Computer Hardware - Lecture Blog Post

Design professions such as landscape architects, architects, engineers, interior designers etc. do not have any resources for putting up online portfolios either.  My idea is to create a website which would cater to students and professionals in these design fields and help them design their own portfolios online, using different templates that can be customized.

Computer hardware will definitely be needed in order to create this website or any website for that matter.  Websites, especially ones dealing with a lot of graphics like ours, need computers that will be able to handle a lot of this kind of work.  Computers that cannot handle a lot of processes and programs running at once will not only cause many headaches, but also will not work for this kind of business.  There are three computer hardware components that I think are really important with my website portfolio business.

When designing the website, the computers that we will be using should have a lot of RAM.  They will need to be able to handle a lot of programs running at once.  Graphics programs in particular can slow a computer’s performance down a great deal.  The more gigabytes of RAM on these computers, the better off we will be.

Another piece of hardware that the computers should include is a lot of hard drive space.  When designing the actual website layout, graphics software will most likely be utilized for the overall design.  I know from personal experience that graphics files can take up a lot of space on the hard drive. 

The last component of hardware that our computers will need is a really good graphics cards.  Like I said before, this is a very graphics intensive business so a high quality graphics card will be needed for our computers.