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Building an online presence is more important than ever.
It doesn’t matter if you’re looking for a job, applying to a school or just need a place to share your personal story — how you appear on the web shapes what people think of you.
Why students need a website:
Why students need a website:
an excellent way of standing out & making a mark for yourself as a student.
share your school projects, personal passions, portfolio
demonstrate your technical skills, visual communication skills and understanding of how dynamic content rules the digital age.
HHS Personal Websites:
HHS Personal Websites:
Your personal website is a showcase of your hobbies, goals, achievements & things that make you - You.
Get Started:
Get Started:
Choose Google Sites, or Wix
Consider what you want to include & begin to organize content into categories. These will form your pages & sub-pages.
BRAINSTORM YOUR SITE CONTENT (shoot for AT LEAST 3 PAGES):
Home / Landing Page – this is the “face” of your website. The homepage should have 3 main elements: a title, visual, and a navigation menu.
About ,
Contact
Infographic resume
Personal logo
Photography - sort into genres or themes
Graphic Design
Digital Illustration
Achievements
Compositional Strategies slides (link, embed, download single slides as PNG to flaunt layout skills)
Extra-curricular clubs, music, sports, volunteering
Links to instagram, Pinterest, etc.
Wix comment feature
Customize page headers by creating graphics in other programs (distinctive fonts, custom colors, gradients, elements, etc.) and inserting as png. Basically, design your own word art.
Create buttons & hyperlink text to facilitate user navigation.
Preview your experience variants on multiple devices (Web, Tablet, or Mobile)
Collect peer, parent & teacher feedback! Your site is a garden that always needs tending: pull out the weeds, plant your proudest latest work, update & show off to visitors!
The video introduction gives you an opportunity to tell us more about yourself, in your voice, beyond the information you provided in your application. Sharing a two-minute personal video is a helpful way to show us who you are and why you are interested in attending ______________ .
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