View source for Class:MFA Illustration 2020/Week 23

== Last Week ==

* Catch up on any lingering website domain or email address setup.
* Review the last set of personal identity updates and your 'one more thing' projects.
* Brief introduction to the website project and discussion of your plan.

== This Week ==

* Tip: Optimizing & compressing your images
* Tip: Prepping your projects for printing
* Website exploration overview tips, assignment & questions

== Open Questions ==

== Notes ==

=== Subsection ===

== Video Notes ==

<!-- *[http://assets.choppingblock.com.s3.amazonaws.com/video/screencast/20170522_MPS_DP_01_PortfolioReviewAndPinboard.mp4 Review Photography portfolios and adding them to the pinboard link above] -->
*[http://assets.choppingblock.com.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/video/screencast/20210405_MFAI_01_OptimizingAndCompressingYourImagesForOnlineConsumption.mp4 Optimizing & compressing your images for online consumption]
*[http://assets.choppingblock.com.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/video/screencast/20210405_MFAI_02_PreppingYourProjectsForPrintingAndDelivery.mp4 Prepping your projects for printing & delivery]
*[http://assets.choppingblock.com.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/video/screencast/20210405_MFAI_03_WebsiteExplorationOverviewTipsAssignmentAndQuestions.mp4 Website exploration overview tips, assignment & questions]
*[http://assets.choppingblock.com.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/video/screencast/20210405_MFAI_ZoomRecording.mp4 Zoom recording from class on April 5th, 2021]

== Assignment ==

=== Part 1 ===

Email me your written website plan if you have not! Look at [https://wiki.mfaillustration.com/index.php?title=Class:MFA_Illustration_2020/Week_22 last week's assignment].

=== Part 2 ===

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 [http://cargocollective.com Cargo Collective], [http://www.myportfolio.com/ Adobe Portfolio], [http://squarespace.com Squarespace], [http://weebly.com Weebly], [http://wix.com Wix], and [http://format.com 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:'''
# Bring to class '''TWO or THREE''' demo links and passwords or present them from your own computer.
# Be prepared to show your two explorations in class next week.