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How to build a portfolio website with AI

Your work is good and there is nowhere to send people to see it.

A portfolio where the work leads, with project pages that explain what you did rather than just showing the outcome, and a way to hire you.

The prompt

Paste this as-is, then change the details to yours. It is written to produce something working rather than something pretty.

Build a portfolio site for my work. Home page: a short introduction and my best six projects as a grid. Each project gets its own page with images, what the brief was, what I did and the result. Add an about page with my background, and a contact page with a short form. Restrained design — generous white space, the work at full width, typography doing the talking.

How to get it right

  1. 1

    Choose six pieces, not sixty

    A portfolio is an argument, not an archive. The weakest piece sets the impression, so the edit matters more than the count.

  2. 2

    Write the brief, the work and the result

    Images show what it looked like. Those three lines show how you think, which is what someone hiring is actually buying.

  3. 3

    Make the contact route obvious

    Someone impressed on a project page should not have to navigate to act on it.

What it will not do

  • Image quality is yours to bring. The layout can be excellent and the page will still only be as good as what is in the frames.

95 of these are already live

Published sites, not mockups — open any of them.

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