Project: Design Portfolio Website

Objective: For this final website project, you are to create and publish a Design Portfolio to showcase selected graphic designs that you have created during the semester. Use Wix.com to create a free website. It will be highly customized to display your own design ability.

FIRST Few Steps

  1. Choose an appropriate template.
  2. As soon as you choose your template, copy the link (web address) and paste it into a Word file. (Reason: So that I can compare the original with your final portfolio.)
  3. Click the SAVE button and provide a name that is more creative than "/mysite"
  4. Copy your web address into the same Word file.
  5. Go ahead and upload your Word File to OAKS. Then you can continue to develop your portfolio until its due date of April 27th. I will not grade it until that time.

Overall Requirements

Sample
Site Navigation

Below you will find specifics for each page of your website. The sidebar below shows a possible sitemap. However, you are free to make your navigation vertical or horizontal. Also, if you prefer shorter titles for your navigation buttons, you can modify them to your liking.

Home page

On this page, you should have about two paragraphs introducing your website. Keep it professional, and say anything that you wish to. Some possibilities include, but are not limited to: who you are, what's the purpose of this portfolio, your hopes and aspirations, one or more moderately sized additional images that you created, link to your social media account(s) so that others can follow you, etc.

Don't forget to include your email address in a prominent place on this page. (If desired, you can delete it after it's graded.)

InDesign Designs

On this page or pages you will attractively lay out your images and written justifications that you created earlier in the semester. The image widths should be 600 pixels or less so that they fit nicely onto the page. The write-up is also important because it allows you to showcase your ability to use typography effectively.

Be sure to use the JPEG version of your InDesign files. It's okay if you want to only show one page of the newsletter. As for the logo from Project 7, it is okay if you want to show only the logo, or only the business card.

Photoshop

Include at least four (4) of your best designs.

Illustrator

The minimum requirements for the illustrator pages are the JPEG version of the following:

Design Principles

Include your group's write-up on principles of design. (You can list names of your group members for this.)

How to Submit:

  1. Log onto OAKS and access the "Semester Project" Dropbox
  2. Upload the Word document described earlier.
  3. Make sure that your link works. The wrong link at the end of the semester can be detremental.
  4. Due by your Final Exam date.