Web 205: Web Career Strategies
Assignment 1: Why This Field? Why? WHY? (and portal page)
"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."
Assignment 2: Your Ideal Job - The resume Draft
"How do I leave my old career behind on paper?"
Leslie is Mary's class Guinea Pig:
- Leslie's First Draft
- Two Column Exercise (What They Want - What I got)
- Mary's final cover letter for Content Management job
It's all about SPIN.
- TEAM experiences - your projects and roles (2 stories)
- GOOD - things you'e done or been rewarded for (2 stories)
- BAD - something that's happened to you and how learned from the experience (2 stories)
- SPECIAL - something unique that you bring to the job or team (2 stories)
- FUTURE - your plans for the future? your goals and aspirations? (2 stories)
Assignment 5: Fabulous Five Portfolio Website links
- Find five great online IT portfolios
- List them on new page and link to sites
- at least one pro sentence about each.
- at least one con sentence description
- About Me (the main page)
- Resume (html page, text file, word doc and pdf versions)
- Portfolio (thumbnail images of your web projects with brief, clear descriptions of the work provided, tools and skills used)
- Contact (a form - no mailto - no personal phone or address information)
- Disclaimer (some simple but clear verbage stating you're not liable for the content or linked materials your client posts to their websites, etc.)
- XHTML compliant code (with a transitional or strict !doctype)
- Consistent Navigation on all pages
"back to top" & redundant " text-navigation" at the bottom of scrolling pages
- Continuity of color & styled pages
- Optimized images
- Page Identification on "interior" pages
- Consider including a Testimonial Page and/or Our Client/Survey Question page, too
