I’m still not quite sure what the benefits of having a personal landing page are but after seeing a few familiar faces using free services from some specialized personal landing page sites, I decided to make one of my own. If nothing else, it will give me a URL I can put on business cards that I probably won’t need to change and shows my entire presence on the internet. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve handed out cards but had to add “Oh, but my food blog is here.” at foodie events or “But I also write for Canucks Hockey Blog.” at tweetups. Instead, I can just hand them a card that directs to a site where all my online stuff is.
That and I have to admit, I thought up a somewhat clever domain name (edlauis.me) and registered it on a whim. I don’t like using free services since I think that’s like using Blogspot or Blogger or even WordPress to host my blog rather than having my own URL. I also thought it would be fun to learn how to write a website from scratch using lines of HTML and CSS code rather than having it all done for me with WordPress.
What do you think? O
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I like it Ed! Love the design on the website, and its a concept that can work for you with you giving the cards out to people. Its nice to have everything in one simple place.
-Jean
Looking stylish Ed (and yes, I know I’m late to the party)! I always forget that I have myself an about.me page – something I’m apt to stick with considering I’m too lazy to create one of my own.
Nice!
The design is plain and simple, to the point very professional.
Thumbs up for this one.
Excellent idea Ed!
You have given me a great idea for a rather stale personal site of my own. I must get to work on it and improve it with such simplicity – how awesome.
Thanks.
Kim
thank you for the great idea. I want to set up the personal blog on my own, too, but the problems is that i dont know anything about CSS and HTML code, so i still have to depend on WP (but to tell the truth, WP is good for setting up a blog, right?)
Creating your own site using HTML and CSS can be fustrating unless you have a good knowledge of coding. Also you dont have all the benefits of the plugins and themes that you get with a wordpress site.
The landing page looks great Ed. Very professional looking. It is a nice clean layout.
- Robert
Yelling loudly as guys throw rubber at a net. Bahahahah that one gave me a good laugh
Very nice idea. Create your personal page very attractive and with lot of content.Visitors will get attracted.