website quandry
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This is my "craft" I've been working on for the past couple of days. I've been having a "working holiday" this Spring break. I never seem to have the time to research websites etc, but feel like lately its hurt my job prospects not to have an online portfolio. After some frustration, I just dove into it.
What I do not have access to:
Dreamweaver
A web consultant (ones I found wanted $50/mo for 5 pages, not realistic for me, and friends are either busy or have no more experience than i have)
What I did have:
html coding leftover from a course I took. In this course, a grad assistant more or less went over basic, basic html coding (although completely brilliant, he was self-taught and knew the basics as well, while the instructor of record knew even less). I thank my grad assistant profusely, but remain fairly ignorant beyond his sage words of wisdom. My notes were not specific enough and I don't remember much to change format beyond very basic things. I've used the templates I created for myself and been doing a lot of cut-and-paste. With the assistance of geocities, I've occasionally been able to create pieces of new code. However, I found their "create a page" to be very limiting and extremely frustrating, so I've used it very little. With my resume, for instance, I still have bugs to work out with formatting and spacing (saved a word doc into a website and tinkered so there is a lot of it transferred over that i have no idea about), but most of the site is there. Some of the code may be ugly :]
geocities. I needed to be able to experiment with sites without an upfront cost. So free website. With enough space to actually do something. I also wanted to get a more polished or complex look, I didn't want the site to look as amateur as some basic/free formats are. I may eventually upgrade to get rid of the ad-sidebar, but at least here I could paste in html with ease.
photoshop. to help format pictures and info to paste in. I tried at first to do my resume here, to save it as a picture image, but it had even worse translation problems with formatting than just saving word to web.
website: http://geocities.com/erinbdougherty@rocketmail.com
My question... (I'm NOT selling anything, beyond myself, I guess)what kind of impression does this give you? Is it easily navigated? Is it professional enough? Are there things in there that don't "sell" as well or don't seem up to the level of other things? I'm a Costume Designer, to give you context.
There are a few dead links, esp. in produced works, where I still am filling in the blanks, so I'm more interested in structure and impression than strength of content, i guess.
As always, if this is an inappropriate place to post, let me know.
What I do not have access to:
Dreamweaver
A web consultant (ones I found wanted $50/mo for 5 pages, not realistic for me, and friends are either busy or have no more experience than i have)
What I did have:
html coding leftover from a course I took. In this course, a grad assistant more or less went over basic, basic html coding (although completely brilliant, he was self-taught and knew the basics as well, while the instructor of record knew even less). I thank my grad assistant profusely, but remain fairly ignorant beyond his sage words of wisdom. My notes were not specific enough and I don't remember much to change format beyond very basic things. I've used the templates I created for myself and been doing a lot of cut-and-paste. With the assistance of geocities, I've occasionally been able to create pieces of new code. However, I found their "create a page" to be very limiting and extremely frustrating, so I've used it very little. With my resume, for instance, I still have bugs to work out with formatting and spacing (saved a word doc into a website and tinkered so there is a lot of it transferred over that i have no idea about), but most of the site is there. Some of the code may be ugly :]
geocities. I needed to be able to experiment with sites without an upfront cost. So free website. With enough space to actually do something. I also wanted to get a more polished or complex look, I didn't want the site to look as amateur as some basic/free formats are. I may eventually upgrade to get rid of the ad-sidebar, but at least here I could paste in html with ease.
photoshop. to help format pictures and info to paste in. I tried at first to do my resume here, to save it as a picture image, but it had even worse translation problems with formatting than just saving word to web.
website: http://geocities.com/erinbdougherty@rocketmail.com
My question... (I'm NOT selling anything, beyond myself, I guess)what kind of impression does this give you? Is it easily navigated? Is it professional enough? Are there things in there that don't "sell" as well or don't seem up to the level of other things? I'm a Costume Designer, to give you context.
There are a few dead links, esp. in produced works, where I still am filling in the blanks, so I'm more interested in structure and impression than strength of content, i guess.
As always, if this is an inappropriate place to post, let me know.