It is common to see designer portfolio websites as a way to showcase their work. Developer wise, there isn’t that many examples probably due to the nature of the work, especially for a non front end developer. However, a portfolio website is an essential way for a developer to generate leads for his freelance work. If you are a developer in need of some ideas on creating a portfolio website, here are some inspirations that you can draw reference from. If you are a developer who already has a website, you can post it in the comments for the rest to see.

 

#1: Adhamdannaway.com

A nice clean design with a heavy dose of personality. Adam’s is both a front end developer as well as UI designer who is obvious from the creativity shown by his own website.

 

#2: Danny.fm

Another clean and minimlist design that you can easily create for yourself.  An image always helps and a listing of your skills in a beautiful layout can help a lot in convincing future clients that you will be a great person to work with.

 

 #3: Clark Nelson

I like the listing design of the website. It actually looks like some command line editor which is very suitable for a developer. The information given is clear and there are links to his projects. Simple but effective.

 

#4: Danielfischer.com

I don’t think you can get more basic than this. However despite the bare minimal look, it still works very well as a portfolio website for a developer.

 

#5: Jonas Duri

Something colorful for a change. This is a ghost theme being worked on by Jonas that is meant to serve as a portfolio website for developer.

 

#6: Slawson.org

A rather unique way of designing a portfolio website. The whole look uses an App interface design which is rather different from what the rest are usually doing.

 

#7: Jamie Barton

A nice clean look that says exactly what kind of development services are being offered.

 

#8: Jaeho Lee

An interesting idea of using the text editor as a UI to showcase the skills that the developer has. Unfortunately, I am not sure it is as easy to read for someone who has never work with a text editor before.

 

#9: Matt Sisto

Another very bare minimal design for a developer portfolio website.  It is great for those of you who are not so well verse in color scheme selection.