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A professional portfolio is a valuable tool that can help you apply for jobs and network with other people in your field. This kind of portfolio is a collection of examples of your work. While portfolios are useful in a wide variety of professions, they are especially valuable for people who work in fields requiring skills in communication and creativity, such as journalists, technical writers, web designers, and graphic artists. While a hard-copy portfolio is especially helpful when you have an in-person job interview, an online portfolio allows you to show your work to anyone with access to the Internet. An online portfolio allows you to showcase your professionalism and to stand out from other job seekers. Software makes it easy to update your portfolio to show new examples of your work and to reflect your ongoing development in your profession. If your portfolio has examples of work you have been paid to do for a company, always get written permission to use it in your portfolio. Such work is the company's property, not yours. Follow any non-disclosure agreements you have signed. In some cases, you might choose to include selected parts of a document in your online portfolio rather than an entire document that someone could copy. The work in this portfolio was created by Blane C. Holden. As his résumé shows, Blane worked for many years as a programmer before switching his focus to technical communication. This portfolio contains several documents showing Blane's technical-communication skills.
Evaluate the design of the portfolio's home page. What are the strengths and weaknesses of this design?
Why do you think the link to the résumé is placed at the top of the navigation menu, just under the link to the home page?
What is the purpose of including thumbnail images of documents on each page of the portfolio? Why not send users directly to the full-size documents or put the images somewhere else?
What is the purpose of including descriptions of each of the documents in the portfolio? What value do these descriptions add to the portfolio?