Website Official

Professional. Accomplished. Winner.

This is the consummation of how I feel having made my own website, full of my own works in a portfolio that is a reflection of all my best talents. Being able to submit this along with my resume to employers when seeking a new job will be extremely gratifying form of self promotion, because the existence of the website is self promotion in and of itself. I will also be able to use this website to brag to my family and friends that I escaped this semester relatively unscathed with a lot of work to show for it!

The various social media projects that we have done in this class tie in with this project very well. The process of building a website from the ground up (with lots of help, thank goodness!) has given me a newfound appreciation for website developers as well as app developers, who are constantly working out bugs within their sites or programs. While the upkeep of a personal social media account differs in content as with the upkeep of a website, the idea is still the same. As my portfolio changes and grows and improves, I will be able to add new information and content to my site, much in the way that my perspectives on current events will be changing and therefore will be reported on social media. Additionally, I was able to use the iMovie project as a part of my portfolio. Getting to display my accomplishments in a public place feels really good. While normally I am not one to brag, this doesn’t feel like bragging. It’s just showing and letting people be aware of my accomplishments.

An updated social media presence ties in with an updated website. As time goes on, perhaps I will find the inspiration to link my social media accounts with my website. At this moment, my twitter account isn’t very professional. Since I use my social media quite recreationally, there are many pictures of dogs and silly jokes that I post that while they are certainly not inappropriate, it also is not appropriate for an employer. It toes the line.

The overall experience of designing the website was quite gratifying, and I am inclined to say that I thoroughly enjoyed the entire experience! Though extremely frustrating at times, the ability to create something out of nothing, and to change a the HTML or CSS and have the thing that you wanted to happen actually happen… one of the best feelings in the world. While getting into the program of Dreamweaver was daunting, to say the least, once you got a hang of the quirks of the program and figured out how that button affected that feature, you were golden. Being thrown into the program initially felt like when you are in a foreign country and can’t read any of the directions and you get lost because all of the signs are in German. But once you learn that flugenflagen means airport, you can always get to the airport. Once you learn that you need to use carrots, you can always open and close carrots.