Building My Portfolio - A Few Early Sketches

I thought the first step in designing my own portfolio, before content, before theme, colour, style, etc, is just to nail a basic layout. I did a bit of doodling and made a few sketches...

 This one would be a very basic layout, with links down the side, images on the right and a signiture banner across the bottom, perhaps with my email and blog on. Simple and basic, perhaps too much so. Then again, I don't want to create too much work from myself within a program I'm still getting to know.

 The link in this one would be horizontal instead, image still on right, but name down side. I thought the bars on the left could be different colours maybe, each one in turn providing a link to some other page. Although quite how I would make thaqt work in InDesign is beyond me at this point.

Again, alot more basic, and while these sketches all look very simple, the intention is to make each part of them alot more creative. This creativity will feed from whichever theme or style I chose to go with, and not be just the standard coloured shapes you see here. In other words, they'll look a lot better I promise, haha!

I could sketch until my pencil wore down, but I think the best thing to do is just get on InDesign and fool around...