Class:MFA Illustration 2023/Week 24

Last Week

• Final personal branding review & hand off
• Introduction to website project

This Week

• Review Illustration website submissions
• Discuss the process and primary objective of the website project

Notes

The Illustration web links you brought in & we reviewed

• Illustration Links MFAI c/o 2025

Critical reference pages for you

• Hosting Providers
• Squarespace Best Practices

Techniques for batch processing images

• How to create a Photoshop Action and run it on 1000 photos

Assignment

It is now time to begin fearlessly exploring a handful of website options and variations!

• If you have a website already, go look at it! What do you want to change? Does it look like the rest of your self-promotion work? Do you need to change the way you are curating or organizing your work?
• Gather up a fresh set of images that loosely represent the type of work you will have on your website.
• Study up on Cargo Collective, Adobe Portfolio, Squarespace, Weebly, Wix, and Format. You can trial all of these for free before you make them actual live websites with real domains.
• Explore the themes available to you on all these services and try TWO different explorations.

Clarification: You can try two or three different themes on SquareSpace, you can try one theme on Cargo Collective and one theme on Wix (for example).

I expect that you will lean into different systems/themes and see if they work for you. I expect you to gather up the info and descriptions for the project on your website. I expect you to make wonderful about/contact pages.

Then:

1. Gather up TWO demo links and passwords or present in class.
2. Use this link chop.is/2025-web-submit-1 to submit your work
3. Be prepared to show your two explorations in class next week, you will present from the computer so you need a slide deck or presentation.