---
title: "How to Build a Web Developer Portfolio for Free"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-build-a-web-developer-portfolio-for-free-ait2g8zg9
source_url: https://stephenandersondev.medium.com/how-to-build-a-web-developer-portfolio-for-free-d456699ecef7
type: article
source: "gitconnected"
published: 2020-10-22T19:38:48.611Z
updated: 2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z
tags: ["webdev", "github", "html"]
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 36
comments: 4
language: en
---

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# How to Build a Web Developer Portfolio for Free

**[gitconnected](https://daily.dev/sources/gc)** · 7 min read · 36 upvotes · 4 comments

## Summary

Stephen Anderson shows you how to build a free Web Developer Portfolio for free. Use GitHub Pages to host a static website from your GitHub account for FREE. Unsplash is a website with over 2 million free high-resolution images brought to you by the world’s generous photographers.

## Full article

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@emmorais** · 3 upvotes

> He is using some resources to make the job easy.
>
> - GitHub Pages (✔️)
> - HTML5 UP
> - Unsplash (✔️)
> - Formspree
>
> But if you really wanna learn as a developer, I don't suggest just copy code how it's possible to see in HTML5 UP (when you just download templates) and Formspree. Besides that, GitHub pages is recommended for simple websites, but if you have environment variables (and don't have a custom host), I recommend you to use Vercel, cause you can encrypt it.

**@caleb** · 2 upvotes

> Reminded me about Unsplash, which is a fabulous resource for images to use for your websites.

**@gos\_2030** · 1 upvotes

> Thanks A Lot!!
> U Saved a lot of time for me,I was thinking of  building a portfolio site from scratch and this article showed up!!

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