Why Every Student Needs a Website and How to Make One

BY SYLVIA KOHL

A personal website offers innumerable possibilities for a student. It’s not only a place where you can show off your creativity and glowing personality to the world. A site is a tool that can help you achieve new heights in academics and even get you started on the road to business success.

4 Reasons Why You Need a Personal Website

There are dozens of possible uses for a website, so the benefits it can offer are truly limitless.

1. It can help you get a better job.
   Worried about your employment after college? 56% of hiring managers freely admit that they are more impressed by candidates that have high-quality websites. Create a page that will show you are a skilled professional, despite your lack of experience, and your chances of landing a position will increase.
2. It gives you a substantial online presence.
   Like Facebook Device allows you to connect your digital devices with your social media account, a website can tie together all your accounts and internet projects. This will allow you to establish a ‘digital personality’ that will impress your classmates, partners, teachers, and even friends when they Google you. As our world is getting more dependent on the Internet by the day, a website that reflects your strengths will go a long way in making a positive image of your personality.
3. It can help you make money.
   Your website may become a source of extra income in many different ways. For example, you can review some products, join the Amazon Affiliate Program, get commissions from purchases made through the links in your posts. If you prefer to run a blog, you can make it profitable by attracting advertising. Any business endeavor today needs online marketing, so if you plan to create a startup, you’ll have to make a website for your enterprise.
4. It can help you achieve great results in studying.
   Many study projects require surveys of popular opinions or other types of input from the public. You can use your personal website for research purposes, attracting attention of the targeted group (for surveys) or asking industry experts for advice. Publish parts of your project to drive criticism that will help you improve, or openly ask for advice from interested readers. The wealth of information you can collect this way will enhance your research and allow you to create fantastic projects.

How to Build a Great Personal Website

There are free platforms that will allow you build a simple site and launch it within a few days. However, to make it truly successful, you need to bear in mind the following things:

1. Your purpose.
   Do you want to have a blog to rant about college, a place to advertise and sell your handmade goodies, or a site fit for an affiliate program? The structure of your website will depend on its purpose, so you need to set the goal first and look up the best platform based on this.
2. The site structure.
   The best way to develop the perfect structure is to research other resources similar to the one you want to create and seek inspiration from them. Be sure to study several professional guides as well, because you need to make your website better than that of prospective competitors.
3. Creating a website is easy, but you also need to let the world know that you have it. Look up some guides on digital marketing and be sure to spread the news through your social media accounts. Keep in mind keywords and SEO optimization both when you create the site and when you add new content to it.

You need to consider these things regardless of whether you create the site on your own or hire a professional to do it. Note that if you want the website to help your future career, it should be made by experts.

 

Author’s bio:

Sylvia Kohl is an IT teacher with more than 7 years of professional experience. Her main spheres of interest are e-education and beta-testing. This writer chose news about the increasing role of IT usage in colleges and schools as the most common topic for her articles.