The portfolio in which I created is something that I am very happy with. I came into this class not expecting to see any html or to even learn about Cascading Style Sheets. Ironically, however, when I did, I began to freak out! My husband kept reassuring me that it was easy and that I would get the hang of it in no time. I have made my blog portfolio refined. More refined than my main blog. It took lots of Google searches, bothering my husband, patience and critical thinking however, I think that I did myself justice in the end. The blog portfolio in which I have designed is simple. The font/typography is large and bold. I utilized the marquee "moving banner" formula on my main showcase portfolio blog which I feel makes it more appealing.

The few pieces in which I incorporated into my portfolio were samples of my main blog on New Age Love and Technology as well as samples from our typography assignment, my piece entitled Innocence Lost. Thus, lastly, I also included the ghost picture because I'm a sucker for the supernatural and I really enjoyed creating that piece in adobe photo shop. This call has opened my mind to a lot of computer/technical areas in which I would never have explore on my own. I think that this class would do wonders for inner city kids who do not have a chance to even come close to experiencing this. SO IF YOU CAN READ THIS PROFESSOR WHALEN, think about volunteering in a local inner city school--it would be rewarding! Also, my blog portfolio is fun and easy on the eyes. The tabs are located in the upper right hand corner, with my works cited to the immediate left. I made sure to make the font big and nice so that when other persons visit my blog they won't have to strain their eyes.

I feel that I achieved most of my goals especially the goals that dealt with the type of content I wanted in my blog. I should have blogged more often though. I assumed the CSS would be easy which it wasn't but felt I learned a considerable amount in the time given. If I had to do it all over again I would blog about something more people can relate to. I would give myself a B.

I stuck with my topic & I did well with it-I ended up posting 1x/week as I realized how long & detailed my entries were getting. My goal was to come up with a blog that I could have fun with & continue post-graduation. Goal: achieved. I was honestly scared coming in to this class with all the new things to try, but it turned out to be a great experience. I'd give myself a B+/A.

Looking back at my proposal I would say that I accomplished everything that I wanted to. The only difference I would make is I would pick a different topic. I enjoyed my topic but I would have liked to do something I did not know much about and learn about it. Considering the effort I put into my blog and into CSS and how the final product came out I think my blog is A- work

In order to create my digital identity I decided to revamp my website by changing the theme. The old theme I created using CSS was a little overwhelming and now the website looks much cleaner and more put together. The background now has only a little decoration, rather than the reoccurring picture I chose to use before. I kept the word choice simple to allow a variety of viewers to read my blog. I also chose to keep the topics acceptable to all ages to broaden the number of viewers that look at my website.
Rather than including an addition webpage on photos, I decided to include an environmental topic of concern, giving the reader insight into some of my interests. Therefore, from the links I’ve included the reader can identify that I have an interest in history and the environment. I decided to keep the home page simple in the hopes that people will search the rest of my page. I included a little bit of information about myself and my typography project which sums up the theme of my blog. The simple format and writing style I chose to use makes the page much more navigable and open to a variety of readers.

http://justinemc.com/

http://mwilkerson.net/

To begin transforming my website into the final, portfolio form, I stared by creating a new UMW blog. The one I used for blogging about work was still very messed up from where I played with the CSS code. I picked a simple blog theme, one with a nice wide banner that I could replace with my own banner. As the title of my portfolio is “where do we go from here?” I used a photo I took of my shoes one day to crop and create the banner, it looks quite cool. Then I had to adjust the fonts. I wanted something interesting with serifs for the title, and settled on Batang, a font I’d never used before. For the headings of entries I wanted something a little more artistic and playful looking, and so used Freestyle Script. I also adjusted the font size and color on a few minor things.
It was a little difficult picking the tone for the text of my portfolio. I did not want to go with a very serious style and tone; I wanted to go with an honest and less formal one. I am inviting anyone who sees this site to view some of what I have accomplished in my four years at Mary Washington, and comment if they wish. Picking the content was the easiest part of the project—I wanted a piece of work from each of my major interests. I tried to achieve a sense of balance by including an equal number of text versus image content. I am proud of my work and my portfolio, so please check it out!

This blog has been a fantastic learning experience. That said, it's honestly been a rough ride. Finding a themed topic proved a far bigger challenge than I anticipated, but it's given me some great ideas for things to blog about in the future. If i were to give myself a grade, I'd give myself a C for the content of my blog, but an A for the amount I've learned from my mistakes.

I chose to change the appearance of my home page and re-map my domain name to this one, but I still kept the design that I had made for my blog. I redirected my rhythmandpoetry blog into the new page that I created and made sure that once someone was in my blog that they would still be able to be redirected back to the correct home page and to my other pages. I added a little bit about myself such as my major and the direction I want to go with my degree once I obtain it. I also created a new page with my recently updated resume. Since I changed the appearance of my new blog I had to go back and update my web essay to make it fit better with the new appearance. What took the longest time for me to do was re-mapping and redirecting everything to its correct place. But overall I really like how MY DIGITAL IDENTITY turned out.

I'm really happy with my final portfolio! I was able to achieve about 95% of the things that I wanted to. I ended up creating another UMW blogs account and sort of started over. I chose the theme Sea Shore to start with and made a lot of changes from there. The main page is a little biography of myself along with the purpose of the portfolio. I ended up including all of my projects. For each of them I added a tab at the top of the page. At first I had trouble linking some of them to their appropriate tabs but eventually got it. For my blog and web essay I redirected them to my portfolio so I was able to keep the original layouts of those. The only thing that gave me trouble were the widgets that came with my theme. I couldn't figure out how to make those go away.
For each project that I put up I added in a little description of what the instructions were. I also included which ones were my favorite and why I chose the images that I did. The webpage itself is definitely pleasing to the eye, which was one of my main concerns when I was combining all of the different colors. Overall, I'm extremely satisfied with how my portfolio turned out. Here's the link

http://nicole-cummings.com/