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WIX Guide for e-Portfolios

CAHS 4500 Portfolio Presentation for Apparel Designers

Dr. Veena Chattaraman & Eloise Faber Department of Consumer Affairs Auburn University

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GUIDE TO CREATING A WEB PORTFOLIO

Planning

Before you begin creating your website, decide how you want to present your portfolio. Decide what the overall aesthetic will be and what components you want and need to incorporate into the website. Things needed before creation of the website:

? Four portfolio projects edited and ready for final submission before you can use them for your web portfolio.

? Logo ? Resume ? Design aesthetic/ about me ? Photography ? Inspiration images Decide how many tabs you will need on your website. Below are the minimum tabs you need for your website: ? Home ? About ? Portfolio ? Contact Other tabs you want to add to your website later: ? Photography ? Additional Projects ? Honors, Awards, or Competitions

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Initial Steps

is a flash based website for website building. If a website is run on flash, it will not work on cellular phones with web capabilities. There is a way to make a version of your final web portfolio compatible with cellular phones on Wix. Wix is good for students, artists, and businesses. Some of the templates are ecommerce enabled for small businesses. The templates range in complexity and difficulty. For your first web portfolio it is recommended to use a simple template provided by Wix and then add to it later. This demo will guide you through the fundamental tasks required to create a web portfolio.

Before creating your own website from the templates available on , you must create an account.

1. Go to 2. Create a new account

? 1. Click Login/Sign-Up in the top right corner of the home page ? 2. A box will appear in the middle of the page. ? 3. Click on the tab that says "Sign Up!"

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2 ? The email address that you pick will be incorporated into the URL address

for your website. So please choose something that is easy to spell, appropriate, and represents and refers back to you. Example: email address: jane_smith@ = jane_smith

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3. Select a template. ? "Explore" the templates provided on

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? Click through the different templates to see what others have done and what Wix has to offer. "Beauty and Fashion" is an appropriate one to start looking at for inspiration.

4. After looking through some templates go to the "Create" tab to begin creating your web portfolio. ? Click on the tab "Create" at the top of the web page.

? Click on the "2 min Demo" on the right side of the web page. Watch the demo to get an idea of the some of the basic functions of a wix website.

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Creating a Website

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In order to demonstrate how to use the functions of Wix, we will use a popular template for designers. "Photo Focus" is a good template because it is clean, simple, but aesthetically pleasing and easily customized.

? Click on "Photo Focus" Template and click on "edit"

When you come to some of the templates, the template will be on "WixEXPRESS". You do not want to create your website on this setting. It is better for experienced users who are maintaining their website. You want to create your website in the "Editor" setting. Click on "Go to Editor"

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Uploading Pictures

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It is easier to upload your jpeg images in the beginning so when you are changing pictures or managing a gallery, your images are already uploaded to Wix. You can always upload images and files at any time during creating and editing. Portfolio project pages/boards need to be saved as .jpeg files in order to upload them to to use in a gallery.

? Scroll over the "Add" tab and click on "Pics"

? Click "Upload" to choose pictures, jpeg files, and png files.

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Logo Uploading

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Save your logo as a PNG file before uploading it to . Then you can use it as an image on the website on the pages without an extra background on the logo.

Text

Changing Text: ? Practice changing the name (Matt Whitby Photography) to your own by clicking on the name and selecting "edit" and typing your name. ? When you click "edit" a text toolbox will appear at the top of the web page. You can change the font, size, color, and style.

Creating New Text ? Scroll over "Add" "Text" "Title" or "Paragraph"

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Changing a Picture

? Click on the picture click "Change Photo"

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? A box will appear with options to pick pictures from your "My pixs", "wix files", or "Community". Click on "My Pixs". Chose a picture. (Note. "My Pixs" are jpeg or png files that you upload to the site).

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