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Review and Conclusion
This chapter has provided a mix of technical and organizational information that
will help us move along in the Web portfolio development process. Discussion
has included content optimization, Web formats, resolution, and transforming
Microsoft assets into Web accessible graphics and text files.
Setting up folder structures and understanding where files go locally will help
as you create the Web portfolio and publish it to the Internet later on.
Critical attention must be paid to resolution of content. Graphical files must be
72 or 96 dpi maximum to scale. Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia Fireworks
are the premier tools for creating Web graphics. You had a chance in this
chapter to read and hopefully use some basic graphic manipulation tutorials in
both applications as well as learn about the graphic file types used in Web
pages: GIF and JPG. We discussed the advantages of using the portable
document format (PDF) to publish content in its exact native visual appearance
without distortion of fonts or color.
Getting your content together may include digital photography, screen cap-
tures, scanning, and using export and saving techniques in Microsoft Office
products. Regardless of the format, graphics must conform to Web color or
RGB standards to be viewable on the Internet. The size of Web graphics is
critical to formatting Web pages and to visual appearance and communication
effectiveness of Web pages.
Lastly, Web resumes and CVS needs to be output in all formats to be used in
a variety of situations. PDF output is best for keeping visual integrity. HTML
output is linkable and allows fast browser loading from directly inside the Web
site. And a graphical Web resume or CV might be best when the resume is
illustrated or uses color extensively.
Let's move forward in the Web portfolio production cycle and begin to develop
our Web portfolio page designs. The next chapter brings us to laying out Web
pages using Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia Fireworks.
