Building a Personal Website
We are approaching the last weeks of Exploring your Digital Portfolio and the time has come to create our personal websites. I have to admit when I first saw this final assignment listed on our syllabus, I was nervous. As I have stated in previous blogs, I am technologically challenged. So creating a website seems like it would be an incredible feat for me. We viewed and discussed several sites in class including: Weebly, Wix, Google Sites, Adobe Spark, Wordpress and About Me.
Professor Calderwood suggested that we spend some time looking at each website to determine which one we would choose and made sure to tell us that there should be no need for us to spend any money to create our sites. Everything that needs to be included in our final project can be viewed at: http://goo.gl/KNKLjN. It is still a great deal of information for me to absorb and organize.
Where do I begin?
In Brady Krein's blog post Where to Begin When Building a Website, he provides step by step instructions for creating your website. He offers great information about different hosts, domains, page content and maintenance. I found this post to be very helpful.
I have decided that I will use Weebly as my host after reading the comparisons given by Vijay in Weebly vs Wix: Comparison of the Best Website Builder in the World. In terms of ease of use and navigation and responsiveness of the website, he deems Weebly the clear winner. He says Wix is better with design and customization. I don't really need fancy and complicated. I need basic and easy. I also found the following video to be helpful:
I am now less nervous and more excited about this final project. A website is another tool for creating your brand and getting recognized.
In our final chapter readings of LOL...OMG. Matt Ivester wants to us to know that we are in control of the content we post on the Internet and its future impact which we have the potential to make a positive. He gives several tests that can help you decide if the behavior you engage in online is consistent with your values and guidelines that you have set for yourself. He also discussed that as times change and people have a greater understanding of the internet, its use will continue to improve and we will see tremendous benefits. One of these improvements has been the trend of using real identities online. This will improve when all of the information online becomes interconnected. Less anonymity creates more trust. He believes that the Internet has the potential to be a powerful deterrent to bad behavior, and to encourage people to treat one another better, online and offline
Professor Calderwood suggested that we spend some time looking at each website to determine which one we would choose and made sure to tell us that there should be no need for us to spend any money to create our sites. Everything that needs to be included in our final project can be viewed at: http://goo.gl/KNKLjN. It is still a great deal of information for me to absorb and organize.
Where do I begin?
In Brady Krein's blog post Where to Begin When Building a Website, he provides step by step instructions for creating your website. He offers great information about different hosts, domains, page content and maintenance. I found this post to be very helpful.
I have decided that I will use Weebly as my host after reading the comparisons given by Vijay in Weebly vs Wix: Comparison of the Best Website Builder in the World. In terms of ease of use and navigation and responsiveness of the website, he deems Weebly the clear winner. He says Wix is better with design and customization. I don't really need fancy and complicated. I need basic and easy. I also found the following video to be helpful:
In our final chapter readings of LOL...OMG. Matt Ivester wants to us to know that we are in control of the content we post on the Internet and its future impact which we have the potential to make a positive. He gives several tests that can help you decide if the behavior you engage in online is consistent with your values and guidelines that you have set for yourself. He also discussed that as times change and people have a greater understanding of the internet, its use will continue to improve and we will see tremendous benefits. One of these improvements has been the trend of using real identities online. This will improve when all of the information online becomes interconnected. Less anonymity creates more trust. He believes that the Internet has the potential to be a powerful deterrent to bad behavior, and to encourage people to treat one another better, online and offline
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