel, but it would not differ as much as your portfolio would.
In the online world it is becoming a distinction without a difference.

Message edited by author 2013-10-02 21:56:40.
 10/02/2013 09:59:18 PM · #8
The only reason I felt compelled to ask is that most theme software appears to have different functionalities for each, and I can't figure out those differences.
 10/03/2013 12:25:48 AM · #9
Originally posted by tanguera:
The only reason I felt compelled to ask is that most theme software appears to have different functionalities for each, and I can't figure out those differences.

In terms of most websites - especially those using themes - the only difference between "portfolio" and "gallery" is the spelling.
 10/03/2013 01:08:16 AM · #10
Ha! That's often my sweetie's answer to this kind of question :-)
 10/03/2013 12:20:43 PM · #11
the terms have no meaning for the Web. They mean whatever each software package wants them to mean.
 10/03/2013 01:52:17 PM · #12
Originally posted by posthumous:
the terms have no meaning for the Web. They mean whatever each software package wants them to mean.


Making two different terms for the same thing rather pointless :-)
 10/03/2013 01:57:39 PM · #13
Got a link to this article in an email from PictureCorrect.com.

Be The Engineer Of Your Own Portfolio Website
 10/03/2013 02:24:18 PM · #14
Originally posted by tanguera:
Making two different terms for the same thing rather pointless :-)


pointless,senseless, futile, hopeless, fruitless, useless, needless, in vain, unavailing, aimless, idle, worthless, valueless, of little use, a waste of effort, not to mention unnecessary, not required, inessential, unessential, needless, unneeded, uncalled for, surplus and superfluous.
For good old fashioned redundant "verbage", you have to love the English language.
 10/03/2013 03:26:19 PM · #15
Originally posted by BrennanOB:
Originally posted by tanguera:
Making two different terms for the same thing rather pointless :-)


pointless,senseless, futile, hopeless, fruitless, useless, needless, in vain, unavailing, aimless, idle, worthless, valueless, of little use, a waste of effort, not to mention unnecessary, not required, inessential, unessential, needless, unneeded, uncalled for, surplus and superfluous.
For good old fashioned redundant "verbage", you have to love the English language.


Indeed!!!
 10/03/2013 04:18:55 PM · #16
Originally posted by BrennanOB:
Originally posted by tanguera:
Making two different terms for the same thing rather pointless :-)


pointless,senseless, futile, hopeless, fruitless, useless, needless, in vain, unavailing, aimless, idle, worthless, valueless, of little use, a waste of effort, not to mention unnecessary, not required, inessential, unessential, needless, unneeded, uncalled for, surplus and superfluous.
For good old fashioned redundant "verbage", you have to love the English language.

Sorry for making this extra post ... ;-)
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