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Sloan's Inbox: What is the Secret to a Truly Great Portfolio?

Hey there, hope your week is going well so far!

If we haven't already met— I'm Sloan, your friendly neighborhood DEV Moderator. 🦥

Welcome Back to Sloan's Inbox!

Sloan's Inbox is your go-to place for sharing advice and observations. Whether it's career development, office politics, industry trends, or improving technical skills, we've got you covered. Every week I ask a new question to the community so we can continue to grow and learn from each other.

Today I am here with a question from one of my new members and we could use your help!

My question is:

What advice or suggestions do you have for creating great and unique portfolios?

Maybe you are gearing up to make your first portfolio or hunkering down to edit the fifth rendition— either way, we could use your tips. Bonus points if you drop an example of a portfolio that you like down below.

Happy coding y'all and I will see you again next week for another Sloan's Inbox!


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Rachel Fazio

I find that I am always in the process of makeover-ing my portfolio. Key things I learned are to focus on being concise and show off your personality!!! Try to create a system that is easy to update so that you can add things to it as you go.

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Ismael Ramos 🚀

My key guidelines would be:

  1. The design must be unique. I mean a custom design with a different layout.
  2. Wording must be in a friendly casual tone.
  3. Trim all the fat. Try to caught the user attention with sections like projects or personal thoughts, blog posts, etc
  4. Be yourself.

What do you think about mine?
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