What Design Students Use To Build Their Website Portfolios

I’ve been teaching labs for students in the ArtCenter Graphic Design degree programs over the last five years to help them build their portfolio websites right before they graduate.

I give a lecture at the beginning of the term where for one of my slides I view source and determine which platform eveyone in the previous term used.

Cargo has been the dominant platform since I graduated in 2011 but I always find the fluctuations interesting so I thought I’d share the numbers from the last two years:

Spring 2025
  1. Cargo (70%)
  2. Squarespace (9%)
  3. No CMS (6%)
  4. Readymag (6%)
  5. Webflow (4%)
  6. Wix (2%)
  7. Adobe Portfolio (2%)
  8. Framer (2%)
Spring 2024
  1. Cargo (46%)
  2. Webflow (38%)
  3. Squarespace (10%)
  4. WordPress (3%)
  5. Adobe Portfolio (3%)