sizzledraft

Show your web work in a vertical ad

Sizzledraft turns a web designer's portfolio URL into a short 1080x1920 TikTok ad using real screenshots and the site's own visual style. It helps designers promote recent projects without recording screens, rebuilding layouts or editing every frame by hand.

Opening lines that work here

  • This homepage went from brief to launch in two weeks

    It puts turnaround first, then gives the designer's real project screens a clear claim to support.

  • Three screens that won this redesign approval

    It creates a compact portfolio story around specific design decisions instead of showing an unexplained montage.

  • Watch a desktop portfolio become a mobile-first brand

    It promises a visible design transformation that fits TikTok's vertical format and rewards continued viewing.

How do I turn my web design portfolio into a TikTok ad?

Start with a public portfolio or case study URL that shows the project clearly. Sizzledraft drives a browser through the page, captures real screenshots and uses the site's colours, type and other brand tokens to author the scene. It then renders the ad frame by frame at 1080x1920 and 30fps, with an H.264 export suited to vertical publishing. The first video is cut from the site alone, so the page should make the strongest work easy to find. Later videos accept a prompt, which lets you emphasise a redesign reveal, a short delivery window or the path from wireframe to final interface.

What should a TikTok ad for a web designer show?

Show enough of one project to make your design judgment visible. Open with the finished homepage or the clearest before-and-after contrast, then move through two or three details such as navigation, responsive behaviour, typography or a conversion-focused section. Add a concise line about turnaround when the page supports it, because prospective clients need to understand both the quality of the portfolio and how quickly the work reached launch. Avoid filling the ad with unrelated thumbnails from ten projects. A focused case study gives each screenshot a role: establish the problem, reveal the system and finish on the polished page with a direct invitation to view the portfolio.

How quickly can I make portfolio ads for new projects?

A portfolio URL removes much of the preparation normally required for a new project post. You do not need to record a clean browser session, crop every screen for vertical viewing or recreate the client's visual system inside an editor. Sizzledraft uses the published page as the source, authors a branded scene and renders the frames with audio normalised to -14 LUFS. That makes it practical to create an ad soon after a site launches, while the project details are still current. For recurring promotion, later videos can take a prompt focused on a particular angle, such as a five-day prototype, a responsive redesign or the interaction decisions behind the final homepage.

What the browser actually gets

The browser can capture rendered portfolio pages, case studies, project imagery, typography, colours and interface details directly from the URL. Work hidden behind hover states, login screens, video players or complex canvas interactions may not appear clearly in static screenshots, so a publicly accessible case study with visible outcomes gives the scene better material.

The common mistake

A common mistake is shrinking a wide portfolio homepage into the vertical frame and expecting viewers to inspect it. Fix it by building a short sequence around one project, using close crops of the strongest interface details and a clear turnaround claim that the case study can support.

  • Turning wide desktop portfolio pages into a vertical sequence without making the typography or interface details unreadable
  • Choosing which homepage, case study and final design screens will prove the quality of the work within a short TikTok ad
  • Finishing client work on schedule while also finding time to capture, edit, score and export a portfolio video

Questions

Will the TikTok ad use my actual portfolio work?
Yes. Sizzledraft drives a browser at the portfolio or case study URL and captures real screenshots from the rendered page. It also draws on the site's own colours, typography and other brand tokens when authoring the scene, so the ad reflects the work you published rather than substituting generic website mockups.
What format will my web design ad use?
The vertical ad is rendered at 1080x1920 and 30fps, then exported as H.264. This gives web layouts a portrait canvas for TikTok while preserving recognizable homepage sections, interface details and project imagery. Audio is normalised to -14 LUFS for a consistent final file.
Can I ask for an ad about fast project delivery?
The first video is cut from the site alone, so turnaround claims need to appear clearly on the portfolio or case study page. Later videos accept a prompt, allowing you to request an angle around a two-week launch, rapid prototype or another delivery detail that accurately matches the project.
Can the exported ad include a trending TikTok sound?
Trending sounds are handed over as a link so you can attach the sound natively when posting on TikTok. The sound is not baked into the exported file, because baked-in audio does not count as using that platform sound. The rendered video's own audio is normalised to -14 LUFS.

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