Your webfolio can help you...

• Get a job, on-line or on-site
• Sell your graphic & web design skills
• Win scholarship money
• Gain admission to schools
• Entertain friends and strangers

mockup

Oh yes, of course you need to know what content to put into your site. Well, pretty much everything you've done in the course should be included.

The minimum content should be one finished work from each lab in the course.

Based on sites you've found and like, make a mock-up on paper of your own site.

This means creating a simple sketch of the design for your own site...including...

• layout
• background color/images
• text color(s)
• font size/style
• navigational structure
• button or link style
• strategies for CRAP

1 Apply graphic design principles to webpage design.

research

Before you work actively on your own website, you should take a critical look at others' web design. In this research phase, you will be making a careful critique of both good and bad websites.

Spend a limited amount of time browsing the web and looking for evidence of both successful and poor graphic design (web design).

Remember the goals of good graphic design:
-Looks good
-Communicates well

Choose one site that you feel is designed well and one site that is designed poorly.

Complete a WebCritique sheet for each of these sites. You will be looking for specific evidence of both good and bad design.

design

You can build webpages the old-fashioned way by learning and using all the HTML tags but webpage editors are far easier and more visually versatile.

We'll be using an industry-standard application called Dreamweaver.

Your principle design tasks are to (a) choose and prepare all the images you'll be including in your pages and (b) do the layout in Dreamweaver.

Dreamweaver is not difficult but a few instructions are in order.

You can make your way now to the technical instructions for the lab.