With an ever-changing technological and competitive world,
it is important to be savvy and trained. The display of a personal website is a
way to show you are ahead of the typical paper resume, and perhaps ahead of a
lot of your competition. Websites promote yourself by giving you a cutting edge
in the communication world and an easily accessible biography, portfolio, and
contact information for job prospects and clients.
Though a website may be a highlight of your Internet
repertoire, it is important to keep all of your social media accounts
professional as well. The COM 336 social media projects provided a solid
foundation to build a professional social media portfolio. Learning about the
clear and concise language of Twitter allows you effectively display your
promotions, conversations, and ideas while remaining in the 140-character
limit. Operating a Blogger account is practice on sharing your ideas in a more
elaborate manner to anyone interested in your subject manner. Having experience in operating social media
websites professionally now will assist in connecting professionally with
prospects in the future.
Being consistent is a staple in the professional world.
While your website may promote your communication expertise, your social media
pages must match up to the claim. Showing your ability to communicate on
Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, LinkedIn, etc. will prove your skills, and
encourage others to "follow" you on social media, and perhaps get in
contact with you.
Designing a web site is an extremely tedious, yet rewarding
process. The Adobe software Dreamweaver has so much to offer once one learns
how to use it properly. To someone who is not familiar with html, Dreamweaver
provides a "Code and Design" tab so you can see what you are doing on
a split screen, and how your design corresponds with the html.
Having an html base provided to the class was very helpful
in building the website because a lot of students have never encountered a web
design experience before.
Though there was a template already made up, organizing the
content of the website was open for personalization by adding a header photo, a
personal photo, creating our own biography, and organizing our portfolio page.
The portfolio page of your personal website is a part of
your portfolio itself. Organizing the page to develop your websites look is a
key point in displaying your work. If your portfolio page is hard to navigate
and doesn't look clear and concise, there is a possibility that whoever is looking
at it will not be interested in seeing what your work is like.
While on the portfolio page, organizing photographs,
articles, PowerPoints, etc. together by file type, date, or topic helps the
viewer know what they are looking at. Adjusting the height and width of your
tiles allows you to be creative and organized while making your portfolio page.
Learning how to design and navigate files is a tool that
will continue to give back to you as you develop in the professional
communication world.
