hey guys welcome back to my channel so
today I'm going to be talking about
developer
portfolios basically developer
portfolios are just
websites that showcase your skills as a
developer
this is an extremely important part of
the interview process
and can really help you stand out as a
candidate personally
when I was interviewing I did not have a
developer portfolio which was a huge
mistake
I think there are so many perks to
having just a website dedicated to your
projects and dedicated to
who you are as a developer there are so
many reasons why
I personally like developer portfolios
and why I would really encourage you to
make one the first reason is that it
just is a cohesive
a place where you can kind of showcase
your projects showcase your
actual experience building software
projects are one of the best ways to get
a job and to look very attractive to
employers because it shows
employers that you have real life
experience building these things
this video is going to be broken up into
two parts I'm going to first talk about
the things you definitely need to have
in your developer portfolio
and I'm also going to be building my own
first developer portfolio
yes I'm going to be building my first
one using Wix
so I want to give a shout out to our
sponsor for this video which is Wix
thank you, Wix, for sponsoring this video
go to Wix.com/go/thecomeup to start your own
professional Wix website today
and let's hop right into it these are
the must-have for your developer
portfolio
if you don't have a developer portfolio
that doesn't have these things
now you know now you know what you need
to definitely have so the first thing
you definitely need is to have an about
me page
this about me page will just give a very
short bio and
just sort of be an introduction to who
you are as a developer the next
but most important part of your
developer portfolio is having a project
section
this is the proof of what you can
actually, build as a developer
it provides real-life examples of
projects that you've actually worked on
and things that you've actually built so
this is the star of the show for the
projects part make sure that you have a
brief verb about
the project what the project is the
technologies you've used as well as a
link to the deployed project
or if you have a GitHub where it's
located you can probably link to that as
well
the next part of your developer
portfolio that you definitely need to
have is just your resume part
that explains your experience and your
education I would also use this
part of your developer portfolio to just
talk about the specific technologies
that you've worked on and any skills
you've built
I know a lot of people that are watching
this channel might be people who are
self-taught
in the education section I would also
recommend that you add any relevant
coursework and any relevant classes that
you've taken either on Udemy
or Coursera or just anywhere I would
definitely add that to this section as
well
also for my self-taught people I would
also add your non-technical experiences
but I would definitely make sure that
you put
your projects first and then put your
experience below that
and finally probably the most important
part of your developer portfolio is
definitely going to be
how people can actually reach you you
want to make sure you have either your
email or your social media profiles
linked down below
either your LinkedIn or your GitHub
pages any way someone can use to reach
you
and just to contact you if they're
interested in what they saw on your
developer portfolio
so without further ado I'm going to be
building my own developer portfolio
which is this is the first time I'm
doing it so
I'm very late to the game don't be like
me so I'm going to be building my
developer portfolio using Wix
we'll get started by using the Wix
Editor one of the things I like about
Wix is that they have all these
different
templates that you can choose from
this one really sticks out to me I think
it looks really nice and clean and
professional
okay cool I think I'm gonna probably go
with this one so let's go ahead and edit
this
so now that we've chosen a template now
it's time to go ahead and edit this
I really like this one I think it looks
really cute and it fills a lot of things
that we have in our checklist
we have the about me section we have the
resume section
we also have projects and we have a way
for people to contact us
and I think it looks really nice and
clean first I'm going to do is just of
course
change it to my name
okay the next thing we want to do is
definitely change this image because
this is not how it looks
nice I think it looks really nice and
goes with the general theme
okay cool so
I'm gonna remove this I think we don't
need to add that
and then I'm going to just go ahead and
fill this
thing out and just say hello
I'm Bukola
so this provides a little bit more about
me
and I just made a couple spelling
mistakes so let me just
nice so now that we've solved all the
spelling mistakes we have this about me
section
as we discussed this is like a very
important section in
your developer portfolio so you want to
make sure that this part
stands out and it shows like your
personality because this is the first
thing people are going to click
when they look at your page
you also want to make sure you add the
way people can contact you
nice let's see if we can preview it too
just to get an idea of what things look
like just by looking at the front page
nice it looks very clean and
has my about me section it has like how
you can contact me
and how you can follow me um
and now we can work on the other
sections
so let's go back to the Editor and now
let's talk about the star of the show
which are your projects
what I'm actually going to do is this
horizontal menu I'm going to change it
up
and I want um projects to come like
immediately after the about me section
because I think that projects are really
the star of your
developer portfolio like we talked about
before
your projects are kind of give proof
that you know how to code you know how
to build
whatever application or project
now we have that let's go ahead and
hop on over to the projects section
right now I'm gonna only do two of my
projects
the way I'm gonna do this is I'm gonna
have like
some description of the project
and then I'm gonna have like the
technologies I used
to build this project this would be a
really great way to
you know describe the project a little
bit more so
iIm going to remove this role title part
and I'm just going to
focus on the projects just like we said
like we did over here I'm just going to
do the same thing over here
projects that I already have on my
GitHub
okay nice so I'm gonna put the button
right next to this and just like let
people know
that they can check out you can check it
out
okay and I'm gonna link
to where the project lives on GitHub but
ideally you want to have the project
deployed
and maybe by the time I publish this
video actually have these projects
deployed
because I feel like that's more
professional like the
user can interact with it
so I want to do the same thing copy
paste
 
I want to just make sure this is
about the same and then what we might
want to do is we want to just change it
here
and we want it to point to the other
project that I have on my GitHub
okay so now we have the
the project name we have a way for
people to check out the project I'm just
gonna make this button a little
smaller uh let's see if I can make
the text actually I think I liked it the
way it looked before
so
so now I'm adding just the image of that
wardrobe at the
project
okay let's see if we can like shrink it
you know
um we can just have some like call to
action check out
some of my projects
down below
and then when you click check it out you
can go ahead and check out the project
nice so we have we've done the project
section
which is the star of the show and now
it's time to do the resume section
so we go we save what we have
okay now let's go to
the next thing which is the resume
section
okay so again the resume section is
extremely important
and even if you're you don't have
necessarily any
technical experience I would still
personally put any and any
experience that you've had in the past
in
your experience section so
here I'm going to just put my college
my college um if you're a non or someone
without a CS degree I would also add any
of the classes that you've taken
that are like computer science classes
and if you have any certificates I would
also add those down below as well
let's go ahead and change this
change what's linked and let's
choose a file so we're going to upload
the resume
to add to this
okay now let's go ahead and
pull up my resume
nice so we have my resume here um I'm
gonna put
my job that i've done
so
okay I'm just going to put this right
straight from
my resume I am not even going to bother
to change anything
nice so I wrote just a couple things i
got to work on
at my company
okay cool so let's head back to the
Editor and finish
up this education section okay
so now let's go
and put in that degree
and what I'm going to do is
I always put like the relevant
coursework that I took in college and
also
outside of college in this section so
just put
relevant coursework to
what um is relevant to like programming
and stuff like that so
okay and we'll just I'm gonna just list
it down like this just so it's a little
bit more clear to see
I'm also going to just go ahead and add
like one of my math classes because i
feel like that will look really good on
my resume as well
so now with our projects done
and our resume done we've done the bulk
of the work it takes
to create your developer portfolio as
you can see it's not so difficult
to create your developer portfolio so
the next thing I would do is
definitely go to the contact section so
if anyone liked what they saw they can
just reach out to you
cool so let's go ahead and preview this
website now we have
our contacts page where people can
easily contact you
have our email follow up we have our
about me section
okay we have our project section we have
our resume
and that's it we are done
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Thank you guys so much for sticking around
and watching  this entire video I know it was really long
but thank you so much for watching it
and I'll see you guys next time
