You're a designer, and you're good at designing. But design skills are one thing, and selling these skills is another story entirely. An online portfolio site can market your services to clients around the world. It helps explain your vision and your process, and showcases examples of your best work. This class will teach you the steps to designing an expertly curated portfolio, including selecting a website hosting service, constructing a Wordpress website, customizing your website with various themes, plugins, and widgets, and optimizing your website for search engine results. By the end of the course, you will build a portfolio that best reveals who you are as a designer, as well as the value you can offer clients or your future employer.

Learning Outcomes

At the conclusion of the course, you should be able to

• Apply best practice guidelines for layout, navigation, content selection, basic HTML and CSS coding, and file structure to building a Wordpress portfolio site
• Select portfolio work samples that reflect the goals of the designer and the portfolio site
• Effectively categorize projects and apply navigation that allows for easy viewing of work samples
• Create visual comps and polished drafts that guide development of the portfolio site pages
• Apply basic techniques for polishing site content and planning for future site expansion
• Apply image optimization techniques, improve overall site performance, and optimize for search engine results

Topics Include

• Planning your online portfolio
• Selecting a website hosting service
• Installing Wordpress and themes
• Customizing Wordpress plugins and widgets
• Designing page layouts and content organization
• Integrating animated SVGs and HTML5 animation to your portfolio
• Setting up Podcast Generator and submitting podcast to iTune
• Setting up blog and social integration
• Adding search engine optimization

Working knowledge of:

• Basic HTML and CSS knowledge

Notes

Either PC or Mac computers are okay for this course.