It seems that putting together my Digital Humanities Portfolio is a series of really small steps that will hopefully form a cohesive whole over the next two weeks. At the start of every day, I always intend to build an entire page or section to cross it off of the requirements list, but there are smaller things that first need to be constructed before I can begin to work on an actual part of the project. For example, this past weekend, I spent most of my time building the HTML pages not just for my research and general website, but also for a landing page for the portfolio itself, making sure to construct directories that I can then just insert the information I need as soon as it is available. This is a needed step, I will admit, but it's interesting how this portfolio has really become a collection of really small additions and cannot be rushed for that very same reason.
However, I do seem to have a general layout for my pages, which makes it easier to construct the different sections using slightly modified css style sheets and streamlines the process a bit. Hopefully, once I start putting together the other aspects of my portfolio, it should be simple to adapt my already established pages to display what I need it to in order to meet requirements.
At the moment, outside of this HTML triumph (or potential triumph), I am currently trying to work with QGIS and get it to display data. This is more frustrating than what I anticipated; I have a vague memory of loading data and a map into the program and displaying things, but I feel like I am relearning how to use the program all over again at the same time (I'm also reminded how much I really dislike the program as a whole). I've spent far too long trying to figure out how to use OpenLayers to display a map and now I can't seem to figure out how to get it to focus on Albuquerque. Again, it seems this addition to my portfolio will be another series of small additions as opposed to one large contribution. We'll see how this goes.
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