Your portfolio site must contain all the items listed below. It
can contain more than the items listed, of course.
The audience for your portfolio is a potential employer.
Your portfolio site must be suitable for that audience and must demonstrate
your intention that the audience will find your site easy to use
and appealing. The site must show off your Web skills and
talents.
| Item |
Criteria |
| Home page |
Make a great first impression. Fit entirely in
800 x 600. Identify you. Provide clear navigation to the rest
of your site. |
| Bio page |
Demonstrate clear communication skill and good
writing mechanics. Briefly introduce yourself to the site visitor.
Make yourself seem interesting and nice! |
| Notes section |
See below for list of required topics. This section
demonstrates your skill at organizing content and naming items.
Demonstrate clear communication skill and good writing mechanics. |
| Photo gallery (not Flash) |
Use thumbnail navigation and include at least
six photos. Photos must be visible without scrolling at 800 x
600. Ease of navigation is paramount. Photos must be interesting;
no snapshots of family and friends! |
| Photo gallery examples |
Link to and briefly critique 3 excellent photo
galleries. Each example should have an excellent navigation interface.
|
| Image map |
Your image map must link to at least five separate
pages within your site. They must not be pages that are part of
your photo gallery or other required sections. The image map may
use rollovers, or not. It must NOT be a sliced table! |
| Interactive map example |
Link to and briefly critique an excellent interactive
map online. The map may use any technology, but it MUST be interactive.
It can show a real or imaginary geography. |
| GIF animation |
Your own original work. Watch out for the file
size (not too large). |
| Web video examples |
Link to and briefly critique 2 excellent videos
made for the Web. Each example should demonstrate qualities that
make the video well suited for the Web, not for another medium. |
| Audio file with embedded player |
Use the QuickTime player for best results. The
file must be of your own spoken voice (not singing) and the content
must be appropriate to your portfolio. Watch the file size. |
| Flash animation |
Show off what you can do. To make the best impression,
include some interactivity with buttons. Do not use Flash for
your full site's navigation. |
| Flash photo slideshow with sound |
Must include at least 6 photos of your own. Photos
must be interesting; no snapshots of family and friends! Audio
can be spoken voice or a music loop. Slide show must be controlled
with buttons -- at minimum, Stop, Play, Rewind. |
| Interactive HTML form |
A functioning HTML form that sends a user's feedback
to you via e-mail. |
| Interactive form example |
Link to and briefly critique an example of a
cool or interesting interactive poll, survey, quiz or questionnaire. |
| Database examples |
Link to and briefly critique 2 examples of good
Web interfaces to databases. |
| Database front end |
Link to and briefly explain the group project
you completed in the course. |
The notes section of your portfolio can have a slightly different
look and feel than the sections that show off your work. The writing
should be brief and clear. The intention of each notes page is
to demonstrate your understanding of the topic. Notes can also explain
what you learned both in class and from the readings. Notes can serve
as reminders to you later of how you achieved a certain result.
Students often incorporate the external examples (listed above)
into their notes section, to separate the examples from their own
original work.
Your portfolio must include notes on each one of these topics:
- Page/screen layout
- CSS
- Navigation systems
- Photoshop, GIFs, JPGs
- Interactive graphics and maps
- Players & plug-ins, sound, video
- Flash
- HTML forms
- Databases
The goal of each notes page is to clearly show your understanding
of the topic at a professional level. DO NOT COPY any text from anywhere
to place on these pages!
You are encouraged -- but not required -- to use a Weblog (blog)
for your notes section. That way you could just post your notes
each week (for example, after each class meeting) and reformat the
blog later when your site design is complete. You may use a free
service such as Blogger for this.
If you have any questions about the requirements described
on this page, I expect you to ask me for clarification --
before the last week of the semester.