Information Technology Reference
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your inspirations as a professional. You can present links to research or to your
institution. Links can go to organizations and societies of which you are a
member. You might link to student Web sites or sites of other colleagues. All
text-based content is editable and may need updating when content changes.
It is important to have HTML based text in your Web portfolio. This will allow
search engines to find your site easier than if no HTML text existed and all
navigation and text components were made of graphics. Plan to have HTML
text in your Web site. Using all graphical text will create difficult revisions later
on in the life span of the Web portfolio. Things that change often must be HTML
text. An example of this would be a résumé presented on a Web portfolio. The
resume will change and the author will need to change the text over and over
again. Keeping it flexible will be critical to making on-demand updates. Now
that you understand the types of content a bit more, let us move forward and
start to develop a content list.
Create Your Content List
The content list breaks down assets into a list consisting of all the content
pieces. These are things that you expect to put into the Web portfolio based on
the concept statement. The pieces must be created, developed, recorded,
animated, and then collected for arrangement into a hierarchical structured
outline. This structure will be the skeleton of the Web portfolio. The Web
portfolio should be content rich. When the content becomes massive, it is hard
to manage. The task of keeping track of everything that will go into the portfolio
is simplified with asset organization. Confusion and mistakes are lessened by
following a structure.
Now it is time to create your detailed content list. In this stage, you write down
all of the tangible assets that you will need to gather, write, create, or design.
This allows you to begin to see the scope and volume that your content will
represent. Also, you can begin to get a sense of impact your Web portfolio will
have on the user. The user wants content. You want to engage and persuade
the user. Are you giving them content? Will the content persuade them to act
accordingly in your desired goals? The content list will provide some justifica-
tion to these questions.
Making a content list is an important task in the Web portfolio development
process. It requires you to brainstorm and list every asset and text piece into
