🧩 Components
Your personal website will have the following components, which will help demonstrate who you are as a person and what you’ve accomplished as a student and/or professional.
Website Sections
- Navigation Bar
- Must contain the home, about me, experience, projects/involvement, resume, and contact me sections as options
- Must have a collapsible menu when the screen is reduced
- Want to add a logo on your nav bar? It must be a png or other photo like file (could be your name)
- Home
- Displays your name, school, and graduation year
- Can have an image that completely fills the screen
- About Me
- Has a summarized description of you (don't make it an essay)
- Displays your interests and passions
- Optional: Image carousel of images of yourself in academic/professional settings
- Experience
- Contains your work experiences in reverse chronological order (most recent first)
- Each experience should include a title, picture, and a description of what you did
- Projects/Involvement
- Contains your projects/involvement and descriptions in reverse chronological order (most recent first)
- Each projects/involvement should include a title, picture, and a description of what you did
- Resume
- This page will link the websites user to a pdf version of your most up to date resume
- Page must open on a separate tab
- Contact Me
- Will be at the very bottom of your website
- Should have your LinkedIn and any other choice of contact you want (email, GitHub, etc.)
Friendly reminders
- Your website does not have to follow our strict requirements! It is simply an outline of what is typically included on professional websites.