Websites and Selfless Promotion

   The public relations field is not one of the easier fields to get into. The jobs available are limited and only the best of the best are asked to join the better public relations firms. Thats why anything that a person can do to set themselves a part is important, and if there is any way possible to make the job easier of reviewing you for an opening you make it.
   Showing off that you can coherently design a working website that at the same time shows off your works can add a big boost to your portfolio.  You show some design skills, you show that you know the time and effort it can take to make a website, and your making it easier for potential employers to locate you and your works.
  The process of designing a website is comparable to NASA's first mission to land a man on the moon. Dreamweaver was a pleasant surprise though because it worked the way it was supposed to (a majority of the time) and the design screen must make the life of a website designer much easier. The coding part might as well been in another language. Even the slightest mis step in coding can cause an hours worth of back tracking and trying to figure out what went wrong. Trying to keep some form of continuity was also a challenge at times. Getting the header and footer to be the same on each page was the hardest part. The length and spacing was never the same, and somewhere during other editing of coding some coding for the footer was deleted and had to be re created.
  Not every problem was impossible to solve. Sometimes all it took was a little copy and pasting work and everything lined up nicely. Tedious is probably the best word that describes building a website. Making a simple piece of a written Word document show up was even a bit difficult in its own way. You had to create a pdf file and a jpeg all just to show off one simple Word piece.
  The other major benefit of having a website to show employers is the ability to have all of your work in one place. Social media work like a professional Twitter or Facebook page cannot be shown in a traditional manner. You can't show up to a job interview with nothing but screenshots of your work in a traditional portfolio.
   The website also shows that you have an understanding that most things are connected. It gives off the appearance that you know how important it is to have Twitter account, Facebook account etc.., and that it is important that all of these accounts interact together. When the accounts all interact the better chance you have of a message being received and understood successfully.  
  The key factor in this entire project was the ability to show you can be organized and thorough. All the files and documents needed to be uploaded and put into the exact right place or they simply wouldn't upload or open correctly. It was worth it in the end though because it is special to be able to go into an interview and know that you've got this professional looking site in your back pocket.