Resume website
To build a resume website, write your career history once, publish it as a live page anyone can open in a browser, and export the same content as a PDF for applications. Folio renders both from a single record: the site people read and the ATS-scored PDF or DOCX a recruiter files, so fixing a date in one fixes it in the other. Publishing and exporting cost nothing, and a domain of your own like yourname.com is the part that needs Pro at $9 a month.
Build your resume website. Keep the PDF free.
Publishing is free at portfolio.wrxstack.com/yourname, and the PDF and DOCX download carries no watermark and no paid tier. Free also means a Made with Folio line on the page, 10 AI generations a month, and zero custom domains, so yourname.com is the one thing Pro buys you at $9.
The how-to
No blank canvas, no theme shopping, no hand-editing HTML, and no second file to keep in sync afterward.
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Paste your existing resume text, or type your roles, dates, and bullets straight in. This is the only place your content lives. There is no LinkedIn connect button anywhere in Folio, so if your history sits on LinkedIn, copy the text across and paste it.
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Folio structures what you pasted into sections: experience, education, skills, projects, contact. The first draft is a starting point, not a verdict. Every line stays editable, and nothing is published until you say so.
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Choose a design for the public page. Free gives you the core designs, and the full 60-theme gallery comes with Pro. Your writing is stored separately from the look, so changing the design never means retyping a word.
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The same content renders as a print resume. Folio scores it 0 to 100 across 7 weighted criteria before you download, and the PDF and DOCX export is free with no watermark. Every resume layout is free too, not just the plain one.
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Your site goes live at portfolio.wrxstack.com/yourname on the free plan, with a Made with Folio line at the bottom. Put that URL on the resume itself. To publish at yourname.com instead, Pro is $9 a month, because Free includes 0 custom domains.
The idea
Most people end up maintaining two things. There is the site, built in Wix or Squarespace or from a Bootstrap template, and then there is the PDF, built somewhere else entirely and attached to the site as a download. The day you change jobs you have to remember to update both. Usually you update the PDF, because that is what employers ask for, and the site quietly goes stale. Six months later the page that ranks for your name is describing a job you left.
Folio is built so that cannot happen. Under the hood the resume is a print-oriented projection of the same view model that renders your public page, and the document record stores only which template and theme you picked. It stores no content of its own. There is nothing to keep in sync, because there is only one thing.
That is the practical case for a resume website over a resume and a website. You get a URL you can say out loud in an interview, and a file you can attach to an application, and the two of them agree, permanently, without you doing anything to make them agree.
What you get
A resume website is not a design exercise. It has to survive a recruiter, an applicant tracking system, and your own laziness six months from now.
Export
The PDF and DOCX export is completely open on the free plan. No watermark, no upgrade prompt at the download button, no locked layout. Most resume builders let you build for free and then charge you at the moment you try to take the file away.
ATS
Folio scores your resume 0 to 100 across 7 weighted criteria: structure is worth 30, headings 18, selectable text 16, contact details 12, length 10, contrast 8, and risky elements 6. The ATS-friendly badge appears at 90 or above.
Structure
Folio does not grade a file you upload from elsewhere. It builds the resume inside templates where the parsing rules hold by construction, so text stays selectable and headings stay machine-readable. The score reports what the layout already guarantees.
Link
Your live page gets a real address you can print on the PDF, drop into an email signature, or read out on a call. The resume points at the site, and the site is built from the resume, so a recruiter who follows the link finds the same person.
More room
A resume is a page with a length limit. The site is not. Put the project write-ups, the longer story, the case studies, and the contact form on the page, and leave the file lean enough to survive a screen.
Cover letters
Matching cover letters draft off the same content record as the site and the resume, so your job title does not read three different ways across three documents. The application tracker lives in the same account.
How it compares
Every tool here can put something about you on the internet. The question is what happens to the file a recruiter actually opens.
| Capability | Folio | Wix | Squarespace | Kickresume | Canva |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A live page at a public URL | Yes, portfolio.wrxstack.com/yourname on Free | Yes, on a vendor subdomain until you pay | Yes, publishing requires a paid plan | Yes, a hosted resume page | A shareable design link, not a website |
| The resume PDF is built from the page content | Yes, one record renders both | No, you attach a file you made elsewhere | No, the PDF is a separate upload | Yes, the page and the file share content | The PDF is whatever you laid out by hand |
| Download the resume without paying | Free, PDF and DOCX, no watermark | Not applicable, there is no resume file | Not applicable, there is no resume file | A paid plan is required to download | Free PDF download |
| Every layout available on the free tier | Yes, no resume layout is paywalled | Not applicable | Not applicable | Premium templates sit behind a paid plan | Some templates and elements are Pro only |
| Edit once, site and file both update | Yes, there is no second copy to maintain | No, you maintain the two separately | No, you maintain the two separately | Within the resume, but there is no real site | No, each design is its own file |
| Publish at yourname.com | Pro, $9 a month. Free includes 0 domains | Paid plan | Paid plan | The page stays on their domain | Paid plan |
Competitor rows describe the shape of each vendor's published free and paid tiers, not their prices, and vendors change terms. Check the current pricing page before you decide. Folio's own limits are stated in the same table on purpose: Free is 0 custom domains with a Made with Folio line, and yourname.com is what Pro is for.
The numbers, all first-party
Every figure here is a fact about the product, not a statistic about the world. You can write your history, publish the site, score the resume, and download the PDF and the DOCX without paying. What Free withholds is the domain: you get portfolio.wrxstack.com/yourname, plus a Made with Folio line, 10 AI generations a month, the core designs rather than all 60 themes, and 512 MB of media.
$0
to export the PDF and DOCX
no watermark, no export paywall
7
weighted ATS criteria
structure alone is worth 30 of 100
90
score the ATS-friendly badge needs
shown to you before you export
0
custom domains on Free
yourname.com needs Pro at $9 a month
Standing out
Almost every resume website says the same three things: a name, a job title, and a wall of bullets lifted straight off the PDF. If the page is a transcription of the file, there is no reason for anyone to read it, and the link on your resume is decoration. The site earns its place only when it holds something the file physically cannot.
So lead with the work. One project, told properly, with what the problem was, what you actually did, and what changed because you did it, will do more than ten bullets ever will. Recruiters skim the file and read the page, which is exactly backwards from how most people spend their effort. Write the page for a human who is deciding whether to have a conversation with you.
Then get out of the way. Make the contact route obvious, keep the load fast, and make sure the page is legible on a phone, because that is where the link gets opened. Do not spend a week choosing a font. A clear page about real work beats a beautiful page about nothing, and you can change the design later without touching a word you wrote.
FAQ
Paste your career history into Folio, let it structure the sections, choose one of the core designs, and publish. The page goes live at portfolio.wrxstack.com/yourname with a Made with Folio line on it, and the matching PDF and DOCX download without a watermark or a paid tier. What Free leaves out is a domain of your own: it includes zero of them, along with a cap of 10 AI generations a month.
Yes, and there is nothing to hand-build. People searching for a Bootstrap template or a from-scratch HTML tutorial usually just want a page that looks right and stays current, which is a maintenance problem rather than a coding one. Folio writes no code for you to keep, and none for you to break. You will not find an HTML editor or a downloadable template here, so if you specifically want to own the source files, use a static site generator instead.
You can point a domain you already own at your Folio site, but that sits on Pro at $9 a month. Folio does not sell you the domain; buy it from any registrar, then map it and Folio issues the certificate. To be blunt about the free tier: it includes zero custom domains, so your address stays portfolio.wrxstack.com/yourname until you upgrade.
They are two views of the same career history and they do different jobs. The file is what an applicant tracking system parses and what a recruiter attaches to a requisition, so it has to be plain, selectable, and short. The web version is what a human opens when they want to know whether you are interesting, so it can breathe. Folio renders both from one record, which is why they never end up disagreeing about where you worked.
Stop retyping the bullets. A page that duplicates the file gives nobody a reason to click the link. Pick the one piece of work you are proudest of and explain the problem, your part in it, and the outcome, in normal sentences. Make it fast, make it readable on a phone, and make it obvious how to contact you. That beats any amount of visual flourish.
Not automatically. There is no connect-your-LinkedIn button, no OAuth handshake, and no GitHub repository sync either, so anything promising a one-click pull is describing a different product. Open your profile, copy the text, and paste it in. It takes a couple of minutes and you end up reviewing what you wrote, which is generally an improvement on importing it.
No, and it is worth being precise about why. The scorer reads Folio's own layout, theme, and view model, so it cannot grade a PDF you made in Canva or Word. What it does instead is remove the failure mode: the templates are built so the parsing rules hold, and the score of 0 to 100 across those 7 criteria tells you where the resume you built here currently stands before you export it.
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