Portfolio websites

What it is

A site built around the work itself: project case studies, image and video grids, and a content model its owner edits without touching code.

Why businesses need it

A portfolio is read in a few seconds and judged on the strongest piece it shows. When adding a project means asking a developer, the site goes stale and the best work never appears.

What MIWEBX delivers

• Photographer, designer, artist and small-studio portfolio builds
• Project case studies: brief, process, outcome and the image set behind them
• Client and press galleries with access the owner controls
• About, CV and contact pages written around one named person
• Migration off a site-builder or a template that has filled up

Core features

• Media grids with lazy loading, blurred previews and original-resolution downloads
• Caption, credit and technical fields stored per image
• One case-study structure reused across every project
• Draft, hidden and scheduled states for a project
• Custom domain, email routing and social preview cards per project
• Exhibitions, awards and press mentions as their own content type

Technical capabilities

• Source images processed at build time into sized variants with a srcset per breakpoint
• Original files kept out of the web root and served through expiring signed links
• Aspect ratios reserved before media loads, so scroll never jumps
• Galleries gated by a short-lived token instead of a permanent second account
• Content model typed so a project cannot publish without a cover and a caption
• Keyboard, screen-reader and reduced-motion paths on every grid and lightbox
• Structured data for the person, their creative works and the site's own pages

How we build it

• Look at the existing work and the current site, and agree what the portfolio has to prove
• Model the content first: project, image, exhibition and press fields
• Design one case study and one grid, then build the rest from those two
• Load the owner's real media and check the whole site on a phone with it
• Move the domain, hand over editing access, and publish a project with them present
• Review speed and indexation after launch and tune the media pipeline against it

Technology stack

• Next.js
• React
• TypeScript
• Tailwind CSS
• GSAP
• Figma
• Cloudflare
• Vite

What you receive

• Source repository with the image pipeline and content model documented
• Editing access, with the first projects loaded by the owner rather than by us
• Case-study and grid templates ready for the next project
• Domain, DNS and hosting accounts held in the owner's name
• A written guide for publishing a project, including image sizing rules

Business benefits

• Finished work goes live the day it is finished
• The strongest project decides what a visitor sees, not the most recent upload
• Client galleries shared from the same site instead of a second tool
• The owner keeps the portfolio current without a developer