Art 345
Final Project Part 1
Create a Portfolio Website:
Your website is a representation of you and the work you have accomplished over the course of the semester.
You are free to create the website using any of the examples Ben shows you in class today. These can range from custom designed, HTML coded sites to adapting existing, free blogs to showcase your work:
Required minimum content:
Here is a good site to model: (there are many others, keep it simple, let the work be the primary visual feature on the site).
You are required to have:
CV/Resume
Bio
Contact Information
If needed a “Front Page” or “Home Page” link
As to projects - each project completed for the class is to be featured in reverse chronological order - ie, last project is the first thing you see when you come to the site. You are also required to write a brief description/statement about each project, as on Michael Mandiberg’s site linked above.
For Art 345 website the projects will be:
Assignment #4 The two sound files made for assignment #4 - the sound compositions created one through a random process the other with intention. Post these as quicktime files without video.
Assignment #5 The two completed videos made to compliment your two sound compositions. Post these as embedded videos from Youtube or Vimeo.
Assignment #6 Triptych - post this either as one video with the three parts playing on a single channel or if you are able, create a web page that features all three videos next to each other.
Assignment #6 Part II - link to the mixed page featuring the expanded/revised triptych projects.
Final Projects - feature documentation of your final project (embed video, photo documentation, whatever is most appropriate).
#7 Post your two writing assignments/reviews of visiting artist’s lectures and Prospectives.09.
WEB PORTFOLIOS ARE DUE COMPLETED DECEMBER 14, 2010, MIDNIGHT!!!
Easy:
blogger.com
wordpress.com
tumblr.com
flickr.com
(These are all relatively user friendly, with existing templates and designs that you can adapt to fit your work, these do, however, lack in terms of having the flexibility to truly design a personal web portfolio page. If you are just starting out with web publishing, however, these are likely a good place to start!)
More Advanced:
http://www.indexhibit.org/ - downloadable CMS (FANTASTIC web based, portfolio specific web application!)
wordpress.org - downloadable CMS
drupal.org - downloadable CMS
(These require web hosting (ie: siteflip.com), FTP (file transfer protocol), I would also strongly recommend acquiring your own domain address (ie joeblow.com). Hosting and domains are available on the cheap, you can do all of this for just around $30 a year, well worth it for professional designers and artists. If you have web skills beyond the beginner, this is the way to go, you will get here eventually in the Digital Media program. Requires knowledge of how websites work and will again take time to setup. Ultimately much more flexible in terms of setting up your personal portfolio site, thousands of open source codes, plugins, templates, etc.)
