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Transform Your Portfolio Website with These Expert Tips

Nick Taylor on March 12, 2023

Yes that title sounds a bit clickbaity, but I assure you this post is not all fluff. Buckle up! I speak to a lot of folks breaking into tech. Many...
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Fedor

Thanks for the article, I agree with each point.
As an addition I would reccomend to try to setup everuthing from scratch on your own everything, especially if you are a novice.
I mean that you rent some VPS, buy domain, tinker with cronjobs and git hooks etc. For a beginner it will give a huge amount of knowlage on how stuff works that would be extra profitable later on.

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Lou Willoughby

I actually love Netlify 😅 I use it for small side projects I have that I just want up fast as the deployment is so slick! One of the best I’ve come across 😊

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anes

I agree with you on the point of implementing CI/CD (tests and deployment). So much so, that I even have articles written about it:
dev.to/aneshodza/ci-crash-course-2eo4

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logarithmicspirals

Great article! I completely agree that having a custom domain for your portfolio website can make a huge difference in terms of professionalism and standing out from the crowd. I also appreciate the emphasis on accessibility and testing - these are often overlooked but so important for creating a high-quality website (and can show competence if one makes their website's code viewable to the public). Thanks for sharing your expertise and resources, it's really helpful for those of us looking to improve our portfolios. I'll definitely be looking more into E2E testing with Cypress (a recent open-source contribution I made required a Cypress test to complete successfully). Keep up the great work!

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Nick Taylor

Thanks for the kind words and congrats on the recent open-source contribution!

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Md.Mustakim Ahmed

Thanks for your Ideas ! 🫡

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Md.Mustakim Ahmed

Keep up the Good work 👍

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Abdulsalaam Noibi

Thanks for sharing Nick

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Abdulsalaam Noibi

OMG,THIS IS HILARIOUS

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Moray Macdonald

Great tips! I love Netlify, I host a load of brochure sites on there for friends. My own site is all handwritten HTML and CSS though - I get enough frontend framework headaches in the day job! 😉

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Lotfi Jebali

This is insightful, thank you 🙏

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Nazarius

Very good post

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Anicet Hounsou

Great article, I am going to build my portfolio website.