Web Design

This was a good assignment for me to do this week. Especially as a novice in the field of technology! The only thing I've been able to add to the web is a facebook page and this has only been in the last few weeks.
The websites that we were to look at http://www.ratz.com/features.html and http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/ gave some absolutely fantastic information and guidelines to use when building a web site for yourself. A few things they both pointed out that you need to avoid is varying text sizes, fonts, and different colored text. The sites also discussed pages being to overdone or to difficult to navigate. Another piece of advice was to keep all pages in a similar format so it looks consistent. There has to be some forethought into your web site. Who is your audience is a good question to ask yourself. For an e-portfolio you need to include information relevant to education and yourself. Nothing too personal because its not for your friends and family to view. This site will need to be simple but professional looking as well. Since I'm a beginner in web design I found the sites through http://sites.google.com/ , http://www.weebly.com/ , and http://www.yola.com/the easiest to use. I think they all offer great web sites to get started with building your portfolio. I have done a portfolio for another class through CCV but it wasn't using CCV's course portfolio. It was very basic and not something that I could use professionally. So I look forward to building my professional e-portfolio in the weeks to come.