Design a Simple Portfolio Website Outline
5. Resumes, Cover Letters & Career Tools
⏱ 25 minutes min
📊 Intermediate
Objective
Plan the structure and content for a simple personal or professional portfolio website.
Materials Needed
- AI chat tool
- Examples of your work or projects to showcase
Step-by-Step Instructions
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Describe your field and the kind of work you want to showcase (design, writing, contracting, consulting).
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Prompt: 'Outline the pages and sections a simple portfolio website should have for this field, and what content goes on each.'
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Ask the AI to draft the homepage headline and About Me text.
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Discuss how a tool like Manus.ai could later build a working version of this site from the outline.
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Save the outline as a blueprint for a future project.
Instructor TipThis tutorial is a natural preview/teaser for the Automation & Advanced module later in the course.
TakeawayPlanning your content first makes actually building a website (with AI or a human developer) dramatically faster.
Tools Used
- ChatGPT
- Claude.ai
- Manus.ai