Professional Web Portfolio Workshop Jon Anscher Introductions Who - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Professional Web Portfolio Workshop Jon Anscher

Introductions Who are you? What do you do (or want to do)? Why are you here?

Learning Goals • Participants will walk away from today with... • A working portfolio • A plan for how to develop an online presence • A strategy for marketing yourself

What We’ll Cover • Website development basics • The WordPress dashboard • Adding content • Site settings • Appearance: themes, menus, and widgets • Advanced options • Portfolio tips • Your online resume

Take Care of Your Needs • Tune in when you need to • Tune out when you need to • Go where you need to • Honor the needs of others • http://jonanscher.com

Website Editors Drag and Drop WYSIWYG Coding Text Wrangler se Dreamweaver KompoZer Sandvox

Website Editors So why ? • As cheap as FREE • Cloud-based • One-click updates • Large community of developers

Website Editors Disadvantages of • Changes happen instantly • Local backups trickier • Themes can be limiting

Hosting Options • Wordpress.com (free) Less Control • Hosting Service (monthly fee) More Control • BYOS (initial costs, then self-maintained)

Demonstration

Portfolio Tips What to include • Resume • Manifesto or Mission • Bio • Social links • Mugshot • Blog • Testimonials • Contact me • Portfolio artifacts • Memorable design

Portfolio Tips What to do What to avoid • Keep it simple • Hard to read text • Sell yourself • Graphics heavy pages • Tell your story • Busy pages • Complex navigation • Process narratives • Vague information • Give it personality • Too many work samples • Be easy to reach • Errors!! • Make it responsive

Portfolio Tips Let’s look at some examples • My Porfolio • Andrew K. Miller • Benjamin Sheppard • Evan B • Ajay Alfred • Filtered Portfolio

Portfolio Tips Physical portfolios • Page protectors • Business cards • Color-coded sections • Multiple resumes • Avoid page numbers • Application materials: • Resume • Transcripts • Be even more selective • Test scores • Certificates • Include things you might • Reference letters • Reference contact info not in your web portfolio 


Portfolio Tips A note on resumes • Take advantage of hyperlinks • Chronological or functional or…? • Think responsive

Thank You @jonanscher jonanscher@me.com