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?

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.

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.

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.