Use these 1-Page templates to publish a FREE Canva or Notion site showcasing your freelance portfolio and services
Create your portfolio website in 90 minutes or less.
Already love Notion or Canva? Get my templates to create a 1-page website that you can publish for free and get your website done – fast.
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How it works:
Just make a copy of the Canva template or duplicate the Notion template to your workspace.
Make your edits with my checklist and video tutorials.
Hit “Publish” and you’re good to go!
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What’s included:
Canva Template
A professionally designed Canva Site template that you can easily customize to fit your brand.
Checklist
A complete list of everything you need to change on the site before you hit publish.
Notion Template
An easy to adjust Notion template that’s SEO friendly and has a built in blog!
Video Tutorials
A walkthrough video to make setup as easy as drag, drop, and done
Prompts
Writing about yourself can be so tricky. That’s why I’ve included prompts to help you write write your About section, services, and case studies. You can write them yourself or ask AI for help.
Copywriting Guidance
Copywriting guidance that speaks to your dream clients (even if you’re not a writer)
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Still stuck on your portfolio website?
You don’t need a perfect portfolio to start landing freelance clients.
You just need one that’s done.
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I see it all the time…
👋 Hi, I’m Rachel Meltzer (it rhymes with Seltzer) and I’ve helped over 2,300 freelancers!
Freelancers of every experience level get caught in perfection paralysis, obsessing over colors, fonts, and fancy copy for their portfolio site…
Meanwhile, their dream clients are out there hiring someone else.
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Here’s what real freelancers are saying about the templates:
“THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR CREATING THIS NOTION TEMPLATE BECAUSE IT HELPED ME GET IT DONE SO MUCH FASTER. MY PORTFOLIO IS FINALLY FINISHED AND I FEEL LIKE I COULD CRY FROM RELIEF!”
– Stephanie Self, Freelance Writer + Editor
“Finally, a site I can actually edit without fucking it up!!”
– Aaryn Belfer, Copyeditor & Freelance Writer
“I already like and know Canva so the fact that I can make my website in there (and not have to design it myself) is so relieving.”
– Sarah Collie, Freelance Digital Marketer
You’re not behind. You just need a shortcut.
Let’s stop letting “I don’t have a website yet” keep you from sending that pitch, following up on that lead, or applying for that dream gig.
Your freelance career deserves momentum. These templates will help you find it.
You can make free websites with Notion and Canva now! You can even add a custom domain if you want (you do have to pay for the domain itself - I got mine from SquareSpace but NameCheap is another great place to get one).
Anyway, I made a couple templates for portfolio websites!
Feel free to use them however you want - just make sure you update all the placeholder images so my face isn't on them!
Notion
Notion isn't as pretty but it's way easier to use than canva.
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Here's the checklist of things you should customize before hitting publish and shipping it out:
- all images (they all have my face rn → If you want to make them have shapes and cutouts like mine, I made these in Canva. Pick a shape, remove the background of the image of you, put it on top of the shape! Super simple. I made these in a 500x500 canvas)
- all text inside brackets (looks like this: [text])
- hyperlinks (currently there are NO hyperlinks in there, so make sure you hyperlink all the bold all caps text in the callouts (the little colored boxes) and the logos to your social media)
- logos (there are a bunch of spots where you can put your clients' logos under your about section)
- case study buttons (create a page in your notion that's public and published to the web, each should contain 1 case study, link that page to the case study buttons that say "read more" → feel free to change the color of these or the icon!)
- the blog!! (under "more of my work" → delete all the sample pieces and tags and pop in your own pieces and tags!!)
- cover (the cover image is currently just a placeholder "logo" that I made to create the template - replace it with whatever you want! An image or something you make in canva!)
Canva
Canva is super pretty and not super hard to use. BUT if you want to use Canva, your portfolio pieces need to be hosted on another site.
If you don't have any client work to link to yet, you can publish your samples on LinkedIn as articles and then link those (or wherever you want! You could even pair it with this blog template on Notion).
Here's the Canva Template:
Canva Portfolio Website Template
Here's the checklist of things you should customize before hitting publish and shipping it out:
- all images (they all have my face rn → If you want to make them have shapes and cutouts like mine, I made these in Canva. Pick a shape, remove the background of the image of you, put it on top of the shape! Super simple. I made these in a 500x500 canvas)
- all text inside brackets (looks like this: [text])
- hyperlinks (currently there are NO hyperlinks in there, so make sure you hyperlink all the buttons, social media logos, and images in the portfolio sections)
- logos (there are a bunch of spots where you can put your clients' logos in the hero section)
- featured work & more of my work (link to individual articles or link to pieces in a Notion hosted blog)