11 Quick Tricks For Your Personal Homepage That’ll Help You Land A Job

February 22, 2012

By Kamaila Sanders

Building your web presence has become more and more important in getting your name out there, promoting your personal brand, securing the job of your dreams, or convincing clients to buy your services.

When engineer Loren Burton wanted to work at Airbnb he designed this resume website.

To chase her dream job at Instagram, UPenn student Alice Lee designed one too.

Of course, you don't have to build a resume website, but having a your own personal homepage or a you.com site and building an online web presence is becoming more and more important in our digital age.

If you're going to do it though, you need to make sure that it is well designed.

To get the tips and tricks of building your personal homepage we reached out to the founders of Web Start Women, an organization that teaches women web design skills and One Page Love, a site that showcases the best onepage website designs on the internet.

Here are the tricks and tips they taught us.

Start by securing your domain name-example: Kamailasanders.com

You can check for domain name availability and purchase server space from hosting companies like DreamHost or Go Daddy.

If you can, try to get a .com extension (versus a .net or a .biz extension) since that is the most recognized format.

If you are building the page from scratch (or want to) you will also need to download a text editor.

Textwrangler is a free text editor that you can download for Mac. Notepad ++ is a free text editor that you can download for PC.

A text editor is where you will write your code. Both of these text editors also have File Transfer Protocols (FTP) already built into them. An FTP will allow you to transfer your files, such as photos, from your computer to your server.

If you purchase another text editor, make sure it has built in FTP.

Fetch is also a great tool to help you transfer your files from your computer to your server.