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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
