Before we actually began to look at our own websites, we went through and looked at how to create a job resume, as part of the portfolio is presenting yourself to potential clients, and so the portfolio is in a way also a resume. This was important in showing that even if we don't have much professional work environment skills, its important to list any personal skills or talents that you might have as well on a resume to make yourself look better to your potential clients and to accurately display your abilities.
After we finished looking at how to create a resume, we then looked into other people's portfolio websites to see what kind of information they displayed on their websites and to look at the design aspects of their portfolios. Each of these websites were of course different, and most of the time they seemed to focus more on displaying past work rather than information about the people who made the website. This shows how the primary purpose of a portfolio website is more to display your past works to try and convince your potential clients of what you are capable of doing for them, in addition to listing your possible skills and past work experiences.
Once we had learned how to create our own resume and seen how other people had created their portfolios, our task had finally fallen to creating our own portfolio website. To be blatantly honest, I have not finished mine. I let distractors into my life and didn't work when I should have, a major mistake that I have learned from. Regardless I can still talk of the process needed to make this site and what I can reflect upon it already. The first thing that was needed for the website was to create a logo for ourselves. After a long period of deliberation and trying to think of anything that I could possibly make to describe myself, I finally came up with the idea of using an Eagle with my initials. Something that would look unique, be simple, and be fitting to who I am. The next part was to create a "tagline" for myself, which is something that I have been heavily struggling with and I seem to be unable to think of one. Of course after all of that, the next part is to create our portfolio in DreamWeaver, make our own unique design, present our content, and tell about ourselves. I'm not quite done as of the time of writing this. I've been working on trying to think of how to design my site and what information to tell about myself and what projects to share, and have been hitting several mental roadblocks on the way.I hope that over this Christmas Break I'll be able to relax and recollect myself, and that by next semester I'll be refreshed and ready to go. I'm hoping next semester I'll be able to get a fresh start and not fall behind again like I did this semester, and get a better grip on controlling and keeping distractors out of my schoolwork.
Merry Christmas!
