I’m a nerd. A serious nerd. I’m so nerdy I will stay up past midnight on a Friday working on a web site.

I recently attempted to [re]design my online portfolio. 

My last semester of graduate school I spent an entire semester developing, organizing, and synthesizing  to articulate a professional identity and design a web space to present my work from the last three years. I was pleased and proud of the result. That was then.

Despite the long hours and tremendous thought I put into the portfolio, somehow that representation of my work was no longer accurate or adequate for my current professional needs. I’ve been in the workforce for two years now and the way that I think about my work has changed.  

About the time I started to realize all of this (a year or so into my job) I took down my online portfolio. I was embarrassed of the pink and grey color scheme and the table-based web design — certainly this was not the way I wanted to represent myself. At that time I was not ready to invest the amount of work needed to make the changes. So for at least a year, I had no web presence at all. (more…)