You may have a personal portfolio website for a number of reasons. If you're a freelancer, then you'd need one to showcase your work and allow people to contact you. For a student (or unemployed), the portfolio can be used to show your work to prospective employers. If you're part of a studio, then you might use one to blog about your design life, show people what you're doing and build your online presence. A personal portfolio website is all about promoting you. You are a brand, and your name is a brand name. No one is going to know about your brand unless you get it out there; and if you're a Web designer, developer, writer, gamer etc, then it's essential that you have a good portfolio website. Getting Web Server Account on CSU Web Servers Do these steps early, if you have difficulties accessing the Web Server contact Student Central in the first instance. If you can't resolve problems quickly, contact your Subject Coordinator as soon as possible. 1. Go to the web site http://www.csu.edu.au/webpublishing/personal.htm 2. Go to "Students? Your personal publishing information is "here" link and follow the instruction to get the web server account and how to publish your information. 3. Keep in mind that the CSU web server allows a maximum size of data files up to 20MB. So your data files should be within this limit. 4. At the completion of registration process, you should have a webpage address similar to http://csusap.csu.edu.au/~username (where username is your actual username) It will NOT be active until you place some files on the server. Then complete the following: 1. Create a new HTML5 file named index.htm and save it in a folder with your Data Files. 2. Add the appropriate doctype for HTML5 to the beginning of the file. 3. Add a comment to the document head describing the document's content and containing your name and the date. 4. Add an appropriate page title to the document head. 5. Set the character set of the file to UTF­8. 6. Include at least one example of each of the following: structural elements such as the header, footer, section and aside elements grouping elements including a heading and a paragraph a text­level element an inline image a character entity reference or a character encoding number ordered or unordered list include an Internal Style Sheet which provides at least 2 type selectors and a universal selecto