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How to Build a Great Developer Portfolio (+ Examples & Tools)

Anastasia πŸ„πŸ»β€β™€οΈ on May 26, 2021

*header pic by Shen Comix As any other specialists, developers need to market themselves to get dream jobs and projects, attract more clients and ...
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Mat Jones β€’ β€’ Edited

Many developers forget to buy an SSL certificate

I’ve never, ever had to buy an SSL cert separately from a domain name. If your domain name registrar doesn’t give you an SSL cert for free, pick a different registrar.

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Jordan Kicklighter β€’

I disagree that one should expect a registrar to supply a cert. Many hosting options also supply free certs using Let's Encrypt (or other CA options). I have used Google Domains and Namecheap for their clean UX, but neither of them supply certs. Hosting a site on Netlify makes this a non-issue.

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peerreynders β€’

In most cases you can use free certificates from Let's Encrypt.

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Atulit Anand β€’

I'll start working on mine today. Thanks for this handy guide lol everyone is so talented.
I'll also share mine right here after deploying it. Stay tuned . Have a beautiful day.

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Anastasia πŸ„πŸ»β€β™€οΈ actiTIME Inc β€’

Good luck with the portfolio! ✊
Looking forward to seeing it ✨

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Ashley Sheridan β€’

One thing I've always found to be good advice is the layout of your skillset if you're presenting that in some way. There are a few key points:

  • At some point someone responsible for recruiting will look over it. Sometimes, they need to review a lot of them in a short space of time, so you need to ensure you're not dropped in that first round of review.
  • Avoid scoring systems for your skills. I've had to review CVs where candidates had marked themselves 10/10 on a particular programming language, yet only had a few years experience.
  • Whatever you've got on the website might be printed out, so consider how that will look.

An approach I've found useful for myself is to present my skills in a table, and mark them with words like "fair" or "good" to explain my level of each of them. Lastly, I set up print stylesheets in the CSS to ensure that the table was presented well and looked good in grey without images.

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Paulo Wells β€’

Very good advices! Thank you very much!

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Anastasia πŸ„πŸ»β€β™€οΈ actiTIME Inc β€’

You're welcome πŸ™

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Yuri Filatov β€’

very useful and interesting article, thank you very much!

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Anastasia πŸ„πŸ»β€β™€οΈ actiTIME Inc β€’

My pleasure, Yuri!

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Vadym Khodak β€’

Thank you!
Very interesting blog post!

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Anastasia πŸ„πŸ»β€β™€οΈ actiTIME Inc β€’

Thank you, Vadim πŸ™

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Vadym Khodak β€’

Thank you!
As I mentioned before I decided to review my personal web site and I've done this.
vadymkhodak.com/
There are many things that I still want to improve but it is much better than the one I had before.

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Vadym Khodak β€’

BTW, after reading your article I decided to completely review my personal resume web site to make it significantly better.
Thank you for inspiring me to do this!

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AbΓΊ-Bakr Pereira KebΓ© β€’

Building portfolio is a worthwhile effort. Good tips πŸ‘ŒπŸ‘Œ

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RamΓ³n Gallo β€’

Thank you very much for your article. It's really helpful for people trying to both starting and maintaining their portfolio.

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rastaFlow β€’

wow that was helpful content more than i thought thank you 5 stars

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Anastasia πŸ„πŸ»β€β™€οΈ actiTIME Inc β€’

Haha, thank you! I'm so glad the you enjoyed it!

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Erik Thiart β€’

I tried to follow your recommendations closely, would love some feedback, erikthiart.com

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Anderson Osayerie β€’

Good content

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Anastasia πŸ„πŸ»β€β™€οΈ actiTIME Inc β€’

Thanks! 😊

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Muhammad Irva β€’

great content

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kmagai β€’

Thank you for writing it. It was a great read!
If you don't mind, can I translate it into Japanese?
I will of course post a link to this article.

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Anastasia πŸ„πŸ»β€β™€οΈ actiTIME Inc β€’

Thank you!
Sure, you are welcome to translate it!

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