A Personal Website

What better way of letting a prospective employer know who you are?

You may even want to train yourself as a web programmer

A personal website is relatively easy to create and maintain. You could use a CMS program to do so but it is a lot easier to just create a simple web page and upload it to a web hosting service. These web hosting services can be free, as can the initial registration of a domain name. However, the cost os hosting is not expensive.

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If you had a Personal Website would it be found?

While the creation of a Personal Website is reasonably cheap and easy to do, there is little point in having it if nobody can find it.

Depending on why you created the site in the first place there are many ways that the site can be found. I guess the most obvious is that someone who is interested in you or your enterprise then they will make an Internet search. If you don't have a site then the results from such a search will not be useful. If you have alternate web presence, such as Social Media, then the result may not be what you want the person making the search to find.

Web Presence

The Wikipedia page (current Jan 2024) says:

" A web presence is a location on the World Wide Web where a person, business, or some other entity is represented (see also web property and point of presence). "

" Examples of a web presence for a person could be a personal website, a blog, a profile page, a wiki page, or a social media point of presence (e.g. a LinkedIn profile, a Facebook account, or a Twitter account). Examples of a web presence for a business or some other entity could be a corporate website, a microsite, a page on a review site, a wiki page, or a social media point of presence (e.g., a LinkedIn company page and/or group, a Facebook business/brand/product page, or a Twitter account). "

" Every web presence is associated with a unique web address to distinguish one point of presence from another. "

Having spent a fair amount of time getting a presence for a number of entities, a Parish Council and a Village Hall, I have developed methods to ensure that they can be found if someone makes a search for them.

However, now that I have looked in 2024 I find that this page was not in the Google Index. While I realise that it is unlikely that I will generate any interest from Belchamp Walter I should be able to get this page to feature in Google's index. "Personal Website Belchamp Walter" returns the Hall, the Parish Council, the Charity Commission page for the Village Hall and various other rental locations for the village.

A Personal Website

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