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Your Web Portfolio

Your Web Portfolio. ART340. Your Target Audience . Who will visit your site? When deciding where you want to work, ask yourself: Urban vs. Rural? What is the demographic location? What is the culture of the area you wish to live in?

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Your Web Portfolio

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  1. Your Web Portfolio ART340

  2. Your Target Audience • Who will visit your site? • When deciding where you want to work, ask yourself: • Urban vs. Rural? • What is the demographic location? • What is the culture of the area you wish to live in? • If you were an employer, what would you want to see on a potential hire’s site? • For this project, you will create 3 user profilesfor you, and two of your competitors.

  3. Your Target Audience • Q: Why must you understand your target audience? • A: It is essential in selecting your design pieces, and in designing your site for that particular audience. • Give your target user profile a name, let’s say Bob. Ask yourself, what would Bob want to see? Bob

  4. Personal Logo Joe Shmoe • You will create a logo for your site. • The first thing a potential employer will see is your logo. • Create a memorablelogo. • TIP: Show your roommates your logo concepts. Ask them a couple days later which one stuck out the most to them? • Keep your logo near the top of your design. • Tip: Always link your logo to your homepage.

  5. Personal Logo Examples:

  6. Personal Tagline • When a person arrives at your site, they want to know who you are & what you do. A tagline explains that. Keep it simple and clear. • Spend time to reflect on: • What do I do? What experience do I have? What do I love? • Check out: www.sloganizer.net/et _____________________________________________ I design for money. I enjoy it for free. Great design is what I do. I design to live, and eat to design.

  7. The Portfolio • Use large, high-quality images • Limit your scope and number of works • 10 is much better than 50 • Provide who, what, where, when and why of each example • Consider doing a short and sweet description for each work. • Describe the skills you needed to complete the project.

  8. What can you include? • Book designs • Design projects • Fine art • Layouts • Magazines • Photographs • Calligraphy • Illustrations • Logos • Package design • Storyboards • Type • Web design • App design • Anything that showcases your creative skills.

  9. Your Services • Eliminate the guesswork. Tell them what you do. • Possible Examples: • Logo design • Flyer design • Poster design • Editorial design • Web design • Web development • Video • Copywriting • Photography

  10. About Me • The place where youmodestlytoot your own horn. • Things to consider including on this page: • Your background information • Any interesting details about yourself • A picture of yourself • Adds an element of trust • Any awards and recognition • Your skills • Client testimonials YOUR OWN HORN

  11. Contact • The second-most important page on your portfolio site • If someone wants to hire you, help them, help you • Make it as easy as you can on the visitor • Make your contact button highly visible • Write a sentence inviting them to contact you • Consider creating a user-friendly contact form

  12. Craft jTheir markup is superb. Let’s hire them. • Use standards compliant markup • Organize your files and folders • Remove unneeded images/rules/etc. • Avoid spaghetti code! • If a potential hire goes under the hood of your site, make sure your engine purrs like a newborn kitten

  13. Usability • Clear, visible and user-friendly navigation • Beware of uncommon navigations • Don't let your creative concept distract from your work: • For example, horizontal scrolling can be confusing YOUR GOAL: THIS REACTION

  14. Call to Action • A “call to action” is what you want your visitors to do once they arrive • Each page should have one • In your case, from the homepage, you might want a button that leads the person to view your portfolio. • Make the action clear. A large button linking to another page is one solution. _____________________________________________ What are some other calls to action your site might have?

  15. Social Media • Behance • Deviant Art • Flickr • Linkedin • Blogs • Avoid using sites like Facebook, Pinterest& Twitter unless these pages are professional in nature.

  16. Blog • Blogs are what’s hot • Why? They generate fresh content on a regular basic, and search engine loves that. • An opportunity showcase your knowledge. • People can follow you by subscribing to your RSS feed. • Top 5 free blogging sites: • Blogger, Wordpress, Livejournal, Tumblr, Blogsome

  17. Design Considerations • Avoid using too many visual elements • Utilize whitespace • Consider down-the-road how easy it will be to do updates • Subtlety infuse your personality • Consider creating infographics • Less is more.

  18. InfoGraphics • Visual communication at its essence.

  19. Employment Timeline InfoGraphic

  20. Portfolio Examples Let’s look at some portfolio websites together: • http://dansweetdesign.com/ • http://www.gerrenlamson.com/index.htm • http://www.markhobbs.net/ • http://jawsmartin.com(your peer)

  21. Final Tip • Be yourself. • This is a personal portfolio site, so be personal. • Avoid being too corporate, aka. cold and serious.

  22. References Munroe, Lee. "10 Steps To The Perfect Portfolio Website."Smashing Magazine. N.p., 26 2009. Web. 8 Nov 2012. <http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/02/26/10-steps-to-the-perfect-portfolio-website/>. Hodge, Sean. "Creating A Successful Online Portfolio."Smashing Magazine. N.p., 04 2008. Web. 8 Nov 2012. <http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/03/04/creating-a-successful-online-portfolio/>.

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