Personal website building - three years later
Date:
Outline
- Previously in building a personal website
- Building a personal website with wordpress
- Building a personal website with squarespace
- Conclusion
1. Previously in building a personal website
- Personal website building for dummies
- Things to consider when choosing a platform for personal website
- Easy to read
- about
- research
- teaching
- Easy to maintain
- updating materials
- adding/removing entries
- Easy to customize
- adding fun stuff
- (?) Easy to transfer
- Easy to read
2. Building a personal website with wordpress
- What
- wordpress: world’s most popular website builder (Wordpress 2021)
- Why
- what you see is what you get
- free (almost)
- templates
- How
- register
- basic layout
- menu
- page
See an example here
2.1 Building a personal website with wordpress.com
Step 1 - register
Step 2 - pick a domain
- you can change this later (but good domain names are hard to come up with)
- (from Personal website building for dummies)
- domains using one’s name is (I think) a common practice, but see here :)
- try to avoid stuff like bigsyntax.guru
Step 3 - basic setup
- design, fonts, features, which can be changed later
Step 4 - play!
- theme to play with: Penscratch 2
- wordpress component: page
- wordpress component: menu
- wordpress component: post
2.2 Building a personal website with SB You
- Very similar to wordpress
- More professional-looking domain
- See an example here
3. Building a personal website with Squarespace
- What
- Everything you need to grow online. (Squarespace 2021)
- Why
- more artistic-looking pages
- slightly better user interface and experience
- How
- similar to wordpress
See an example here (password: lei)
4. Conclusion
- Pros & Cons
- Wordpress
- Pros: easy to use; easy to import/export
- Cons: domain name; ad
- SB You
- Pros: all of the pros in Wordpress; professional domain name
- Cons: takes time to customize
- Square space
- Pros: slightly better UI and UX
- Cons: no free option
- Wordpress
- Things to consider when choosing a platform for personal website
- easy to read
- easy to maintain
- easy to customize
- (?) easy to transfer
- Conclusion: Wordpress = SB You = Squarespace
- Pricing (annual)
- Wordpress
- free when using YourName.wordpress.com
- $4/month with one year free domain
- SB You
- free
- Squarespace
- no free option
- $12/month with domain
- Student discount 50% off 1st full year
- Wordpress