How to Make an Online Portfolio Website from Scratch

Learn how to create a portfolio website using WordPress. Showcase your photography, graphics, or other work. No coding.

What You'll Learn

  • Learn to add Pinterest style image posts
  • Learn to add albums and photo galleries
  • Learn to add About Me, Frequently Asked Questions, and Get in Touch Pages
  • Learn to add a contact form as well as tap-to-call / tap-to-email buttons for mobile
  • Learn to categorize images / posts and add a search bar
  • Learn to choose the right domain name for your site
  • Learn to get your web hosting set up
  • Learn how to create a subdomain for a development site
  • Learn how to install WordPress
  • Learn how to create your own portfolio website from scratch!

Requirements

  • Any computer with internet access
  • You'll need the WordPress software, but don't worry, it's free and we'll show you how to install it in the course!
  • No coding or prior experience required

Who This Course Is For

  • Photographers, graphic designers, artists, freelancers, or anyone who wants to showcase their work online
  • Anyone who wants to create an online portfolio website
  • Anyone who wants to learn the basics of WordPress
  • Anyone looking to get started in web development

Learn how to create a beautiful, portfolio website, in just one hour. This course is great for photographers, graphic designers, or anyone else who wants to showcase their work online, and acquire new clients.

We’ll create an actual portfolio website using WordPress. You’ll see how everything is done, step by step, from start to finish. No experience and no coding required.

The site will include the following features:

  • image posts
  • photo galleries
  • about me page
  • frequently asked questions page
  • get in touch (contact me) page
  • contact form
  • responsive image lightbox
  • search bar
  • category pages for images and posts
  • one tap call button on mobile
  • one tap email button on mobile

In addition, the website is completely responsive, so it’ll look good on any screen, tablet, or smartphone.

Never built a website before? Don’t have computer science degree? No worries, we’ll start from absolute zero. You’ll learn how to register a domain name, set up web hosting, and install WordPress (in other words, everything you need to get your site live on the internet). This course is a great intro to WordPress, and since we’ll build with WordPress, you won’t need to know html, css, javascript, php, ruby… you get the idea.

WordPress is perfect for building a portfolio website. You’ll be able to get the site up and running quickly, adding content is a cinch, and you can maintain everything on the site on your own. We’ll be using Fukasawa WordPress theme, which is incredibly beautiful, easy to use, and best of all… it’s completely free!

If you want to display your photography, graphics, designs, or any other work on your own custom website, then this is the course for you. We’ve cut out the fluff, so that you can get your portfolio website online as quickly is possible. Now go get started!

Course Details

Author: Hoku Ho

52min of on-demand video

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