Before Monday's class (4/1) you should have your homepage images and text posted. You will also need to make a blog post here on the class blog, and in that post I want you to include:
1. A link to your in-process site (if it is online - this doesn't apply if you're working off a downloaded template. If you are working off a downloaded template, please take a screenshot of your homepage and include it in your post).
2. A "five week plan" that will lay out what you intend to do in the remaining classes for the semester.
3. The start of a "problem log."
Let me explain the last two items:
THE FIVE-WEEK PLAN
Starting today, I want you to make a post on this blog laying out a five-week plan for yourself – explaining what you plan to accomplish in class for this week and the following five weeks. The plan is for you to have at least a rough draft of your completed site up by the end of tweek four. That will give us a couple weeks to do some social media marketing around your site, and to make final touches/edits on your site.
A plan for a portfolio site might look something like this:
Week 1:
Wednesday: Write "About Me" section, get a good "action photo" of myself using the camera. Send emails to clients I've had, to try and get "testimonials" I can use on my site.
Week 2:
Monday: Organize all my photos, sort them into categories (Nature, Wedding, Personal Work), and select the strongest 12 images for each gallery. Resize them for the web and upload them.
Wednesday: Design a logo for the header of the site, and create the header in Photoshop.
Week 3:
Monday: Start a "blog" section for the site, documenting the last photo shoot I was on.
Wednesday: Make another blog post; incorporate a map into my site, so I can tag locations of my travel photography.
(etc.)
Notes:
A. if you're making a blog site, just give yourself a week or two to set up the design and make a couple posts – for the remaining weeks, you should use the class time to make two blog posts a week.
B. Please let me know
C. Week 4 should have listed "have a full rough draft of the website" – and week 5 should include time for marketing the site through social media.
THE PROBLEM LOG (which is built out from the same "five week plan" blog post on this site)
You'll add to that initial five-week plan blog post, writing an ongoing "problem log," detailing the sorts of things you figure out along the way. For example, maybe you figured out how to get into the CSS of his wordpress site, and adjust stylings in the header. Or maybe you started to use a bootstrap template, but then abandoned it for another, because the first one seemed to be too easy to "break" when you customized it.
You'll add to your "problem log" as you work on your site, taking ten minutes or so each class, developing a list of all the obstacles you overcame, and how you overcame them (with links to helpful references and tutorials sprinkled through them). Just pull up the original blog post you made for your three-week plan, click on the little pencil icon at the bottom of it, and that will allow you to edit the post – in edit view, you can add to your problem log each class. Date each entry. It will work as a sort of database for the class - and for yourselves, so you don't have to re-fix any problems you fixed once. Give the post the "tag" "log" se we can sort through all of them easily.
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