What better way to get started with the front-end than creating your own portfolio? This first Zipline will have you build up your portfolio website from scratch. I’m going to go dead basic on this, no external tools or bundling bonanza. Just HTML, CSS, JS and a few few libraries.

Building stuff, anything really, as vague as it may seem, is the best way to keep your skills sharp. For this particular project, we’re asked to fulfill the following user stories:

• As a user, I can access all of the portfolio webpage’s content just by scrolling.
• As a user, I can click different buttons that will take me to the portfolio creator’s different social media pages.
• As a user, I can see thumbnail images of different projects the portfolio creator has built (if you haven’t built any websites before, use placeholders.)
• Bonus: As a user, I navigate to different sections of the webpage by clicking buttons in the navigation.

Now, get scared. I won’t be using Bootstrap or jQuery at all. For heavens sake, it’s a static, single page site. It has two advantages, it’s easy to navigate, and it is fast. Having to include Bootstrap and jQuery will just slow it down and spoil you (feel free to use them though 🙂 ).