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Ship It Live · portfolio sprint
A portfolio that wins the work, live in 5 days.
Your work, presented like it matters, on your own domain — not a profile page on someone else's platform.
Quick answer
A custom portfolio website can be designed, built and live in 5 days for a fixed $700, covering a work gallery, individual project pages, an about section, contact and enquiry capture, with a CMS so you can add projects yourself. The main constraint is having your project material ready on day one.
The plan
Day one to day 5, written down.
You get this schedule before you commit, not after. If a phase slips, that is mine to absorb — the price and the date were agreed before anything started.
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Day 1
Positioning and structure
What you want to be hired for, which projects prove it, and the order they should appear in. A portfolio is an argument, not an archive.
- 2
Days 2–3
Design
Home and the project page — the two that do all the work — designed against your real images rather than placeholders.
- 3
Day 4
Build
Built responsive and fast, with your projects loaded into the CMS as it goes.
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Day 5
Launch
Domain connected, contact form tested, analytics on, and a walkthrough so you can add the next project yourself.
What $700 gets you
Everything needed to launch — nothing padding the invoice.
Who books this
Built for
Designers, developers, photographers and studios still sending PDFs
Freelancers whose only presence is a marketplace profile they do not own
Anyone whose work is better than the site currently representing it
Real situations
Five ways this shows up, and what actually fixes it.
Not hypothetical — the shape of the problem before someone books this sprint, and the specific part of the build that resolves it.
Situation 1
Still sending a PDF instead of a link
A freelancer or studio's primary way of sharing work is a PDF attachment, which looks dated compared to competitors with a real, browsable online presence.
A real portfolio site with individual case-study pages replaces the PDF, live on an owned domain in 5 days.
Situation 2
The only presence is a marketplace profile that isn't owned
A freelancer's work is only visible through a profile on a freelance marketplace, which they don't control and which disappears the moment they stop paying for the platform.
A portfolio on the freelancer's own domain, with a CMS to add projects themselves, replaces dependence on a rented profile page.
Situation 3
The work is better than the site currently representing it
A designer or developer's actual project quality has outgrown their current site, which was thrown together early on and never revisited.
A custom design built around the specific work — not a generic portfolio template — presents it the way it actually deserves.
Situation 4
Case studies exist in fragments, never assembled properly
A freelancer has project details, images and results scattered across old emails and folders, but has never sat down to structure them into real case studies.
Day one is spent on positioning and structure — which projects prove what, and in what order — turning fragments into a coherent argument for hiring them.
Situation 5
Wants to add new work without needing a developer each time
A previous portfolio required a developer for every update, so new projects went unposted for months at a time simply due to the friction involved.
A CMS included in the build lets new projects be added directly, with a walkthrough at handover so updates don't wait on anyone else.
The honest part
When 5 days is the wrong answer.
A fixed deadline only works when the scope genuinely fits inside it. These are the cases where I will tell you so rather than take the booking.
Portfolios where the case studies still need writing from scratch. I can structure and edit, but five days does not include authoring the content, and that is the usual reason these stretch.
Stores, client portals or logged-in areas, which are a different sprint entirely.
Large agency sites with many services and team pages — the 14-day website sprint suits those.
Inside the 5 days
- Custom design built around your work rather than a portfolio template
- Work gallery, plus individual project pages with real case-study structure
- About section written to position you, not just to list your history
- Contact form and enquiry capture, wired to your inbox
- A CMS so you add projects yourself without needing a developer
- Fast and responsive, because most people will open it on a phone
- SEO basics: titles, meta, structured data, sitemap
- Live on your domain, source code or project ownership yours
Quoted as one number before day one. A week running long is mine to absorb.
Outside the line
- Portfolios where the case studies still need writing from scratch. I can structure and edit, but five days does not include authoring the content, and that is the usual reason these stretch.
- Stores, client portals or logged-in areas, which are a different sprint entirely.
- Large agency sites with many services and team pages — the 14-day website sprint suits those.
Real work, sized and priced separately. You hear it before you book, not at handover.
Questions
Before you book
Yes, when your images, project details and bio are ready on day one. The delay on portfolio projects is almost never the build — it is the owner deciding which work to show and writing about it.
Other sprints
5 days from now, this could be live.
A 30-minute call decides whether the scope fits. If it doesn't, I'll tell you what would.