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This week, we will cover website Linkedin for promoting yourself. We will also be discussion options for hosting for your portfolio. While the wcet site is wonderful for our usage in this course, it will unfortunately not be available to you once your graduate. In this vein, finding good, reliable hosting that suits your needs is important. Furthermore, having a domain named after yourself or your business to present your work is infinitely more professional looking than having a hosted domain name on another company’s website.
- Determine the online location where your portfolio will be hosted
- Optimize your LinkedIn profile
- Network with others in the class
- To be completed
To be completed:
- Review this week’s links
- Complete the this week’s assignment
- Participate in this week’s discussion
- Continue working on your blog
- Continue working on your final project
L12 | Discussion Board
After this class is over, you will unfortunately no longer have access the school’s server. This means you will need to host your site with an external service. With this in mind, part of your final project will be to have your site uploaded to an external hosting service. Go online and research the options available for Web hosting. Choose a company that fulfills your requirements (be they technical, economical, etc.) and a specific hosting package you are interested in (you are welcome to, but not required to sign up with them at this time).
Paste a link to the site and/or package that works for you in hosting your site and describe the reason you chose it. Describe the criteria you used in both searching for and determining your choice as the best one out there for you. Remember to consider all your technical requirements if your are using advanced Web programming that requires php, a database server, or the like. While free hosting is certainly an available option for this assignment, remember that your final project will be graded on its professionalism. If the hosting site adds advertisement or appends its own name to your domain name, this will be considered in your final grade.
L12 | Assignment
- Go to LinkedIn (Opens in new window) URL: https://www.linkedin.com/ and create an account if you don’t already have one.
- Follow the guides and suggestions in the linked documentation above to optimize your portfolio to be the best representation of you possible.
- Be sure to complete your profile to the best of your abilities, including your relevant work and educational experience.
- Post your LinkedIn profile in the discussion area with a brief description of your additions / changes.
- Reply to and make LinkedIn connections with at least two others in the class.