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Part 2: Downloading the template and building your ePortfolio

Now that you have set up your Web space, we can move on to creating the html content that will appear on your Web site. The ITRL ePortfolio package is designed to provide anyone, regardless of their technical skills and knowledge, with the ability to create and maintain a professional electronic portfolio on the Web. To accomplish this, the ePortfolio package has been set up as a TEMPLATE. This means that most of the content information has already been structured: all that you have to do is plug in your own information.

The Technical Stuff

Our ePortfolio template consists of a series of linked Web pages, which were constructed using hyper text markup language (html). As a brief explanation, html is essentially the language of the internet; it exists behind the scenes and tells your Web browser what to display on your screen. So, any time that we refer to html in these instructions, we are talking about the programming language that the ePortfolio was created with.

Another important feature we should mention is that the html templates we have provided were constructed using Cascading Style Sheets. This means that the overall content and html markup does not contain ANY information in regards to the STYLE of the Web page. All style information is included in a separate file known as a Style Sheet. The download package contains several Style Sheets that you can choose from to customize the style of your ePortfolio. This may sound confusing right now, but as you begin working with the template you will soon understand the nature and function of a Style Sheet.

 

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