Website development portfolio

Soldato
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I'm looking to build a portfolio so I can show off to clients but because I am primarily a backend developer it is a bit tricky to make flashy graphics and nice looking styles.

What would you do in this instance? Just show off some tech demos or something else?
 
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As above get a template of some sort but link to and talk about your backend skills. Anyone who knows what they're hiring won't be bothered about the design as much as your experience.
 
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oh right so you haven't even designed any sites then that use your back end? (excuse the terminology) lol

Yes I have but none of them are public code so I can't really show anything off. I built a blogging platform but tended to use Bootstrap for the frontend which is a bit of a cop out. I have one project planned which I want to use to set up a business but if it doesn't work out I'm just going to open source the whole thing and put it on my public GitLab.

I really want to refresh my knowledge of CSS since CSS Grid and CSS Flexbox are now fairly well supported. Basically I want to start again from scratch and see how it goes. I've learnt a lot from my previous projects so starting from scratch will result in a cleaner code base and will hopefully show off some of my skills a bit better.
 
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