How to gain experience and portfolio for a layout designer?

Question

IT education

Typical skill set: Html, css, js + some knowledge of PHP
1) When trying to get a job as a coder, everyone requires work experience, but how do you get it? Work in web studios for free for experience?
2) Portfolio, walk around companies and also offer to make a website for free?

Answer 1

Go to companies?
Now there will be a small cry from the heart, so remove the children from the screen.
What companies do you mean? Studios or companies that have their own business?
If studios, then yes, you can go, you can offer, you can do. They will check for you, redo it or tell you how to do it right.
If the second option and you are thinking of starting right away to go to companies and make websites for business, then it is better not to do this without sufficient experience.
It has a bunch of arguments. First, you will waste time and learn nothing by yourself. External control is needed. Secondly, the sites you make (with a 90% chance, if you are not a prodigy) will be made with a bunch of mistakes), which will have to be edited either by you or another webmaster behind you. And in the end, you will get only hassle and hemorrhoids for the brain.
A lot of studios are ready to take juniors for training, delve into this direction.
UPD: And you can earn a portfolio on free templates.
https://all-psd.ru/site-templates/
We take from the first and typeset.

Answer 2

well make it up)