For the final week of this semester, I will be posting a link to my portfolio.

Finished!

smarlin2.w3spaces.com 

I believe I have a great portfolio that showcased my skills that I have been taught throughout this semester. I did not know how to code, nor make a website. Now that we are approaching the end of the semester, I have a new skill to add to my resume that adds levels to my production and learning capabilities. This week, I checked over my portfolio for the final time for spelling errors and grammatical mistakes. Reading the professor’s email, it stated, “Remember that your goals for your portfolio are visual similarity (all files have the same navigation or at least look like they form a unified group), breadth of work (more items is better than fewer), and level of detail (evidence of effort).” Over the past ten weeks, I have provided many files that showcase my editing, researching, and creative works. I have also added more items for my portfolio as time progressed. My navigation banners do not look the same on each page, but it is unified via tabs. Every page shows a different side of me, so I wanted my banners to be different too. The good part of the navigation is that is works by directing the visitor to the file they are seeking.

Next week, I plan to post a link of my portfolio to my blog after answering these questions:

1. A clear audience — who are you talking to?
2. A clear purpose — what are you claiming to be able to do?
3. A unified appearance — each screen should have the same navigation system and should look like all the others, with the possible exception of your index.html page, which might be a hero screen with just a one button navigation scheme.
4. Content. As much content as you can find and create over the course of this semester.

There is one week left to go!

 

 

For assignment 13, I have decided to allow my classmates (if they want to) the ability to critique my portfolio in the hopes that it can improve its quality. I have yet to receive feedback, so I am hoping that means I am on the right track unless stated otherwise. I did some more tweaking on my portfolio this week. I enlarged my profile picture on the about HTML page. Also, I edited more grammar. There were a few repetitive words that I felt needed to be cut out, so I did. I was able to review my blog post from last week, and I saw I put that I may add my blog post on my about page. I do not think I will be doing that now. For the resume HTML, I wanted to change my paragraphs into bullets point. Instead of the coding being <p>, I changed it into <li>. Similar to my hardcopy resume, I wanted bullets on my resume portfolio to create a more professional look. Finally, I revised more grammar on my portfolio HTML.

I do not have any plans for next week. I feel great about my portfolio, resume, about, and especially my index pages. Most likely, I will look over the website for spelling errors. Other than that, I do not have more plans to make the portfolio better. My hope is that post-graduation, employers will look upon my portfolio to hire me. In today’s society, the job market is terrible, so maybe the portfolio will create networking opportunities for better career positions.