Below are a couple of my portfolio designs, I’m leaning towards a clean crisp design and definitely want to move away from the current brown portfolio I have going on.
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Project Goals

Below are the project goals for my portfolio website:

• Site to be built using standards compliant XHTML 1.0 strict and CSS Level 2.1 – measurable with validators provided by W3C.
• Site will also use PHP to cut down on unnecessary extra files and code. – Measurable with the inclusion of PHP within the site.
• Site to be easily maintainable through the use of a CMS – measurable by the inclusion of a chosen CMS.
• Site to use semantic and structured code – measurable by using logical structure through both XHTML and CSS, also by non inclusion of empty div’s for styling and other non-semantic practices.
• Site to show my potential to learn new technologies by including an as yet untried [by myself] piece of Javascript – measured with the inclusion of the Javascript.

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Persona One [Potential Employer]

Sally is a recruiting manager from a locally based Web Design company. She is mid thirties and takes home in the region of 25 -30k a year. She surfs the web at work using a high speed broadband connection on a Windows PC with Internet Explorer. She has a couple of social network accounts but thinks uses her mobile mainly to contact friends.
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