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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

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Dreamweaver

Text Wrangler Coding WYSIWYG Drag and Drop

Website Editors

Website Editors

So why

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• 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)
• Hosting Service (monthly fee)
• BYOS (initial costs, then self-maintained)

Less Control More Control

Demonstration

Portfolio Tips

• Resume
• Bio
• Mugshot
• Testimonials
• Portfolio artifacts

What to include

• Manifesto or Mission
• Social links
• Blog
• Contact me
• Memorable design

Portfolio Tips

• Keep it simple
• Sell yourself
• Tell your story
• Process narratives
• Give it personality
• Be easy to reach
• Make it responsive

What to do What to avoid

• Hard to read text
• Graphics heavy pages
• Busy pages
• Complex navigation
• Vague information
• Too many work samples
• Errors!!

Portfolio Tips

• My Porfolio
• Andrew K. Miller
• Benjamin Sheppard
• Evan B
• Ajay Alfred
• Filtered Portfolio

Let’s look at some examples

Portfolio Tips

• Page protectors
• Color-coded sections
• Avoid page numbers
• Be even more selective
• Include things you might

not in your web portfolio


• Business cards
• Multiple resumes
• Application materials:
• Resume
• Transcripts
• Test scores
• Certificates
• Reference letters
• Reference contact info

Physical portfolios

Portfolio Tips

• Take advantage of hyperlinks
• Chronological or functional or…?
• Think responsive

A note on resumes

Thank You

@jonanscher jonanscher@me.com