That is mainly what I did this week.  I carefully took screenshots of all my websites, then saved them in a variety of formats, including an 8.5" by 11" PDF for my secondary portfolio.  I still have more samples I want to include, except they aren’t done yet (one being my new portfolio site and the other being a design done at my job).  I know I probably won’t be able to add one of them by the end of the semester, but my own personal site can be added.  Tomorrow I need to get my website’s copy for each page looked at by my professor to see if it is suitable for website and/or my print portfolio.

I also printed a webpage on my CMYK ink jet printer (has a cartridge for each color…pretty cool) onto a 8.5" by 11" piece of high quality, matte photo paper to see if the results would be good.  I think the colors are much too vivid, so I’m going to bring it in for my professor to look at and see if there may be a better way of getting high quality prints done for cheap (and at the correct color settings).

I also put my resume onto my finished letter template.  I tried hard to get it looking snazzy, but i’m no expert on typography (I haven’t even taken the class yet.  I will next semester though).

The last thing I worked on was getting my basic Wordpress template done (the template with all the php tags that output the blog posts dynamically).  After this is done, I just have to apply my design to it.  Hopefully it won’t be that big of a problem.  I remember this is the hardest step (adding your own design).  Dealing with each blog post and the titles, author and other stuff is a difficult task to get it all looking right.  Much more difficult on wordpress than it is on Joomla.  Maybe I should have gone with joomla, eh? haha.

The reading in "Building Design Portfolios," this week was about the non-traditional portfolio and web sites.  A non-traditional portfolio is usually something odd that you wouldn’t expect to show off design.  Some guy (Kevin O’Callaghan) made a huge 1 story model of a portfolio that got him his first job.  That’s just crazy in my opinion.

Reading "Designing a Digital Portfolio," it said some useful things about web site portfolios.  First of all, it said that a web developer had better show some advanced interactivity if they want to impress potential clients, but more than that, you should pick a website portfolio metaphor for your site (or you can pick more than one).  Looking through the metaphors, I figured my site would be a mixture of a gallery and diary site (since I am going to have a blog on it).  I’m also thinking of including a brochure element saying what services I can offer people when I am freelancing.

My boss is also looking for a new graphic artist, print designer and possibly a web designer.  Please visit their site http://www.mediainfocus.com (which I helped build) or send an email to kristen@mediainfocus.com with your resume, examples of work and cover letter.