bob the website builder

Having a website to show a portfolio, contact information, and even just a picture of yourself can go a long way in self-promotion. Having a personal website can make someone appear far more professional than if they were to not have one. While a personal website is not a necessity for self-promotion, it can be used as a valuable tool to leverage yourself and your work beyond a physical portfolio or resume. Having a website allows for your work to also be more accessible, and easier for others to learn about a person and what they do.
    The website will be used for showing a portfolio, showing videos that cannot be shown in a physical portfolio, and possibly be edited to include other social media accounts.
    When talking about social media and website building, a personal website serves as an easy location to find all of someone’s social media platforms. The website may serve as a location to navigate from, but the social media projects completed in class act as an extension of the website. These platforms provide a place for different opinions and information to be shared apart from the website.
    When tying in social media projects and the website, a few things needed to be kept in mind. The first being that social media is linked to your website. Social media is an extension of the initial website and should be placed on the website for anyone that might want to find someone on these platforms. The second thing that is necessary when lining social media on a website is making sure there is some sense of professionalism across all these platforms. The third important thing to tie in social media and a personal website would be to make sure there are no spelling or grammatical issues that might reduce your credibility across platforms.
    If this blog post inspires you to begin designing a website, know in advance that it is not that easy. Using code is very sensitive and things can go awry with a project very quickly if you are not careful. On extra character can ruin the code, as what happened many times when coding and designing the personal website. Dreamweaver is a pretty intuitive program, however, and once you get the hang of it is not the worst thing in the world. Coding is a very tedious process but would be a very valuable tool to have in the future. The opportunity to learn some of the basics of writing code was very valuable, even though it was also frustrating at times.
    The best part about learning how to code is being able to personalize and alter the code to look however someone might see fit. This allows for practical use of creative expression and can show some of a persons’ personality through the design of the site. Learning a more detailed code to be able to further perfect the aesthetic of the site is something that the website could benefit from.
    Overall, website coding is not as daunting as it might sound and can be a valuable tool in the professional setting.