- Part of becoming a marketable developer is knowing how to show off your work and making it easy for people to find you. You should keep a regularly updated personal portfolio website, which you’ll start building today!
- Just as you did with the Super Stellar website, take ~ 5 minutes to research what makes a great personal website.
- Build out your wireframes (desktop and mobile).
- You do not need to make a single page site! Feel free to have your content in separate files and have links to them on your homepage.
- Your website should have:
- A short bio of who you are (“About”)
- Your skills and expertise (not just related to coding!)
- A portfolio of your work with at least three previous projects you’ve made during the SI (GitHub repos and/or hosted sites)
- Include an image, title, and description for each
- Anything else you want to put!
- This is a work in progress, and it's okay if you don't have a lot to talk about right now.
- This is a perfect place to TELL YOUR STORY!
- Where are you from?
- What do you enjoy doing? Why do you enjoy it?
- What’s your family like? What was life like growing up? What have you been through?
- What do you want to do or where do you want to go in the near future? In the distant future? Why?
- Consider what cool designs, colors, images and other elements resonate with you how you might include them in your website.
- You do NOT need your instructor's approval here, however, it’s beneficial to you to ask for their advice and input.
- Once you feel comfortable with your wireframes, use command line to create a new project folder called “personalSite”
- Navigate into the folder and create your “index.html” file and the remaining filesystem.
- Keep in mind:
- Use real content, not placeholder content!
- It’s OK to use placeholders to get started, but remember to replace it with real information afterwards
- The website should be properly hosted on GitHub
- The website should be responsive and work well on a mobile device.
- The target device is iPhone5 (320x568)
- Make sure to test your website for smaller devices using Chrome Dev Tools (
Ctrl + Shift + I)
- Use real content, not placeholder content!
- This is a MILESTONE project This project will NOT be graded. It is simply used to gauge how our students are doing during the SI. Check out this rubric for more details.
- Have fun making your site!
- You don't want people leaving your site. Make your links open in a new window.
- Many of the p5 projects we made were not properly hosted. However, if you have GitHub host them, you can send users to them directly to play and interact with.