IN YOUR (INTER)FACE!

DESIGNING A DIGITAL PORTFOLIO
CHAPTER ELEVEN
DESIGNING A PORTFOLIO INTERFACE



It's not a book, it's not a plane, it's not a bird - ITS A WEBSITE.

Thus you must create an interface that is not in the traditional sense of making a book.

There are many creative ways to make an interface for the audience.
It can be linear or nonlinear, it can have multiple connections from different pages.

Another thing to keep in mind is what your page size is going to be. Will it be vertical? or horizonal? Will it take up the entire page? Or just be a part of it? These are all things that you have to think about before starting your site.

I ran into this issue actually - I made a site that will take up just a portion of the screen and I wanted to find out how to position it not only horizontally - but vertically as well. Turns out no one knows how to vertically align a page out of my group of tech-ie friends. ):

Look and feel also contribute to your interface. Will it look very straight forward and business like? Or will it look more like free thought and expression?

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Link of the week:

STUFF ON MY CAT
What a wonderful site - its updated daily
Basically - its user submitted photos of thier cat with objects on them. Some people have gotten very creative.
There's an entire library of photos on the site now.