Portfolio
The portfolio is a Web site that shows a potential employer how good your Web skills are. It must be delivered in complete working condition on a CD by the deadline. The portfolio counts for 30 percent of your grade.
Contents of the Portfolio
- A home page or introduction page that introduces the site and your work.
- A brief biography of yourself.
- Contact information for yourself.
- At least seven (7) examples of work you have done in this class. Each example must be on its own page.*
*These pages must NOT be pop-up windows. They must include all the normal navigation of your portfolio site. For the CSS work, you may show a screenshot that is LINKED to a new page (target="_blank"), but that new page does NOT count as one of the seven example pages.
You may also include a résumé, but it's not required.
You may also include work you have done outside this course.
Requirements
- It cannot be an all-Flash portfolio.
- Portfolio pages must use only CSS for fonts, color and positioning.
- Navigation must use HTML/CSS, not Flash.
- Do not use JavaScript rollovers for navigation.
- GIFs or JPGs may be used, but not in place of body text. You may create a logo or nameplate that is a GIF or JPG.
- You may use GIFs or JPGs as backgrounds, including button backgrounds.
- Your design work MUST BE original. Copying someone else's page layouts is worthless (and earns zero points), because you're supposed to be demonstrating YOUR OWN design skills.
Grading Criteria
Total: 30 points
- 10 points -- skillful use of color, typography, white space; application of the seven design components (White, pp. 57 - 67); professional appearance
- 5 points -- "Wow!" factor: Will a potential employer be impressed? Is it original?
- 10 points -- correct (standards compliant) use of HTML or XHTML and CSS
- 5 points -- writing and style, mechanics, grammar, spelling (errors can make someone decide not to hire you)
Meeting the deadline is necessary. Late assignments always receive a zero.
Examples
The examples do not meet all of your requirements, but they are original portfolios of Web design work, and they are not all-Flash sites.