Unlike many other professional writing mediums like a memorandum or resumé, creating a web folio has a very flexible format. A new site can be exciting to design with so many different possibilities, but the flexibility also means more work to make design decisions. I ended up using a WordPress site to construct this folio. With previous familiarity, it was the most reasonable option for an online platform. As a computer science student with some knowledge of web technologies, I plan to design a more polished personal website in the future without the help of a content management system like WordPress. This would allow more customization then picking from a fixed WordPress theme.
After crafting the web folio’s layout, the only thing left to do was revise the technical writing samples that I posted using feedback from a professor and colleagues. The goal for these samples is to showcase my professional communications skills to potential employers. It was challenging to reword certain sections and keep in mind some of the technical writing principles that were new to me. On the bright side, now that I know of these principles, it is only a matter of time before I master them.