Website development portfolio

Cromulent · 3 Dec 2019 at 00:30

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?

Deleted member 77746 · 3 Dec 2019 at 11:48

A template either get someone to customise one for you or download a free one.

Hades · 3 Dec 2019 at 17:50

Who are the clients? Are they actual end users or front end developers?

Cromulent · 3 Dec 2019 at 19:01

Hades said:
Who are the clients? Are they actual end users or front end developers?

Mainly businesses looking to hire a full time backend developer.

balanceballs · 4 Dec 2019 at 23:09

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.

Deleted member 77746 · 5 Dec 2019 at 11:19

Or you don’t make a website you just show them live rather than a portfolio?

Cromulent · 5 Dec 2019 at 16:51

mrbell1984 said:
Or you don’t make a website you just show them live rather than a portfolio?

That was what I originally meant by a portfolio. Sorry for any confusion. I'll get something set up in the next couple of weeks as I have some spare time at the moment.

Deleted member 77746 · 5 Dec 2019 at 18:01

Cromulent said:
That was what I originally meant by a portfolio. Sorry for any confusion. I'll get something set up in the next couple of weeks as I have some spare time at the moment.

oh right so you haven't even designed any sites then that use your back end? (excuse the terminology) lol

Cromulent · 5 Dec 2019 at 19:11

mrbell1984 said:
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.