The Canva route

If a file called index.html is one step further than you want to go, this is the other way, and it is a legitimate one.

Nothing in this guide requires you to touch a file. Section 2's whole design was to make that step small, but small isn't zero, and some people would rather do their thinking somewhere with a visual editor in front of them.

1What changes and what doesn't

Doesn't change: the five answers. Name, niche, one line, three pieces, three words. That's the content of a portfolio regardless of what builds it, and it's the part that took thought.

Does change: you pick the design instead of the niche picking it, and you publish from inside Canva rather than from a host.

Also changes, honestly: you don't get the file. What you get is a site inside somebody's product, on their terms — which is fine, and worth knowing. Section 1's the file is yours claim is one of the real advantages of the primary path, and this route trades it away for a visual editor.

2How to do it

1. Start from a portfolio template rather than a blank page. You're not designing; you're filling.
2. Put your one line at the top. Not a tagline, not "welcome" — the same sentence you'd have given the Skill. It's the first thing a brand reads either way.
3. Three pieces, three links. Same rule as the primary path: what you actually have, spec labelled as spec.
4. Your three voice words somewhere small. They're tone, not a headline.
5. Publish, and copy the address.

Keep it to one page. The temptation with a visual editor is to add sections because sections are easy to add. A brand looking at your portfolio is answering one question — can this person make the thing — and every extra section is between them and the answer.

3Which route to pick

Neither is the serious one. A brand looking at your work does not know or care what built the page, and there is no version of this where the tooling is the thing being judged.

The point is having something to send a brand, not which tool made it.

4The thing that's identical either way

What goes on it. Three real pieces, honestly labelled, with a specific line about what you do.

Module 4 §3 is the section that matters here, not this one. A beautifully designed portfolio of invented case studies is worse than a plain one with three real drafts on it — and that judgement is entirely independent of whether you went the file route or the visual one.