Hi Everyone! Making my website with WordPress was an interesting process. It was straightforward enough to make the website itself, and the idea of having my own website is pretty exciting, but some things like installing the spam filter add-on were weird. Adding the Akismet spam protection plugin was a little confusing because of how the interfaces are laid out. For example, I thought I had to pay for the service, and then there was the part about entering the key after following their tutorial, as it felt like the button to do so was hidden. I also had a fun time messing with the colors of the background and text in CSS. I’m not sure how, but I ended up with a fun stripe pattern on my About Me page, which while it looks horrendous, I am tempted to leave up for a little while.
Currently, I don’t have a plan for this website other than possibly linking it to my LinkedIn in the future, but I’ll have to do some serious editing of the design before that. Thankfully, WordPress makes it fairly simple to design the page! I read about others possibly using the space as a place to showcase a wide array of projects like games they make or code they write which could be a fun way to keep track of everything you’ve worked on!
Some of the benefits of having your own site are the increased freedoms and control you have over what can be seen on the site, as well as how others use the site…if anyone else uses it at all. I would agree with the others in saying that the biggest drawback is probably the fact that having a website is sort of phasing out as social media becomes a more prevalent place for businesses, organizations, and even hobbyists to share their projects, ideas, plans, etc. It’s definitely interesting to have your own website to be able to use essentially however you like, but I find that since there are social media structures already in place that allow you to do practically the same thing as having a website, albeit this mainly applies to those who own smaller businesses and are just looking for a place to share their creations. Even then, I feel that making a site from scratch doesn’t seem necessary anymore. There’s likely already a site hosting service that has the tools to allow you to design a page for the goals you have for your site anyway, whether it be running a business or blogging. Website hosting feels like something more of a something done for fun now rather than a significant part of a professional career, for lack of a better phrase.
Here’s the link to my website!
My tragically designed about me page:
