What should a layout designer make up a portfolio of?

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Hello. I'm new to layout. I have a few questions about the layout designer's portfolio. I don't understand how to make it up. Take free layouts from the Internet? And when I post them, will they be able to sue me for copyright infringement? Next, where to post them? Build a portfolio site with all your projects? And in order for the customer to be able to view my work, I need to put each of my sites on hosting and pay for the domain, or there is some other solution. I watched a bunch of videos about the layout designer's portfolio, but did not find specific answers. In general, I'm confused. And I felt sad (I really want to do this, it’s really interesting for me, but at such moments I want to quit everything, ahah. In short, I’m sorry for the extra information and for perhaps stupid questions for you, but I really don’t understand. I would be grateful,

Answer 1

If you don’t have real work done, then take layouts on the Internet, typeset and put them in your portfolio. You show the code you wrote and its result, not someone else's layout. In extreme cases, you can add in the footer of the layout that it was taken from somewhere and drawn by something.
If you don’t want to spend money on your own domain (560r/year in the ru zone), you can use github pages to demonstrate the layout. Triple bonus - free, you can see the result, you can see the code.
If 560 r / year is not a pity, you can also purchase a domain, make your own website, place a portfolio, resume on it, and keep a developer's blog.

Answer 2

Even if you do everything, I doubt that you will take an order, the share of freelance is usually won by old people with many years of experience and a huge portfolio, the second point is that there are few orders for clean layout, so you can immediately start eternal study of any X ... no. Like jquery, bootstrap, WordPress, how to learn it will take a lot of time), and you will already have to delve into js, ​​then vue, react. In general, this place is a mess to be honest. The paradox is that it seems that a beginner can go there, but in the end, in order to take a (penny) order there again, you need to have a serious base and stand out from a bunch of other portfolios. But when you have this base and a distinctive portfolio, then you no longer want to work for food and it’s more logical to go get a job where you will have a certain stack and don’t have to break your head what else to teach me further.