Updated Oct 6, 2026 ## How do I share my portfolio as one link? Upload your portfolio, a PDF, a set of images, or a ZIP of a built site, and you get one clean address to put in your bio, on your CV and on a card. It opens in any browser with no account and no download, you can see when it has been opened, and you can replace the work behind it later without the link ever changing. ### PDF, image, or HTML, your call A PDF looks identical on every machine, an image is great for one strong visual piece, and a self-contained HTML page renders live behind your link with animations and fonts intact. All three open straight in the browser. ### Update your work, keep the link Replace the file behind an existing link and keep the same address. The CV you sent last month, the QR on cards you already printed, the link in your LinkedIn intro, all point at your latest work automatically. ### See if people are actually opening it Every portfolio link carries a view counter, so you can tell 'nobody's looking' from 'they looked and passed'. On any plan, analytics break opens down by device and country, honest aggregate data, not who each viewer was. ### Or host the whole site, not just a PDF If your portfolio is a built website, on Pro you can upload a ZIP of your site or your framework's dist folder and it goes live on its own subdomain with automatic SSL, a real multi-page site with working internal links. [Host a static website](https://linkinseconds.com/host-static-website) ### What a portfolio link does not do No responsive magic on your file. The browser shows your file as-is, so a fixed-width HTML page or a wide landscape PDF can still feel cramped on a phone. Design responsively or export a portrait-friendly PDF. No external assets in HTML. Only the one page is uploaded, so inline your CSS and JS or reference assets by full URL. Anything pointing at a missing local file will not load. View-only is not copy protection. It deters casual saving and hides the download button, but a determined viewer can still screenshot. For NDA or sensitive client work, the password is the real gate. ## How it works - 1 ### Pick the file that shows your work best Export your portfolio as a single PDF (great for a case-study deck or a designer's book), a high-resolution image (one strong piece or a contact-sheet collage), or a self-contained HTML page if you hand-built one. Aim for a tight edit, 6 to 12 of your strongest pieces beats a sprawling archive that makes a hiring manager scroll. - 2 ### Upload it and get your link Drop the file on the upload card, sign in free with Google, one tap, no form, and you get a clean public link. Free covers files up to 250 MB; Pro raises it to 500 MB. On any plan you can set a custom name so the link reads like your actual name instead of random characters. - 3 ### Put the link everywhere people find you Test it on your phone first, then paste it into the 'portfolio' field on job applications, your LinkedIn intro, your email signature, and your Instagram or Behance bio, and download the QR code to print on a business card or booth sign. One link means you only ever update one place. ## PDF portfolios and case-study decks A PDF is the safest format for a portfolio you send to hiring managers: it looks identical on every machine and won't reflow like a web page can. Export at a sensible resolution (large enough that mockups are crisp, small enough to stay under your plan's size limit), keep it to a landscape layout if it's a deck, and lead with your two strongest projects, many reviewers only open the first couple of pages. Your link shows the PDF in a clean in-browser viewer with page navigation, so nobody has to download anything to flip through your work. For a heavier book with lots of full-bleed imagery, watch the file size and compress images before exporting. ## Image portfolios for photographers and illustrators If your work is visual, sometimes the best portfolio is a single beautiful image, a hero shot, a stitched contact sheet, or a poster-style layout of your range. Upload a PNG or JPG and the link opens to the full image, scaled to fit whatever screen it lands on, with no compression from a chat app in the way. This is ideal for a quick 'here's my style' reply in a DM or an email, or a QR code on a print at a gallery or market stall. For a fuller set, a multi-page PDF or a bundled bucket keeps everything under one link instead of dumping ten separate files on someone. ## HTML portfolios you built yourself Built your own portfolio page with HTML, CSS, and a bit of JavaScript? Upload the single self-contained .html file and it renders live behind your link, animations, custom fonts, and layout intact, inside a sandboxed frame, so it's a genuine web page and not a flat screenshot. This is the fastest way for a front-end developer or design-engineer to show craft without buying a domain or setting up hosting. Keep everything in one file (inline your CSS and JS, or reference assets by full URL) since only that one page is uploaded; anything that points at a missing local file won't load. ## Looks right on the phone in a recruiter's hand Most portfolio links are opened on a phone, during a commute, between meetings, in the ten seconds before someone decides whether to reply. Your link opens directly in whatever browser the viewer already has, with nothing to install and no 'download to view' friction that makes people bounce. That said, the browser shows your file as-is: a fixed-width HTML page or a wide landscape PDF can still feel cramped on a small screen. The fix is on your side, design responsively or export a portrait-friendly PDF, but the delivery itself never adds an app wall or a login between your work and the person reviewing it. ## Keep a client portfolio private when you need to Sometimes a portfolio piece is under NDA, or you only want a specific studio to see certain client work. On any plan you can password-protect a link and share the password separately, set an expiry date so a link for one application quietly stops working later, or make it view-only to hide the download button. View-only is honest about its limits, it deters casual saving and keeps the emphasis on viewing in-browser, but it can't stop a determined viewer from screenshotting, so treat it as a nudge, not true DRM. For genuinely sensitive work, the password is the real gate. ## Or host the whole site, not just a PDF If your portfolio is a built website rather than a document, you do not have to flatten it. Static-site hosting is live here on Pro: upload a ZIP of your site, plain HTML and CSS, or the dist folder your framework produced, and it goes live on its own subdomain with automatic SSL, as a real multi-page site with working internal links. For designers and front-end developers this is usually the better answer. A hosted site keeps your hover states, your type, your case-study navigation and your carefully chosen scroll, all the things a PDF export quietly destroys. It is also the honest choice when your portfolio IS the code. 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