Why you need a website - and it's easier than you think
💡 Ali explains why you need your own website and tells you how easy it is to do
Why you should have a website - 6 benefits and a bonus one!
- develop yourself and your ideas
- helps professional life (interviews and contacts/references)
- lots of connections - networking
- expose yourself to interesting opportunities
- you can have more impact - equiv to good networking - global reach
- you can monetise - eventually if you want!
- 🏆 Bonus - you can avoid the censorship and shadow-banning of social media and establish your own platform and distrubution channels
How to create a website
- Squarespace (if you have no computer skills) or Ghost (Ali and I use it)
- Do not over-think it - just DO IT and blog weekly
- Get your own domain
What to do with it
- You must have at least: About, Contact and Blog
- Blog regularly - weekly is a good schedule...
- Write whatever interests you - something useful for at least one person!
- Document document what you do & learn - it's easier than creating content
- Share on Social Media!
- Focus on writing useful content and encourage people to share!
Diving Deeper
🤔 If you have caught the bug and want to go further - you can just go to Squarespace or Ghost and follow their step by step instructions. In case you want to see more before you jump in the try this:
A good 101 explainer on how to get going including:
- How to pick a good name - I like this tool
- How to find your own domain - I use namecheap
- 10 themes with their differentiating features - plenty available free
- Formatting your posts - something I know I need to focus on!
❤️ I do recommend Brad Traversy as a trainer and coach - I have followed him over the years and his free material is more than enough for most; he also goes in depth on many topics - check out his website here. For those who are already interested to know more about the skills involved - check out his State of the Art Explainer video and he provides pointers for your own learning if you take the initiative.
🛠 Tools of the trade
Visual Studio Code is just the 🏆 Gold Standard Editor - crash course here
Brad's HTML5 Crash course and CSS Crash course - highly recommended and totally free