Personal Site Starter Information

personal-site-starter.md

Personal Website for a Junior Software Developer

• Demonstrate Front End Skills
• Static site
• Basic HTML/CSS
• Include a style library? Maybe.
• React? Nope.
• Single page is A-OK.
• NO SITE BUILDERS: WordPress, WIX, SquareSpace, etc.

Hosting

• Github Pages https://pages.github.com/
• Great Tutorial https://astrosites.github.io/tutorial/

Include

• Links to linkedIn, GitHub
• Contact info
• Resume or include a link
• Brief `About Me'
• Projects: FrontEnd Capstone, Backend Capstone
• Optional: Group Projects

Good Content

• Use positive words
• Do NOT evaluate or compare your skills:
  • JavaScript 4 out of 5 stars or 85% (what are you comparing to?)
• Highlight your contributions to projects.
• Turn negatives into learning or future opportunities (v1)

Examples

Check out the students' pages (warning, some may not be complete). Also refer to the information from Career Services

• Cohort 47: https://nss-day-cohort-47.github.io/Class-Website/
• Cohort 48: https://nss-day-cohort-48.github.io/
• Cohort 49: https://nss-day-cohort-49.github.io/Class-site/

FEWDD/C#

• Cohort 35: https://nss-day-cohort-35.github.io/website/
• Cohort 43: https://nss-day-cohort-43.github.io/

HTML5 Templates (just a few to get you started)

• https://themefisher.com/best-free-html5-templates/
• https://html5up.net/
• https://themewagon.com/theme-price/free/

HTML Code Extras

• https://freefrontend.com/html-code-examples/