7 Online Portfolio Builders for Writers

By Sunaina Agarwal / 12 Feb, 2021

In the world of content writing, something new is coming to the table, every day, but what makes you stand out is how you manifest and showcase your skills, talent, and knowledge with the online portfolio's help.

In such a case, an online portfolio helps you to make your professional image and connect you with like-minded people. How do we that?

Let's talk about the seven best platforms to assist you in switching and creating your brand. Let's get started:

1. Wix:

Wix is most popular amongst content writers because of its user-friendly and easily customizable drag-and-drop feature. This platform gives you so many free templates to access and modify according to your needs. You can easily optimize your websites for mobile devices and easily spice them up with the Wix App Market's numerous apps.

2. Contently:

Easy to start! Yes, you heard this right, it takes only 15minute to start. Contently provides the best content strategy and marketing platform to help brands generate high-performing content that builds awareness and generates leads. This platform showcases all the articles and content that goes under your name in one place. As a result, it makes your portfolio look more organized and helpful for finding your writing style at your unique profile URL.

3Simple Site: 

As the name suggests, this platform is quite simple to access, and you can start with a mere click and select the features without any excellent technical skills. If you are a writer or an author, this platform should be your go-to thing because it is mobile-friendly, and you can share your content easily on social media.

4. WordPress:

WordPress is the patriarch of content management platforms. While not explicitly geared towards making online portfolios, WordPress's comfort is that you can do pretty much anything you want with it. All you need to do is to search Google for "WordPress portfolio themes," and you'll have everything you could ask!

WordPress also features a portfolio splash page making it an excellent platform for people who want lots of choices and total CSS control on their plate.

5. Squarespace:

Squarespace is almost similar to WordPress in terms of being a non-portfolio-specific platform. In contrast to WordPress, Squarespace's simple drag-and-drop nature is its biggest drawcard. It makes it surprisingly simple and straightforward to use. Squarespace also provides specialized portfolio templates to choose from to give your portfolio a professional-looking.

6. Journo portfolio:

Writing great content, but if it's unmanaged, the readers will show less interest no matter how informative your content would be. But journo portfolio helps you to organize your content in blocks to help the readers to access it.

It also features multiple themes and a library of images to use; Journo Portfolio also grants flexible editing options so you can customize your portfolio to the best.

 7. Clippings.me:

In the portfolio world, every platform is unique in its way, but Clippings.me not only provides you a free place to showcase your content but at the same time it equips you with some professional tools to help you build a great portfolio. 

These tools guide the journalist and copywriters on how to showcase and grow their business. You can quickly start by setting up your profile with a bio and then upload and organize your articles (or 'clippings') under different headings.

Now that you've got lots of platforms to choose from, which site would you use for your freelance writing portfolio? 

Start today to stand out!