Week 3, Creating My Personal Website

This is my personal website.

In my personal website, I brieftly introduced who I am as a Carleton College student. Besides the academic perspetive, I also showed three of my main hoobies below, so the viewers can get to know me more.If I had more time, I would have added another section to show my main achievement so far.

The process I made my website was pretty smooth. At first I was just taking it simply as completing an assignment, but as I explored different themes and tools in WordPress, I started to enjoy the process of making my own website, hoping I could use this platform to build a formal personal website for job application in the future.The theme I chose was Kubio, for it caught my attention at the first glance. As I entered the template page of the theme, I came up with countless ideas of how I was going to build this website. However, due to the limit of time, I have not completed all of my blueprint. During the building process, the only trouble I had was finding where to add additional CSS Code in Kubio theme (it said the ways to add CSS Code differ depending on different themes). Kubio does not have the usual interface as the one in the instruction video, so I had no way but to click every tab to see if anything is related to CSS code. Finally I found it in the “General Setting” tab. And here is my CSS code:

body {
  background-color: #f5f5f5;
}
h1 {
  color: #333333;
  font-size: 36px;
}

In the case of job application, I believe having a personal website can be really outstanding among all the applicants, because it provides a more visual and engaging way to not only introducing myself, but also displaying who I am from diverse perspectives. But the drawback is also obvious: it is not as easy to communicate with others as being in a social media. Even if a beautiful personal website is made, it is hard to let people know unless it is put in a social media platform. In addition, it costs more time and effort to build, modify and update personal websites comparing to using a social media platform. As a result, I think it is important to think twice before deciding to build one’s personal website. But once it is created, you must be very proud of yourself.