Suggested Reading Designing a Digital Portfolio

• Ch. 7 & 8

Analyse Production Tools

• Review the available production classes and tools from the list below or any other tool of your choice.
• Identify at least 3 tools that interest you. They may be from any combination of production classes.
• Write an analysis identifying the pros and cons of the 3 tools of your choice.
• Address the following for each tool:
  • General Description of the tool
  • Cost
  • Ease of use
  • Available features
  • other Pros/Cons
  • Screenshot of one example site
• Write this as a product review. Your audience is anyone on the web interested in knowing more about these tools for the production of digital portfolios.
• Minimum 750 words, include at least three images and three hyperlinks to related articles or supporting information.
• Post to this course site. Categorize with “Tool Reviews”.

Multimedia Resumes

• Apojigo – http://www.apojigo.com/
• VisualCV – http://www.visualcv.com/

Portfolio Communities

• Artician – http://www.artician.com
• Behance – http://www.behance.net/
• Coroflot – http://www.coroflot.com

Website Builders

• BaseKit – http://www.basekit.com/
• Big Black Bag – http://www.bigblackbag.com/
• CarbonMade – http://www.carbonmade.com/
• Cargo Collective – http://www.cargocollective.com/
• Deviant Art Portfolio – http://portfolio.deviantart.com/
• IM Creator – http://i-m.co/
• Moonfruit – http://www.moonfruit.com
• Other People’s Pixels – http://otherpeoplespixels.com/
• PhotoBiz – http://www.photobiz.com/webtemplates.cfm
• ProSite – http://www.behance.net/prosite
• SquareSpace – http://www.squarespace.com/
• Wix – http://www.wix.com/
• Zenfolio – http://www.zenfolio.com/

Social Networking

• Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/
• Flavors – http://flavors.me/
• Flickr – http://www.flickr.com/
• LinkedIn – http://www.linkedin.com/
• Ning – http://www.ning.com

Blogs

• Blogger – http://www.blogger.com/
• Tumblr – http://www.tumblr.com/
• WordPress – http://www.wordpress.com

Content Management Systems (CMS)

• Drupal – http://www.drupal.org/
• WordPress – http://www.wordpress.org
• Joomla – http://www.joomla.org/

Desktop Web Design Applications

• Adobe Muse (Mac & Windows) – http://muse.adobe.com/
• Adobe Dreamweaver (Mac & Windows) – http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/
• Microsoft Expression Web (Windows) – http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/StudioWebPro_Overview.aspx
• RapidWeaver (Mac) – http://www.realmacsoftware.com/rapidweaver/

Desktop Multimedia Design Applications

• Adobe Flash (Mac & Windows) – http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/