"Under construction"

Is your portfolio under construction?

Instead of linking to a dead-end page that says “Portfolio coming soon,” take advantage of our attention. You have the website in your bio and we clicked it, after all. Give us some value:

Link up your Twitter and Instagram. Add your email address. Write a quick, bulleted list that tells us what you’re doing and working on now.

Even better, embed Instagram feed for a sneak preview of your work.

Even better, drop in your favorite recent experiments to give us a glimpse of who you are.

Even better, add a simple grid of images to tease your latest project.

Better yet, write a two-sentence introduction that sums up what you do.

See what you just did?

You just launched a working prototype of your website.

It’s no longer “under construction,” a dead link that takes us nowhere.

It’s your portfolio.

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Related reading:

How to build your first portfolio - A guide by Semplice

A step-by-step checklist for creating your first online portfolio as a student or new designer.

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