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The digital portfolio book has been an interesting read. It's always interesting to learn what the experts think you should do to better promote yourself. I didn't quite follow the directions in the book that closely but as I begin to redesign my website, I think I'll be paying attention to some of the tips that Cynthia Baron gives designers in chapter 10. Since I'm striving for uniformity in my website pages, I like what Baron says about color palettes (limit it), limitting page sizes so visitors don't have to scroll and placing elements like captions, thumbnails at the same place on every page.

I thought the portfolio class today was great because when you get 9 or more people saying they like a certain piece, it's pretty obvious that it's a pretty good portfolio contender. What is is even more interesting to me are the pieces that were popular. I think I'm a pretty fair judge of my work and I felt validated that some of the pieces I thought were my strongest were also the ones that were consistently in the top three. But there were a few surprises that I'll be looking into further.
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