Project 4

Project 4: Portfolio Website (240 points)

Description:

For your final project you will create a website that promotes your skills as a designer and features your best work from all classes within the program. You are required to include at least three pieces from ART 140 or ART 114, as how you exhibit websites will be different from other mediums.

Your digital portfolio should ultimately be accessible when a user visits your domain. You should also take into consideration your audience (potential employers, clients). As this site needs to independently represent you as a designer, it's important to provide some context for each piece.

Development Requirements:

1. Your portfolio should have a favicon take into considersation SEO best practices for file names and titles.
2. Your portfolio items should contain captions providing the project title, the mock client and/or criteria of the assignment, and (possibly) how you successfully answered the design problem.
3. Your résumé should be available as a PDF.
4. This project should be accessible at the domain name you purchased at the beginning of the semester.
5. Your portfolio should be responsive and contain a mobile navigation.
6. Consideration should be given towards refining projects completed in this class.

Process:

1. Content assembly. You will assemble all of the content to be displayed in your site, including:
1. A list of all projects with titles, descriptions, and mock clients and/or assignment requirements
2. Images associated with each project. Possibly written captions for each image
3. Your résumé
4. Copy for all of your pages
2. Sitemap/Wireframing. You will develop a sitemap outlining the sections of your site, which will then be expanded further during a wireframe phase.
3. Design. Upon wireframe approval, you will create a design based on the wireframe. At this stage, you will choose the colors, images, fonts, and styles for the site. Designs should be completed as interactive prototypes.
4. Design Critique. You will take part in an in-class design critique where you will provide constructive criticism to your classmates on their designs, as well as receive feedback on yours.
5. Revisions. You will revise the design based on feedback and we will do a second class critique to see how concerns were addressed.
6. Development. You will proceed to develop the website on your local machine. Upon completion, it will be uploaded to your website.
7. Final Critique. You will participate in a final group critique where we review each of the portfolio sites.

Deadlines and Grading Criteria:

Description	Due Date	Points
Research and Sitemap	April 16	50
Content	April 21	25
Wireframes	April 23	25
Design and Design Revisions	April 28 - 30	70
Page Template	May 5	-
Published Site	May 7 (5-7pm)	70

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