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ow do you want to present your work to readers? How do you achieve this goal textually and visually on your websites? How is having your portfolio online different than merely having a paper folder with three papers in it at the end of the semester? What are the implications of this difference for both you and your audience?

Based on the guidelines posted in the New Handbook, I would have to rank my website at only a fair standing for a portfolio. Starting with my homepage, problems can already be spotted. According to the book, this should be my table of contents, but rather my homepage is more of a welcome mat to the viewer. Although I have the contents of the website placed in the navigation bar on the top of the page, I feel this might not be enough. To modify this, I should add some text to my homepage that talks about me. This text would make the webpage a bit more personal and the viewer would have some background knowledge about me. Perhaps a blurb of two about where I am from, what I am majoring in, and a bit of history about me would spice it up. This changes should raise the bar on the overall homepage.
Continung, another abnormality I noticed with regards to my page was the presentation of my product. Rather than professional cut and clean pages, my site is more upbeat, fun, and spunky. I think that my site should be left like this because you can hear my voice in the work, rather than just looking. To me, it seems more personal and like im talking to the viewer. Fonts in my webpages are all legible and apporpriate, but I chose to deviate from the standard fonts outlined in the book. Delicious fonts go beautify with my vibrant website. I want to present my work as more of a form of art rather than conventional text. I plan to achieve this goal by using the "fun" layout I have selected, vibrant colors, and pictures to pull everything together. Have my portfolio online is different than just three papers because it is MY voice in my own world, rather than just by work. The digital portfolio is more personal. Finally, the audience of the digital portfolio may find the work less formal since the websites are more personal. This is, however, my goal of the website - to make it as if I was physically with the reader.