In some ways creating this web folio was meditative. Having to go back and edit all our assignments from the course made me very aware of the present, as you’re not thinking about what you have to write only what now exists on the page, and then correcting it or finding a more concise way of saying it. related to that, editing all our assignments forces us two really apply the strategies and feedback we’ve received during this course.
Creating this web folio was also interesting from a design and marketing perspective. One of the most important questions I asked was how to organize the vast amount of material required to be on our site. Larger scale sections were straight forward to organize, for example it was clear that the bio page could just be one page, and it did not require any other subpages. Where it was tricky was specifically with the resume, application package, and portfolio pages. Were the application package and resume distinct items that should each receive their own page? Or should one or should they be under what one tab called “Work” and each be a subpage. I eventually settled that they should be under the same page because they contain similar documents and ideas. the portfolio is trickiest, because you can argue that writing samples should be in the same area as a resume and application package. Because the portfolio required uploading at least nine edited documents, I felt the sub menu would be too cluttered if you also added a resume and applications package. Thus. To reduce the size of the sub menu I kept the portfolio as a separate tab from the resume and application package.
Figuring out how to market my site was also an interesting challenge. I had to ask myself which organisations would be interested in someone with a resume and writing portfolio, but also a passion for music and plenty of experience in that area. After some consideration, I decided all the content on my website would be most relevant to arts organisations looking for someone who could create effective technical documents, perhaps an administrative assistant or projects management assistant. Using an arts organization as my audience, I was able to unify both my assignments from the course and the bio I had already written for the blog site. This also justified including my Instagram on my page