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Greg Kitchin
Greg Kitchin
31,522 Points
Posted by Greg Kitchin
Greg Kitchin
31,522 Points

Starting a portfolio site

Working my way through the web-design tutorials, and as I'll be off work for two weeks soon, I want to get as much lessons done as I can, to the end result of building for myself a portfolio website (the first site I've built). However, in regards to content, I probably would have none. How big an issue is this?

In future I'd link the site to anything I build and host on Github, any game-jams I participate in, Photoshop posters (a friend has a comic site in town and I sometimes make event posters for him), any other sites I build, etc, but at the start, is it OK to have really nothing at all?

2 Answers

Samuel Webb
Samuel Webb
25,370 Points
Samuel Webb
Samuel Webb
25,370 Points

Start it now and add the things you've done later. It's no big deal to start out with nothing on your portfolio page. There's no point in waiting to build your website. Maybe it'll push you to take on some projects so that you'll be able to add something to your portfolio.

Greg Kitchin
Greg Kitchin
31,522 Points
Greg Kitchin
Greg Kitchin
31,522 Points

Thanks for that. Funnily enough someones just asking me to build them a site for their business, so that's one portfolio piece to start with.

marsha grasett
marsha grasett
9,995 Points
marsha grasett
marsha grasett
9,995 Points

Agree with above.

Recently have seen spiffy one pagers with no portfolios - just small icons for dribble or behance, github, twitter, instagram etc.

(Or another thought. You could start with a blog. That's a way of getting your personality and design sense plus your projects or interests out there)