Hello all,
I’m looking to build myself another portfolio, something simple and sexy, the only main feature I need being a filter for portfolio items categories. And I need it fast, at least for V1.
Please note that going from scratch it overkill for now, and that I don’t care that much about performance.
I’m a Motion Designer, so I need like a homepage with a nicely filtered portfolio grid, hero showreel, nicely templated yet uniquely tweakable project pages, one about page, one “lab” image gallery, and that’s it.
I currently use Semplice, it’s easy but rather clunky and limited in the end.
I’ve been looking for a few days about current builders and solutiong, like Elementor, Divi, Framer, Webflow, Divhunt, Bricks, Breakdance, Wix Studio, Versoly, Salient theme, etc…
They all have their strengths, but man, they all share the fact that mots of their templates are totally bland / ugly / boring…
One exception being… Framer ! (but I find it insanely expensive). There are at least some sexy modern templates, following today’s trends and best practices. Like these :
[https://bronx.framer.website/portfolio-dark-home](https://bronx.framer.website/portfolio-dark-home)
[https://oursitek.framer.website/](https://oursitek.framer.website/)
[https://sharp-template.framer.website/](https://sharp-template.framer.website/)
Salient has a very nice one too [https://themenectar.com/salient/mag/](https://themenectar.com/salient/mag/) but I’m afraid that it will be painful to tweak into a portfolio…
To conclude, I’m very attracted by Breakdance and Bricks, giving me nice structure and needed possible visual customisation, but building the site from scratch looks like it will be veeery long, and all the templates that could be a nice start are crap to my opinion. I took some time to search, but maybe I didn’t find the nice resources ? Is there a nice modern page builder with actually sexy modern templates ?
I might go with Framer in the end, but I already have bought a hosting for a whole year, so wordpress would be best. Still, I could live with having bought it for nothing but Framer’s prices are really expensive and I can’t believe you only have ONE CMS collection for 15$ per month annual billing.
Thank you in advance for your thoughts !
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I think you could find the type of theme you’re looking for through Spectra but for the really nice ones you probably are looking for you’d have to pay for them (which they aren’t that expensive on Spectra). Besides Spectra I would look through as many theme platforms as possible to find exactly the one you want because it sounds like ‘look’ is your top priority. From what you’re describing the site to be, yes, it doesn’t have that many features and should be pretty straightforward but to get it looking very nice and fully operational would take some time. If you need any help let me know!
I don’t understand, you’re looking at page builders and complaining about the “templates”? You can lay it out however you want and use all the features you see fit. The template is as simple.or as complex as you want it as long as the features are included, unless you want to code it yourself.