Host it third party via bluehost or green geeks on Wordpress.org, then pick your favourite builder. It’s cheaper than webflow and you can use your own domain name. In the meantime, it’s worth a shot to set it up and apply with free webflow. I’ve seen junior level designers get jobs with a .webflow in their domain name (recently,) though granted - they had a ton of UX research experience. For senior designers or higher, probably wouldn’t be ideal. More on reddit.com

Absolutely doable. Just create a cms with all your projects and add them to the page where you will add a drawer or popup to the cms item. Simple and clean. The free plan should suit your needs. Are these 40 web projects??? More on reddit.com

Yeah, I am also in a dilemma because the free plan allows you to create like 2 pages and I wonder how people create their portfolios considering a portfolio can have up to 3-5 pages More on reddit.com

Hey Juma, I'm also Kenyan so here's the 3rd world game plan. First of all, everyones right. Use webflow for free and get your client to pay for your workspace. Also, Wordpress would be better for Kenyan clients but in case you want to stick to Webflow, here're a few tricks. Most employers and clients will want to see 3-4 examples so get 3 gmail accounts and make 3 webflow accounts. Each free account can allow up to two sites each so that's 6 sites at your disposal. Start learning on Webflow University with the free sites and get the fundamentals down. When you are feeling ready to start working on projects, make projects on the other accounts and leave the main one to hold your portfolio and a future client project. You'll realize that the free sites cannot go beyond 2 pages (eg you get just home and about unless you buy a plan) but you can get around this by cloning templates from an Agency called Finsweet that has around 8-9 pages. This may or may not make sense right now but it will come handy later. You can do some pretty cool work with just native webflow and no custom code on the free plan, I made this site on the free plan with the strategy above. 2.5 Make your portfolio website and link all those sites across your different accounts. Nobody can tell/cares 3. At some point, since Webflow cannot do everything, you will need to supplement with some custom code, so while you learn webflow I'd reccomend learning basic html, css and JS as well. I personally haven't heard python mentioned in the Webflow environment . I reccomend The Odin Project as it is what I currently use. In order to write code in Webflow you'll have to pay for a plan. Practice your custom code outside Webflow before you can pay for your webflow account/when looking for clients. 4. When you get your first client, depending on what you charge (I wouldn't go below Ksh 25k), use that money to pay for the workspace plan with 10 sites on your main webflow account (remember you had 3) for a month. *Build the client website first* and then pay for the workspace plan to export the site and host it somewhere cheaper. Most Kenyans wont be ok hosting on Webflow. Now that you have your workspace, use those 30 days to transfer all the projects from your other accounts into your paid account and add all the custom code you have been learning and want to show off, if any. Transfer all those sites back to your other accounts before your subscription is over as only two sites will be accessible after. 6. Rinse and repeat until you get a steady stream of clients to pay for your expensive webflow habit. Again, if you just want to just work with Kenyan clients I'd probably go for wordpress. It's the standard. Webflow would be more suitable if you wanted to work with international clients and agencies. Webflow will be more "work" and you have to game the system a few times in the beginning. Whatever you do, don't stagnate during your learning phase because you can't afford a plan at whatever time. Just find other things to do or a workaround and implement it when you can pay. More on reddit.com