Project: Portfolio

If you've completed the Planning Phase, then you have a good idea of the site's Information Architecture. Now you need to develop and expand on these ideas by creating or gathering the content.

Phase 2: Content

Readings:

• Smashing Magazine: A Comprehensive Website Planning Guide (Part 1). The whole article is worth reading sometime, but start halfway down in the section called "Needs Assessment." This will talk you through some basic principles of branding guidelines.
• Usability.gov: Content Strategy. Some best practices for sites of all sizes to create meaningful and relevant content.
• Usability.gov: Writing For The Web. Tips for writing your content specifically for a web audience.

Time to write our content! You'll create a text file for each of the pages you defined in the planning phase and fill out that page with content. You'll write all the text you need, create or gather any other assets like images or graphs, and put it all inside these files.

Note: you aren't creating HTML files. You can't mark up your content if you don't have it yet. So split up the problems and focus on one at a time.

Setup

Follow this article to set up your repository. It's incredibly important that you follow their directions or else your project will not be deployed properly!

Requirements

1. Each page should have all of its content prepared.
2. The content should reflect the purpose of the site, defined in the previous phase.
3. It should be written in plain text or very simple Markdown, no HTML.
4. You need to commit the content to the GitHub repository and organize it according to your plan.

Do not start coding yet! We'll review the content together in groups and you must be approved before moving on to the next step.