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Jeannie Nguyen
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Do You Have Your Own Website/Portfolio?

How many of you have your own website? Did you create it in one go? Launch it and then build it over time?

I haven't created mine yet, hoping to be inspired. Would love to hear about how you decided to design it the way you did.

If you have your own website, please share it below!

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Itachi Uchiha

Yes :) This is my website:

aligoren.com

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Jeannie Nguyen

Very creative 'About Me' section, Ali!

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Itachi Uchiha

Hehe. Thank you :) 🐈

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Martin Belev

I started mine recently. I have been thinking to do it for so long but every time I have some excuse/reason to not start it... At first I was thinking of making everything from scratch but after all I wanted to focus on writing and sharing my knowledge so I end up using a very minimalistic theme and built the site on top of it. I wanted to launch it as quickly as possible and incrementally build over it. It took a little more than a week to get it live. I have made some adjustments and improvements here and there afterwards. Maybe in the future I am going to redesign it all by myself.

The site is at belev.dev

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btlm

I like how clear your page is. Pure simplicity.

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Martin Belev

Thank you 🙃, I was looking for such a template/theme- something very minimal.

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Jeannie Nguyen

Looks good, Martin! I like the light/dark mode capability.

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Martin Belev

Thank you ☺️

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Bugsy Sailor • Edited

My first website in 1997:
bugsy.me/pipeline/4178/

And many, many iterations and domain names later:
bugsy.me

Each one was launched with minimal need and grown or shrunk from there. Changing platforms, changing content, you name it. I've always seen it as my playground to do what I want, it's not for clients, it's not for anyone else, but just for my own amusement. If someone else enjoys it along the way, that's great!

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Jeannie Nguyen

Love the first and current website comparison, Bugsy! Looks good!

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ciscospice

I love your projects and activities. It reminds me of the web back before social media. (Sniff, sniff, nostalgia!) I will be adding Plaidurday to my calendar.

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Bugsy Sailor

Thank you so much Ciscospice!

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Stephen Kastona

1997! Dang! I was probably learning to wear my pants right! 👌

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Sanjeev Sharma

I made the base version in one go. Took me about 2-3 hours. After that, whenever I learn something new I try to include it in my portfolio in some way. For example, recently I learned about Mapbox. So, I added that to my portfolio.

thesanjeevsharma.now.sh - Built using ReactJS + NextJS and TailwindCSS.

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Jeannie Nguyen

I like the colors you chose to go with, Sanjeev!

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Cheuk Ting Ho 🐍

I do have my own website, it's fun to have one. Have been a bit lazy lately and my website totally needs a tidy up (just like my room) 😝
I used Jekyll and hosted on GitHub. I would say that's the easiest way to make a website. There are lot's of free Jekyll themes available and you just need to put some personal touch to it. You may want something fancier if you are a web dev (or want to be a web dev though) ✨

But I am happy with mine so far, check it out here: cheuk.dev

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ciscospice

I just bookmarked your OOT project. I’d like to help out!

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jazkh

Nicely made

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Nicolas.mrt

Hi Jeannie !
I have just finished mine and I can tell you it's definitely worth it.
I was not confident in myself and my design skills are not very good but I chose to make one anyway and I don't regret it.
My advice would be to choose a framework you want to master in order to improve your skills at the same time. For example mine was made with Gatsby which I didn't know before developing my site.
You wan have a look at mine : nicolasmaret.fr
Sorry for non French speakers !

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Jeannie Nguyen

I like how you built the menu on mobile, Nicolas. Clean work!

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Nicolas.mrt

Thank you for your feedback Jeannie! Did you decide to make your own?

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Jeannie Nguyen

I did! Everyone's sites are so creative, can't wait to start building mine. I'll share it once it's live.

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jazkh

Looks beautiful

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Nicolas.mrt

thanks for your feedback !

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Wesley • Edited

I run a light web server on a free TK domain, with links to most of my projects, maybe some tests of forum/SQL-based engines, and some programming files hosted

donnaken15.tk

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Jeannie Nguyen

Let us know when it's online so we can check it out, Wesley!

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Wesley

its back, have to use an old cpanel i used to use though until i can resolve my home server not being public i guess

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Der Sascha

Yep I own a Blog on blog.bajonczak.com ths will be hostet with vuepress and static Website hosting. So it will be fast and looks pretty simple. Adding a new article will be done with markdown.

Very nice I like. But I only use this for bloggin purpose and very unfrequently at the moment.

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Sarah

I have a website/blog, but it's not really as much of a portfolio as it is a place for me to share my writing. I might at some point decide to add some side projects (I can't share any paid work since it's all between NDA's), but for now it's mainly a blog.

I decided to go for a more minimalistic theme, in order to not distract from the reading, but with some small and fun details (like rainbow hover effects).

fossheim.io/

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krckyboy

I made my website a while ago but initially it was just the first section, the part with social links and email. Just recently I've added the "about me" section, "skills" and "projects". I'm going to replace the "wanna hire me?" with a contact form. Hosted on Netlify.

krcky.dev

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