Start building a simple Portfolio Website for a Junior Developer
Tags: portfolio, juniordeveloper, css, frontenddevelopment
Published: 2017-11-21 12:14:42

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#### Junior Developer

Your searching the web for “ **How to build a portfolio website** ” as a Junior Developer!

That can be challenging because you don’t have a lot of projects to&nbsp;show!

Well In one of my Podcasts I told you a few ideas of [how to get projects but don’t go freelance](https://blog.mrfrontend.org/2017/11/5-tips-landing-first-junior-web-development-job/).

The excuses of “_I don’t have anything to show_” is **BULLSHIT📢**! If you want to be a developer and want to land a great job as a Junior Developer, you have to put your name out on the open web! The INTERNET!

#### Video

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When doing the live video and writing this I will keep my friend Sami in mind. I’ve met [Sami](https://twitter.com/SamiADelgado) in the beginning of February 2016, when I started Mr Frontend.

I posted a tweet if there where any junior developers need any help or mentoring. That was not arrogant, but I had the feeling that I could help out and made an impact in people’s&nbsp;lives!

#### A portfolio is important for Junior Developers

But to come back to the origin of this post. I see a lot of junior developers focussing on non-important stuff. Worry about which framework they should pick for their portfolio. Or how fast can they learn that other cool&nbsp;library?

But none of this is the most important things a developer should do! As you first start with developing with HTML, CSS and maybe JavaScript. It is more important to learn to code. Learn the&nbsp;basics!

If you focus on that portfolio that you need to make more change to land your first job or landing a better job, you have to put in the time and&nbsp;effort.

But **don’t focus on doing perfect**! Just make something simple with the minimal information and **SHIP IT** (_I mean put it online&nbsp;hehe_)!

After putting it online you can focus on making it cooler, fancier. But launch that first version&nbsp;fast!

If you want to land a job so bad, then “ **You’ve got to make your actions backup your ambition** ”!

If you are only talking about you want that job as a developer, put in the work, have patience and work your ass off! Follow your dream and believe you can do&nbsp;it!

A nice quote of [Gary Vaynerchuk](https://medium.com/u/c4ec9163657c) is:

![You've got to make your actions backup your ambition!](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/576/0*FZ5wH4kQzB3AHacw.png)

You can find more of [Garry Vee his Wallpapers](https://medium.com/@garyvee/garyvee-wallpapers-9ce60c3674de) here!

#### Do you need any&nbsp;help?

If you need some guidance, mentoring or just help with your Portfolio, please just content me on Facebook, Twitter PM or Instagram DM and I would love to&nbsp;help!

You can ask Sami how I treat the people I help&nbsp;🙏

If you want to have your portfolio reviewed by me, then put your link in the comments and I will spend a whole video about your portfolio giving actionable feedback!

Don’t be shy! Ask for my help!!!!&nbsp;😉

_Originally published at_ [_Mr Frontend&nbsp;Blog_](https://blog.mrfrontend.org/2017/11/start-building-simple-portfolio-website-junior-developer/)_._

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