Personal Websites

Building your personal brand is made much easier with a personal website. Ideally, your website should be the first search result for your name. The earlier you start, the better your SEO will be (i.e. appear at the top of Google search).

Ari Dutilh

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Some examples of great personal websites:

portfolio

a collection of various things

neb.bio

Brittany Chiang

Brittany Chiang is a software engineer who builds accessible, inclusive products and digital experiences for the web.

brittanychiang.com

supnim

product designer + software engineer

supnim.com

Paco Coursey

Crafting interfaces. Webmaster at Linear. Building polished software and web experiences.

paco.me

Ari Dutilh

Building mission-driven communities

aridutilh.com

neesh.ilioslabs.dev

Best Practices

• Your best picture of yourself should be featured at the top

• Your site will be more SEO-friendly if it’s a .com domain

• This is a space to be casual and yourself

• Add logos and text of past projects and companies you’ve worked at

• Showcase and link what you’ve done in a portfolio section

• Keep your website fluff-free with only the most interesting things

Resources:

• Buy a domain at Namecheap

• Register your domain with Cloudflare to protect it and get free SSL

• Code your website (tutorial) or use a no-code builder like Notion with Fruition (tutorial)

• Set up analytics using Splitbee (free)