Portfolio Website Builders Aren’t Made for Artists. Dunked Is

As of 2025, 80% of clients discover creatives online, yet over half say they’ve lost projects due to outdated or hard-to-edit websites.

This happens because traditional website builders force artists to choose between clunky templates or expensive dev work

Orman Clark has broken that tradeoff by creating Dunked, a sitebuilder used by over 84,019 creative people that don’t have the time or skills to develop a portfolio from scratch.

If you are and artist, photographer, illustrator, or graphic designer wasting too much time hacking together a website than actually creating your art, this article by Website Planet has you covered.

The Portfolio Sitebuilder Dilemma

Most sitebuilders either give you control or simplicity, but rarely both:

• Custom-coded sites offer full design control, but demand steep developer costs and technical expertise.
• Website builders are easier, but the websites they can create are often bloated, rigid, or just plain ugly.

And that’s how so many brilliant portfolios remain trapped in folders, hard drives, and Dropbox links because the tools meant to showcase them got in the way.

That’s the problem Dunked was built to solve.

Instead of forcing creatives to settle for generic templates or wrangle with backend code, Dunked offers a portfolio-first platform that’s fast, beautiful, and easy to use. Orman Clark, wanted to bridge this divide with Dunked, giving artists both from day one.

Creatives Are Losing Work Because of Broken Tools

By 2025, a polished online portfolio isn’t just a nice-to-have, it’s how most creatives get discovered. Yet despite the pressure, many still find themselves stuck using outdated tools that hold them back.

But a website is helpful only if it makes a good first impression. Over half of creatives in various surveys admit they’ve lost out on work because their portfolio was incomplete, outdated, or clunky.

The challenge is, most available tools force a painful tradeoff:

Traditional website builders cram in features meant for blogs and e-commerce, creating bloated experiences that distract from the work itself.

On the other hand, fully custom-coded sites might look stunning, but they are costly, with steep learning curves and long timelines. Even making a minor tweak often means calling a developer.

That’s when some creatives resort to static-site generators or old WordPress templates, hoping for a simpler fix. But those often lead to visually awkward results, mobile compatibility issues, and maintenance headaches.

The cycle goes on, and the creative is stuck on debugging his websites instead of focusing on his work, while his portfolio remains buried in folders and hard drives, never making it in front of the people who need to see them.

A Better Way: Simple, Stunning, and Built for Creative Work

Dunked eliminates all that. It gives users instant access to professionally designed templates, fully responsive, retina-ready, and tailored specifically for showcasing visual work.

Creatives can:

• Upload and arrange work with simple drag-and-drop tools
• Embed media from YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud, Flickr, and 500px in a click
• Customize colors and typography without touching a line of code
• Unlock deeper control with optional HTML/CSS editing (if they want it)

This way Dunked doesn’t just make it easy, it makes creatives feel proud of what they put online.

Forget generalist website builders, Dunked strips away everything unnecessary, and layers in what creatives actually need, like password protection for client-only projects.

The Proof: Speed to Launch and Real Results

“Five job interviews in less than two weeks… without Dunked I’d still be building my site from scratch.”

That’s just one of many testimonials Dunked has earned directly from users on G2, where it gets standout scores in drag-and-drop functionality (9.0) and portfolio presentation (9.4).

Want to stop fighting your portfolio and start making money from it?

Try Dunked free for 10 days (no credit card required).

You will be finally able to launch a professional portfolio that reflects the quality of your work without wasting weeks or paying a developer.

Website: https://dunked.com

Follow Orman Clark: https://twitter.com/ormanclark