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A hiring manager wants to see what you actually shipped, not read source code cold. Link 2 to 4 real projects, ideally live sites, with a line on what you built and what you used. If your best work is client work you can’t link publicly, describe it specifically enough (traffic, stack, what changed) that it reads as real rather than a title with no detail.
WordPress, Webflow, Shopify, a headless CMS, a custom framework: these are different jobs to a hiring manager, and "content management" tells them nothing. If a posting names a specific platform you have used, use its exact name. Agencies in particular are often hiring for one platform, not general web skill.
A load time that dropped, a Lighthouse or Core Web Vitals score that improved, a WCAG compliance level reached: these are concrete, verifiable, and specific to front-end work in a way "built responsive websites" is not. If you have never measured one, running your own recent project through Lighthouse before you write your resume takes ten minutes.
Fifteen one-line client names reads as noise. Group similar engagements ("Built and launched 12 small business websites in WordPress and Webflow over two years") and pull out one or two specific, larger projects as their own bullet. This is one of the few fields where consolidating work actually makes the resume stronger, not thinner.
One page for anyone under about eight years of experience. Past that, two pages is reasonable once you are leading a team or have shipped several distinct large projects that a single page would flatten into one line each.
Yes, both if you have them. Put the portfolio link near your contact information at the top, since it is the fastest way for someone to judge your actual work. Link GitHub too, but keep your best or most recent repos pinned so it does not require digging.
Treat it like a job: "Freelance Web Developer, 2021 to 2023," with bullets describing the kind of work and, where you can, a rough count ("built 20+ sites for small businesses and nonprofits"). You do not need to name every client, especially under an NDA, but naming a recognizable one or two adds credibility.
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