Publish your Portfolio
You can publish and unpublish your portfolio with the click of a button. Before publishing your portfolio, you can customize the look of your pages by editing page style and layout To publish a portfolio, follow the steps below:
- Go to My Portfolios, and the click the title of the portfolio you want to publish. You will move to the portfolio summary page.
- Click Publish in the purple box at the top of the page under the portfolio title. You will proceed to the "Web publishing" page. (See image to right.)
- Select Enable Web publishing for this portfolio under "Web publishing status" at the top.
- If you wish to change your portfolio's URL, type the name you prefer in the text box at the end of the Web address. Don't use spaces or non-letter characters in the URL, though you can use hyphens and underscores.
- You also have the option of giving your viewers the ability to comment on your published portfolio by choosing "Yes". This provides a "feedback" option underneath all the artifacts in your published portfolio.
- You have three security options you can apply to your published portfolio to restrict who can view it: No viewing restrictions enables anyone to view your published portfolio. Anyone with a UW NetID restricts viewing to members of the UW community. Restrict using a password enables you to enter a password and restricts viewing to those you give the password to.
- Click Save Changes to publish your portfolio. You will return to the Portfolio Summary page, and the URL of your published portfolio will appear in the purple box at the bottom of the screen. To view your published portfolio, click the URL.
To unpublish your portfolio, just click the Unpublish button in the purple box at the top of the page under the portfolio title.