Finished Evaluation

Since my last blog I was at the stage of having everything in place and lined up, with a plan to follow. As my original portfolio builder was going to be Squarespace, but I veered away form the bad reviews and lack of customization and decided to go with a new portfolio builder called GetFabrik. This allowed me to follow my Mock flow and Lucid chart as precise as I could. I came into this course knowing nothing about website or portfolio building but now I feel it will play a big part outside of university.

I feel as if I have reached my target and produced a portfolio that I am quite proud of. The design and style is exactly what I was going for, with simple but to the point text, easy to navigate around, as well as straight to the point of viewing my products. The products are shown exactly how I wanted them to look, with a striking image to bring you over to the thumbnail and then the title once you’ve hovered over it. The text and retro style was the only option I didn’t go for in my plan, this was because of my style of logo and ‘neat’ look that my page had, so I felt changing it to a retro look would take away its professional feel, because overall this will be shown to future employers. Get fabric portfolio builder has given me exactly what I wanted, however it was still a difficult progress. 

The way to create my look on Fabrik was something I had to quickly come to terms with. Placing media or changing font wasn’t the hardest part, creating my templates or my about me page was a struggle. The only option I had was to create HTML code’s and make sure I had everything in the right size, I managed to find help in a video and was able to create my about me page on Adobe Dreamweaver. This was the part that I really struggled on, however to create my web pages I used Adobe dreamweaver CS4. To keep a consistent look and feel to the site I used elements defined within the CSS style sheet, the main structure of the page is defined as a 3 column 2 row table with column three divided into 6 rows to make sure that the linked text and images are formatted correctly. the table has row 1 set to ''heading 1'' format text with the other rows using ''paragraph'' format text the border value has been set to 0 to make it invisible and cell padding set quite high (12) to give a feeling of space to the pages. Overall even though my site isn’t the most exciting, I felt as if I didn’t need to much as the main part is to get across who I am and what sort of products I produce, which I feel I have done to a good standard, as I have followed my Mockflow as precisely as I could as well as creating a link to my Tumblr for my blog, this was because the blog option on Fabrik was not the style I wanted, however everything I had down on paper is now on screen.