How to Make an Online Portfolio Website from Scratch

Create a stunning portfolio website with WordPress in just one hour. Perfect for photographers and designers, no coding required!

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Brief Summary

This course teaches you how to build an eye-catching portfolio website with WordPress, perfect for showcasing your work—like photography or graphics. No coding needed, and you’ll learn all the steps in just one hour!

Key Points

  • Create a beautiful portfolio website using WordPress.
  • No coding experience needed—start from scratch.
  • Learn to add image posts, galleries, and contact pages.
  • Website is responsive and looks good on all devices.
  • Quick setup: domain registration, web hosting, and WordPress installation.

Learning Outcomes

  • Create a professional portfolio website tailored to your needs.
  • Easily add and manage image posts and galleries.
  • Set up essential pages like About Me and Contact.
  • Understand how to register a domain and host your site.
  • Gain confidence using WordPress for future projects.

About This Course

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

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!

  • 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

Instructor

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Hoku Ho

Instructor

Hoku Ho is a skilled instructor known for providing valuable insights and expert guidance to learners seeking to enhance their knowledge and skills.

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4.9 course rating
4K ratings
ui-avatar of Gabriela N
Gabriela N.
3.0
2 years ago

Good course, but now, the most part of the information are not reliable and also not free. I would say it's a good course for years 2010.

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ui-avatar of Lestari Saraswati
Lestari S.
4.0
2 years ago

The Get in Touch form is not working. How to fix it?

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ui-avatar of Adil Hasan
Adil H.
5.0
3 years ago

A good course with detailed explanations of how to build your own portfolio website.

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ui-avatar of Mela Astatira
Mela A.
5.0
3 years ago

Subtitles too small..sometimes I needed when listen video in silent

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ui-avatar of Maria Luisa Dayson
Maria L. D.
4.5
3 years ago

Detailed and clear explanations. I will be reviewing this back since I would like to start my portfolio online.

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ui-avatar of Eva Blomert
Eva B.
5.0
3 years ago

Great course. I enjoyed learning this free course on how to set up my Wordpress website for Graphic Designers. It was easy to understand and the teacher is very knowledgeable. Thank you, Blessed Be.

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ui-avatar of Phil Sage
Phil S.
5.0
4 years ago

A good well thought out course, very helpful

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ui-avatar of Ian Holden
Ian H.
4.5
4 years ago

Very good tutorial, thank you.

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ui-avatar of Ramya Nagu
Ramya N.
5.0
4 years ago

session was amazing. thank you for the course.

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ui-avatar of Pankaj Jain
Pankaj J.
5.0
4 years ago

Very simple and easy to understand

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