Quick answer
Keep the work, rethink the presentation. Choose projects that match the jobs or clients you want, separate artwork from explanatory text, explain your individual contribution, and publish on a site with clear navigation and contact options. Adobe Portfolio supports importing published Behance projects; treat this as a specific integration, not an automatic website export for any platform. [3]
1. Choose your audience before choosing projects
Write one sentence describing the opportunity you want. For example: a product-design role in Bengaluru, remote UI/UX work from Pune, or branding projects for Indian food businesses. Use that sentence to decide what belongs on the homepage.
For a junior UI/UX portfolio, start with two or three substantial case studies rather than publishing everything. UXfolio recommends this starting range and emphasises quality over quantity. [2] For graphic design, choose a focused selection that demonstrates the services you actually want to sell.
Audit each Behance project against these questions:
- Relevance: Does it match your target role, industry or service?
- Ownership: Can you explain exactly what you contributed?
- Depth: Can you show decisions, not just finished mockups?
- Permission: Are you allowed to publish the work and supporting material?
- Readiness: Do you have usable assets and enough context?
Label student assignments, self-initiated redesigns and concept projects clearly. Do not present an unsolicited redesign as commissioned client work.
2. Choose between Adobe Portfolio import and a manual rebuild
Route A: Import into Adobe Portfolio
Behance’s official guidance says Adobe Portfolio can import projects published on your Behance profile. It also states that Behance Pro includes Adobe Portfolio access and supports connecting your own domain. Check your account’s current access before buying another subscription. [3] [7]
- Choose a portfolio theme and import one selected project first.
- Review its image order, captions, headings and mobile layout.
- Rewrite the introduction and add missing role, decision and outcome sections.
- Import the remaining shortlisted projects and organise your navigation.
Importing is not editorial migration. Do not assume imported artwork becomes readable webpage text or that every subsequent edit will behave as expected. Test the update workflow before relying on it.
Route B: Rebuild in another builder or a custom site
Plan to transfer your own images and copy manually unless your chosen platform documents a supported integration. Create one reusable project-page layout, complete a pilot case study, then duplicate the structure for the rest.
Choose this route when the required layout, interactions or enquiry workflow are better served elsewhere. An embedded Behance presentation should not substitute for a self-contained case study.
3. Prepare a migration folder for each project
Before opening the website editor, gather:
- The original design files and separate artwork exports.
- A plain-text document containing headings, explanations and captions.
- A factual summary: brief, audience, role, collaborators, constraints and status.
- Evidence you can publish, such as approved research excerpts or final deliverables.
- A cover image and a shortlist of supporting visuals.
If your Behance project is one tall image, return to the source file where possible. Export meaningful sections separately and retype embedded explanations as webpage text. If you must transcribe from an image, proofread names, numbers and labels.
Remove confidential details before uploading. Where permission is unclear, ask for approval or leave the material out.
4. Convert visual presentations into readable case studies
UXfolio describes visual-first Behance projects as a starting point that needs additional context for a UX case study. [2] Keep the strongest visuals, but build a narrative around what you were solving, what you did and why.
Before-and-after project layouts
These are illustrative structures, not descriptions of real client work or measured results.
| Project | Before: image-heavy presentation | After: website case study |
|---|---|---|
| UI/UX: appointment-booking concept | Decorative cover → tool logos → persona poster → tiny wireframes → long strip of final screens. | Project summary and concept label → role and constraints → booking problem → selected evidence → key flow decisions → readable screen comparisons → validation status and next steps. |
| Graphic design: bilingual food-brand concept | Large logo reveal → colour swatches → repeated packaging mockups → closing thank-you image. | Brief and intended audience → personal contribution → identity rationale → typography and language hierarchy → flat artwork plus selected mockups → deliverables and production status. |
Use a repeatable writing structure
- Summary: Explain the project and its status in a short paragraph.
- Brief: Identify the audience, problem and relevant constraints.
- My contribution: Separate your responsibilities from the team’s work.
- Decisions: Show a few meaningful choices, supporting evidence and trade-offs.
- Solution: Pair selected visuals with captions explaining what matters.
- Outcome and reflection: State what happened, what remains unknown and what you would improve.
For UI/UX, connect screens to decisions rather than displaying an unexplained process diagram. For graphic design, explain hierarchy, typography, visual direction and applications without forcing the project into a UX research template.
Make individual contributions unmistakable
Illustrative role copy, to adapt only if accurate: My contribution: I mapped the booking flow, created wireframes and designed the interface. A teammate conducted interviews; the developer implemented the approved screens. I contributed to research synthesis but did not lead recruitment.
For branding, distinguish identity design, illustration, copywriting, photography and mockup assets. Credit collaborators and third-party assets appropriately.
If you have no verified results, say so. Explain whether the work was delivered, tested, launched or remained a concept. Do not turn a design intention into a business outcome. UXfolio explicitly notes that narrative and rationale can matter more than raw numbers. [2]
5. Optimise images for mobile reading
Build for someone opening your link on a phone, not just viewing it on your design monitor. Use this workflow for every project:
- Split long boards: Export individual screens, diagrams or artwork groups instead of uploading the entire Behance strip.
- Use real text: Keep headings, explanations and essential findings outside images.
- Crop intentionally: Show a readable detail when the full composition makes important elements too small.
- Resize and compress: Export near the intended display size. Try WebP or AVIF where supported, and compare compressed versions for legibility.
- Check design fidelity: Inspect gradients, fine type, packaging details and interface labels after compression.
- Use loading controls: Where available, enable responsive image sizing and lazy loading for images further down the page.
- Add useful alternatives: Write descriptive alt text and explain important visual evidence in nearby text.
For an interface, consider showing the complete screen followed by a close-up of the decision being discussed. For packaging, pair a mockup with readable flat artwork rather than repeating similar angled renders.
Test on your own phone over mobile data. Check whether the opening content appears promptly, captions remain readable without zooming, and galleries or animations obstruct scrolling. Simplify anything that fails that test.
6. Build a homepage that leads to hiring or enquiries
Use straightforward navigation: Work, About and Contact, with a CV link if you are seeking employment. Behance’s website-building guidance likewise recommends keeping navigation focused on work, an about page and contact information. [3]
Your homepage should identify your discipline, location or working arrangement, and the type of opportunity you want. Illustrative copy: UI/UX designer based in Pune, open to product-design roles and remote freelance projects. Replace every detail with your actual situation.
Give each project card a useful title, project type and short context line. Avoid a grid of unexplained thumbnails.
| Your goal | Primary action | Useful supporting details |
|---|---|---|
| Employment | View CV or email about a role | Target discipline, city, remote or relocation preference, and accurate availability. |
| Freelance work | Discuss a project or enquire on WhatsApp | Services, relevant examples, project enquiry form and working timezone where useful. |
Set up WhatsApp without making it the only option
Use a number you are comfortable making public. Create a WhatsApp chat link for it, connect that link to a clearly labelled button, and test the destination and message on both phone and desktop. Display the number with the +91 country code where appropriate.
Keep email available too. For enquiries, ask for the service needed, project scope, deadline and indicative budget in INR or the client’s preferred currency. Do not make a recruiter complete a lengthy freelance brief to contact you.
Add a relevant contact action at the end of every case study, not only in the site footer.
7. Connect your domain and check the whole journey
Register or retain the domain in an account you control. Follow your website platform’s current connection instructions rather than copying old DNS values from a tutorial.
Adobe Portfolio’s domain guidance explains that DNS changes must be made through the DNS provider, outside Portfolio’s account settings. [1] Use current instructions for the specific records required.
Give each project a descriptive page title and URL. Check the secure site address, navigation, CV download, image loading, email links and form delivery. Send a real test enquiry and confirm that it reaches you.
Keep Behance as another place to discover your work. If you use Behance Pro, its custom profile button can link to your external portfolio. [7]
8. DIY versus done-for-you: compare the actual work
Choose based on your content readiness, comfort with website tools and willingness to maintain the site—not just the appearance of a template.
| Consideration | DIY | Done-for-you |
|---|---|---|
| Content | You curate, rewrite and organise each project. | Ask whether case-study editing is included or whether you must supply finished copy. |
| Design and build | You configure layouts, images, mobile behaviour and contact options. | Specify required pages and functionality before approving the scope. |
| Costs | Check platform, domain, template and renewal charges. | Request an itemised quote in INR, including applicable taxes and recurring costs. |
| Ownership | Keep your own accounts and asset backups. | Require agreed access to the domain, site editor and project assets. |
| Maintenance | You handle new projects and broken links. | Clarify handover, revision limits, support and future update charges. |
A sensible middle path is to finish one case study yourself, then get help turning it into a reusable website layout. Even with a done-for-you service, you must verify your contribution, permissions and outcome claims.
Behance-to-website migration checklist
- Define the target job or client.
- Shortlist relevant projects and confirm publication permissions.
- Collect original assets, editable copy and collaborator credits.
- Label concepts, student work and project status honestly.
- Build and test one complete case study first.
- Separate explanatory text from images.
- Explain individual responsibilities and key decisions.
- Compress visuals and check them on a phone.
- Add a clear homepage introduction and contact actions.
- Test the CV, WhatsApp link, email and enquiry form.
- Connect the domain and check every project URL.
- Update your CV and professional profiles with the website link.
- Keep backups and decide how future updates will be handled.
If you would rather get help with the build, PaidPortfolio creates custom and template portfolio websites for Indian professionals. Explore a custom portfolio or browse templates after preparing your project shortlist and case-study copy. The website should make your work easier to understand—not simply reproduce your Behance feed.