Building a Portfolio Website From Scratch

Here is the full, multi-part guide to creating and hosting a professional portfolio website with your own custom email.

Articles in This Series

Part 1: Your Digital Identity, A Practical Guide to Your First Domain

This article is the very first in a complete, multi-part guide I'm putting together. In this guide you will learn about the absolute necessary things you need to know about your web address also known as the domain.

Part 2: Lab Setup for WebPage Creation and Local Testing

We’re going to assemble a professional-grade "WebPage creation" and "testing" laboratory using the powerful resources that major companies use, all for free.

Part 3: From Title to Shelf! Connecting Your Registrar to AWS with Route 53

This guide covers the essential step of making your website live. Learn how to use Amazon Route 53 to connect the domain name you purchased from your registrar to your web hosting on AWS.

Part 4: Going online! Hosting Your Static Website on Amazon S3

This guide covers the essential step of getting our website live. Learn how to use Amazon S3 to host your static website, taking our local files and making them publicly accessible on the internet.

Part 5: The Pro Upgrade for the static website with CloudFront and HTTPS 🔒

In this article we'll take our basic static website on S3 and give it a professional upgrade, making it faster with Amazon CloudFront and secure with a free SSL certificate.