Published on Feb. 7th, 2020
One of the best advices I received at Macalester was to create a portfolio website where I can show my projects and experiences to other people. Having a online-version of my resume and being able to send an URL to anyone have made my job hunting much more efficient and effective. It is also a great place to organize what I learned in school and at work. The common problem of having a portfolio website, however, is the knowledge and cost required to do it.
So, I decided to share the process I went through while making this website, only using free tools available on the Internet. Bootstrapious.com offeres free download of many template themes to create a website. Among milliions of templates, I chose this template because it's simple and beautiful. Then, I found that Github Pages allows publishing a STATIC website for FREE with a normal github account. The whole process of creating a portfolio was motivated by the course I took at Macalester with Professor A. Johnson and I used the same template as this example introduced in the class, created by Katie Jolly '19. So, here is the guide to create your portfolio website.
Join Github from HERE.
Bootstrapious.com offeres free download of many template themes to create a website.
This part requires some knowledge in HTML/CSS. Use online tutorials and other platform such as w3school.com to learn how the languages work and try editing.
Follow the Github Pages Instruction to publish a STATIC website for FREE with your github account. I edit my HTML/CSS codes with ATOM editor and push my files using Github Desktop.
Now, your portfolio website is published and anyone can see your cool projects by accessing https://(username).github.io/.
Please feel free to shoot me an email if you have any questions.