Watermarking original work
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On tumblr (which is just my photography), I watermark my images subtley in the bottom right hand corner. I make sure I set the content source as my website and also put a click-through link back to my site too. It doesn't stop anyone taking the images but hopefully I'll get the credit. Since it's just personal stuff I'm happy to put it out there. I've seen some of it cropping up on Pinterest which I'm not part of. Part of me thinks it's bad that my images are being taken from Tumblr and then pinned up on Pinterest, but then the other half of me is flattered that someone bothered to do it.
For folio work I'm not sure about watermarking, since it could ruin the look of the design work. In general people on the internet are lazy and if they can't just grab a jpg they won't. So any barrier you can put up to stop people from dragging and dropping jgps, the better.
But if you're really worried about people stealing the content of your designs then just don't make your site public. Put it behind a password and only share it with who you want to.