🌱 Internship Portfolio: Project Overview
Objective
Edit several web pages including but not limited to News, People, and Research with up to date information.
Steps
- Draft new versions of selected pages, submit for comments, and apply suggestions before implementation.
- List current areas improvement on the selected pages and brainstorm potential solutions.
- Gather references from other science-focused websites.
- Create wire frames for each proposed layout. Find SEO and accessibility vulnerabilities throughout the site and correct them.
Role
Project developer, designer, and manager working hand in hand with the website owner.
Key tasks
- Identified areas of improvement.
- Brainstormed and designed potential solutions.
- Implemented solutions and made sure they worked using Squarespace’s CMS.
- Followed web design and accessibility and standards.
Outcome
Brand new designs for several pages of the website (including a new header and footer) with the latest info and news. Several design proposals were accepted as-is while others required minimal changes.
Lessons
As a web designer, it is important to respect the intention behind every web page to help it grow. Any change to a page must be in accordance to the core idea behind it.
Methodology
For pages with a whole new layout (ie. People and News pages), Plain text version -> draft layout on Squarespace -> changes to live version. Started with a plain text draft which required zero knowledge of Squarespace’s CMS, before translating the layout to the CMS, and finally, after making sure everything on the page worked and looked pleasant, exchanged the live version with the draft.
Tools
- Pen & Paper
- Excalidraw
- Squarespace CMS
- Squarespace Forums.