Hi all. Tuesday’s class exposed me to how un-intuitive SquareSpace 7’s interface is. But after working with Ashley, Ricky, Brooke, and Matt, I think I have a handle on how to use it. Today I want to show you two different ways of setting up a portfolio.
CopyLeft, Creative Commons, and Intellectual Property
While prepping for class today, I came across an article discussing SoundCloud and its recent anti-piracy system. I wanted to take a few minutes to talk about the importance of copyleft, an open source response to the drastically increased copyright legislation Congress has supported over the past few decades. And I want to highlight Lawrence Lessig’s Creative Commons project.
Two Ways to Set Up a Portfolio in SquareSpace
The first way involves setting up a content collection and then creating a summary list or a grid
. The second way involves manipulating text blocks. Let’s look at both of these in practice.
As we move toward the end of class, I wanted to review my expectations for your final website.
- Some kind of bio or about page.
- A portfolio that:
- includes images of your work. For text-based work, this could be a screenshot of the work in Word. For audio projects, this could be a screen shot of the audacity file.
- Descriptions of the work that provide some context (who, what, where, when, why, etc) and highlight key successes.
- Whenever possible, contains links to the work or to download the work.
Remember to that we want these sites to be visually impressive. The sophistication and design of the site, the care you put into the small details, says as much about the quality of your work as the work you post there itself. Sweat the small stuff.
