Website Creation

Another step towards graduation is the creation of a website, have you ever researched where to create a personal website? It seems like there is an endless amount of sites that allow those of us with little to no coding skill to create beautiful custom websites. For starters there is behance, wix, squarespace & weebly.

I originally signed up for wix as it seemed like everyone was using it, turns out I strongly dislike wix. I dislike everything about it, I am unable to do what I want to create the basic site I wanted, I couldn't alter basic forms & the worst part was the loading screen. I always know when I go to a wix page because on every computer I try it always has the same annoying loading screen with the million little circles going around and around. I ended up deleting that account and never publishing the sad site I had created.

My next thought was squarespace though I didn't need to sign up with them as a friend of mine tested out their services & I got to watch as she learned what was & was not possible with their layout. Behance seems nice & have a profile on there though I wont be putting much effort into once I have a little more free time.

 

One site that I found and simply adore is flavors.me. Not only is it simple to use, but it allows for easy set up, automatic search engine optimization, & the ability to 'plug in' other pages. So this process book is included right in the site & whenever I update here, it updates there as well, & my LinkedIn Profile connects as well so as long as that is up to date so is my site. It helps cut down on worry and effort that can best be spent somewhere else. Now all that's left to do is upgrade to premium to get my own domain name & create a custom page with my portfolio pieces on it.