Week Eight - Review of Design and Color, Becoming an Online Professional

Websites You Should Know

Nameplate Websites

These are sites that can act as a virtual resume - anyone Googling you will get a splash page with your resume and accomplishments:

About.me - https://about.me/
About.me is free, and the page designs highlight a single image that you can select from a gallery or a photo of yourself or your work that you can upload. You can then fill in information about yourself around the image, including a short bio, links to your social networks, other blogs, or even your professional portfolio. The page designer is easy to use, and even the advanced tools don't need a lot of experience to get a handle on, and within minutes you'll have a great-looking nameplate for yourself. Plus, you get analytics, so you can see how many people are visiting, and About.me even partners with other companies to offer perks, like business cards from Moo and email services.


Zerply - http://zerply.com/

Zerply's approach to a professional landing page focuses on the professional. Your landing page looks and behaves like a resume, complete with your work history in chronological order, along with a short bio at the top.  It's  a fast and free way to build a web-based resume you can link anyone to, and a social network you can join that will help you connect with other people looking for candidates who do what you do. You, on the other hand, have the ability to connect with and contact other professionals in your field or in your area, and share your profile with them. Plus, it's completely free.

Re.vu - http://re.vu/

Re.vu is as a fun, web-based resume alternative that's also a sharp looking landing page that you can invite anyone to see. Re.vu is free, and will automatically create a profile for you if you connect our LinkedIn account. It will pull in your work history, current position, credentials, and recommendations, and then let you fill in the rest or connect other social networks or websites. Then, when you're finished, you can even tell Re.vu to let visitors download a copy of your resume if you want to offer one. Once you're all set up, you can see how many people visited your profile and how many people clicked through with detailed analytics to help you understand if the page is making the impact you want.

Actual Business Cards

Moo - http://us.moo.com/products/business-cards.html?gclid=CNzihsCEg7MCFc2d4AodJhoAvw

Can create great cards free!  Also:

Vistaprint - http://www.vistaprint.com

Professional Social Networking:

Linked In - http://www.linkedin.com/

Digital Portfolios and Website Builders

blogspot - http://www.blogger.com/home#create

easy to use, and connects with google

Wix - http://www.wix.com/

Creates professional looking flash websites

Homework:

Store Project  - Due Oct. 22

You will create four designs for the store that you have chosen.  

You may choose to draw them as flats or as design drawings on a croquis. 
 - they should be clean and clear. Use the flat croquis!
 - they should be in color with no visible pencil
 - all construction details (seams, buttons etc) should be clear.

You must create a color story for your collection.  Draw(color) swatch squares in your colors.
 - The colors should relate to your store's current season
 - You should be able to tell me what kind of color story it is (monochromatic, complimentary, etc)
 - You should give your colors evocative names!

Online Professional - Due Oct. 22

Choose a format for an online portfolio and begin formatting it. 

Write a single paragraph about yourself as an introduction. Talk a little about your background and what you are looking for in a career. This should be typed and ready to hand in. 

Reading:

There is no reading assignment this week, but you should explore the web resources listed above. 
Think about how you can use each of them.

We are going to use them eventually, so if you want to get started with any of them, feel free!