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Professional Portfolio Building Kimberly Bourque, CxC Coordinator Tuesday/Wednesday, October 12 & 13, 2010 4:30 – 5:30pm
Objectives • Goals of building a professional portfolio
• Digital portfolio building process • Basic tenants of website design
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• Tour of Weebly, a website building site
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Portfolio Building Process
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Portfolio Model
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Building Process: Step 1
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Building Process: Step 2
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Building Process: Step 3
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Building Process: Step 4
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Building Process: Step 5
Portfolio Activity Answer the following questions: • Who is your portfolio audience?
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• What do you think they are looking for in your portfolio?
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Portfolio Design Process
Design Choices
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• Organization/Layout • Navigation/Main Pages • Color Scheme
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Design Tips: Organization
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Design: Layout
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Design: Layout
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Design: Navigation
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Design: Navigation
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Design: Navigation
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Design: Color Scheme
Design: Psychology of Color Red • Evoking passion/anger • Increases metabolism
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Yellow • Associated with energy • Highly active/overpowering
Blue
Orange • Promotes happiness/creativity • Informal, less corporate
Green • Associated with nature • Soothing, symbolizes growth
Purple
• Symbolizes intelligence • Associated with royalty/power • Calming, reduce metabolism • Wealth/extravagance
Design: Psychology of Color
• Associated with cleanliness • Color of perfection, light and purity
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Black • Negative: Death and evil • Positive: Power, elegance and strength
Summary • “Tell your story”
• Keep your audience and purpose in mind
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• Tell them what you want to tell them, tell them why and tell them what you want • Use clear organization and navigation to orient you user • Avoid distracting color combinations
CxC Resources CxC Communication Studio 151 151 Coates Hall, 578-7656
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CxC Art + Design Communication Studio 104A Design Building, 578-1197 CxC Engineering Communication Studio 2302 Patrick F. Taylor Hall, 578-2632 CxC Music & Dramatic Arts Studio 248 M&DA Building, 578-3515
Research Resources Websites • Basic Design http://library.albany.edu/imc/webdesign/page3.html • Portfolio Model http://ufolio.uoregon.edu/lcbhonors/eportfolios/ • Portfolio Examples http://cxc.lsu.edu/Portfolios.html • Organization/Wireframes www.gliffy.com • Color Scheme http://teamnirvana.com/blog/how-to-choose-best-web-
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designing-color-combinations-for-websites-and-blogs-from-10-online-applicationsand-tools.html
• Stock Photos http://www.sxc.hu/ • Utilized photos http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1082760U & http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1083339
Books • Beaird, Jason. The Principles of Beautiful Website Design. Australia: SitePoint, 2007. • Eyman, Douglas. Portfolio Creation What every student should know about…Creating a portfolio. New York: Pearson, 2008.
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Questions?
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.� - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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