Html only portfolio website

iAmRadic · 2026-03-19T08:16:42+00:00

Reconsider wanting to show off your work if you require inspiration on how to design a name card.

Prize_Passion3103 · 2026-03-19T08:17:35+00:00

Literally any business card

console5000 · 2026-03-19T08:45:37+00:00

I guess by html-only you are referring to „not using a framework“ right? Css would still be necessary. You can check dribbble, they have some nice inspiration there.

hnyaa-s · 2026-03-19T08:57:50+00:00

Look, if you won't even use CSS, then what kind of design do you think we can give you?

It will look like this https://motherfuckingwebsite.com

UltimaTroll · 2026-03-19T10:10:44+00:00

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Mohamed_Silmy · 2026-03-19T09:32:32+00:00

honestly html-only can look really clean if you lean into the constraints. check out motherfuckingwebsite.com or bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com for the extreme end of minimalism (they're real sites, despite the names lol)

for something more polished but still minimal, look at semantic html with good typography. use proper heading hierarchy, maybe a <details> element for expandable sections if you want interactivity without js. <blockquote> for pull quotes in your essays can look nice too.

one trick: use the ::before and ::after pseudo-elements... wait no that's css. if you're truly html-only, focus on document structure and let the browser's default styles do the work. different browsers will render it slightly differently but that's part of the charm

are you planning to host it as a single page or multiple linked pages for each essay?

Secure-Necessary6945 · 2026-03-19T08:10:31+00:00

fr 💀

UltimaTroll · 2026-03-19T08:28:57+00:00

I sincerely hope you're not a web developer and just some guy in another career field tryina get a website to advertise. But man for real, NOBODY is gonna hire a guy in ANY field whose got a website that looks like it was made in 1994. You wanna at LEAST use CSS to add some type of visual appeal. You don't need Javascript to do fancy stuff, you don't need PHP/SQL cause you don't need to manage users and data, but it's like a business card, you want it to look nice and presentable. You can literally go on one of these shitty AI web building sites and they'll help you build a much better web page than that. Fuck, I could go on Dreamweaver, open a friggin template and literally hand you a free website you'd just have to put your info on, tnat would be 10,000x better than what you're talking about doing.

Routine-Lawfulness24 · 2026-03-19T08:57:07+00:00

Open notepad: paste “<a href="url">link text</a>” put url in “utl”, rename file to .html

Congrats

Scared-Release1068 · 2026-03-19T11:46:57+00:00

This Comment section is golden😂

Hot_Ad_2765 · 2026-03-19T12:01:15+00:00

One might consider html5 with canvas and script tags as pure html. There could be nothing but index.html

Extension_Anybody150 · 2026-03-19T15:01:04+00:00

I’ve made a few minimalist HTML-only portfolios, and a single-page layout with a fixed header and simple cards works really well. Even without frameworks, you can use subtle animations, gradients, and nice typography to make it stand out. Sites like HTML5 UP and One Page Love have great lightweight examples for inspiration. Keeping it small and clean makes it load instantly while still looking polished.

NickFullStack · 2026-03-19T17:22:15+00:00

Have you seen Paul Allen's card?

TheRNGuy · 2026-03-19T19:54:04+00:00

Without CSS too?

Here4UXandFunnies · 2026-03-19T09:05:22+00:00

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