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The assignment
•Home page (index.html)
•About Me page
•Contact information
•Resumé – both HTML and PDF
•Galleries organized by work samples
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The home page
•Keep it clean and simple
•Avoid the “splash page” approach
•Clearly communicate
•Who you are
•What you can do
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Your About Me Page
•communicatetovisually in your design to
Your chance say what you’re trying
•OK to it clear, clean,shinebrief – but it’s
Keep and
let your style through
•Summary of skills and experience OK,
but…
•This is the place you can be a person –
hobbies, activities, family all OK –but…
•This isn’t Facebook
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Resumé
•Same content as your paper portfolio
•page version – that is, a regular Web
HTML
•Typographical control is the key
•downloadingpaper portfolio for
PDF of your
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Galleries
•Make ease of use the priority
•each type of skillonly – three example of
Show best work
•appreciate skill enough for user to
Make images large
•Explain what you did
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Contact Info
•No forms – this is a change
•Consider putting it on every page
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Miscellaneous Tips
•Keep it simple
•example) any technologyduplicate for
Don’t try (animation,
that you can’t
•Plan, plan, plan
•Site maps
•Wireframes
•early pagesideas, graphic designs and
Show your
to lots of people
