# Question about making a work portfolio

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-making-a-work-portfolio/461228>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 25, 2008, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-making-a-work-portfolio/461228 "2008-08-25T19:00:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-making-a-work-portfolio/461228/1 "2008-08-25T19:00:34Z")

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How do you handle making a portfolio of your work when you worked for a company and not yourself? I’m a web developer, so I can’t hand over code like you usually would for a job. Can I just present a list of websites that are currently live that I’ve worked on (with purty formatting, of course)? I’m not a backend developer, I’m more interested in showing the design implementations I’ve done, so they can still see code via View Source.

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**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-making-a-work-portfolio/461228/2 "2008-08-26T20:54:43Z")

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You could as long as they’re public. You could also contemplate working up samples that showcase techniques you’re particularly good at.