Conceive, design, and begin building a personal portfolio website. Your focus will be just one of a large number of possibilities, the main 3 being:
- investigating and finding a portfolio service
- altering a blog style site
- building a site from scratch
Your direction will be set by your ability and goals for a portfolio site and will be unique to each student. Those with the technical ability and need can investigate more experimental directions.
Domain: Decide what to call your online portfolio.
- A domain will cost you about $10 a year, but is sometimes rolled into the cost of hosting.
- Your name? www.eppelheimer.com
- A variation of your name? theepp.com
- Your name with a design bent? eppelheimergraphicdesign.com
- Something completely different, but design related? designismytruelove.com
Use godaddy or networksolutions to see what names are available.
Hosting: Research hosting services
- Make sure you get a service that uses Linux, not Windows.
- View comparative services here
- Recommendations from Wordpress
- Marty uses aplus
- I use Lunarpages
- Huevia is a new hosting service to check out (great customer service!)
All Inclusive: Research options
Some services offer hosting (still need domain) and a beginning template
- CargoCollective
- SquareSpace Tyler uses it: http://www.thenewprogramme.net/, another example: http://www.lawaugh.com/
Flexible templates: Research options
These need hosting and domains
- Indexexhibit example site: http://www.carlmole.co.uk/
- Wordpress example site: http://estudiointerlinea.com/
In class today
1. Review the other section's Find + Share!
2. Go to the Current Perspectives Lecture
Homework
- Find three great portfolio sites to share with class, post to Portfolio Find + Share
- Propose 3 naming options that are available.
- Propose a system for use. Ex: wordpress, domain purchased on godaddy, hosted on Huevia.
- Begin making a list of your work, and brainstorm ways of categorizing it, ex: timeline, media type, type of design problem, etc.
- Working within your system, sketch (by hand) 3 categorization and navigation ideas. Show three or four levels of interaction,
ex: homepage > portfolio > strategy > project
ex: homepage > writing > article - Try one of the portfolio pay services (use the free trials) to build a quick "site". Don't spend a lot of time with this.
- Post any reviews or suggestions to this post after researching.
*do not purchase anything just yet
A few words on Indexhibit...
ReplyDeleteI tried this service earlier this year, and it was very difficult to get it started, you really have to know what you are doing. It requires a lot of knowledge about your server space, and can be complex due to the number of places where you have a chance to fuck it up. Getting your server space connected to the Indexhibit online hub can be tricky.
Anyway, once I did get it to work on my personal website, (I use lunarpages for my hosting/server space and godaddy for my domain name) I decided I really didn't like the format, and it is actually quite difficult to customize the website in a unique way. It does however function well as a simple navigation format, once you get started. Also, they have a few nice formats for displaying a gallery of your work.
If you want to see what is working for people and what is not, I found the forum for Indexhibit really helpful:
http://www.indexhibit.org/forum/
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More advanced than I think I am capable of, or so it looks, but I like the drawers. They all end up being open if you open them all.
http://www.svenstuckenschmidt.de/
I like the never ending display of work. Easy to view, minimal information. Links on top that jump to the bottom.
http://www.lifterbaron.com/
I like the layout and the simple windows of what the work looks like. The navigation is kinda of interesting living at the top.