My New Website, A Learning Experience
I made myself a website last week to advertise my freelance writing services and it's been a great learning experience. I went with HostGator and have found them excellent so far. I used their web templates in their site studio product to create the look of the site and added a wordpress blog. The blog is a bit of a challenge so far but after spending 3 days on nothing but my website I've left it alone the last few days so I could get back to my work. I'll fix it and a few other things on the site in the coming weeks. In the meantime I have an 'under construction' disclaimer.
Why does a freelance writer need their own business website? I want to take my business to the next level, really. I was using my blog and a googlepage to talk about my experience and show samples but a few weeks ago had to write something for a client and before I knew it I was writing about the fact that as a business you need a professional website if you expect to be taken seriously to prospective customers. I guess I sort hit myself with a tonne of bricks.
So DanaPrinceWriting.com was born and a brand new blog has sprung forth. This customer blog focuses on my customers as my audience and I plan to share useful information I've come across as a freelance writer.
I have a lot to learn about using Wordpress and CPanel and must say I'm absolutely in love with the Webalizer tool that comes free with it and tells me so much about my visitors. The site still needs some tweaking and for some reason verdana font 3 doesn't look the same on a standard page as it does on other special pages in my site building software but I'll soon figure that all out.
I feel, with this new site that I'm taking my career to another level. The career is going well and I'm starting to get approached for business instead of constantly chasing for it. My small team of p/t writers is allowing me to be a bit more choosy about what I spend my time on and this is a great thing.
This is my first real experience with my own website and if you are interested in getting your own site going but have minimal experience, I highly recommend hostgator.
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Submitted by marleymauve on Thu, 11/22/2007 - 09:56.
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It's always fun (interesting, too) to watch others...
...finding ways to become more successful, to use this technique or that, one Internet tool or another, to take their career to the next level.
Ultimately, every freelancer has to decide whether their primary blog or site is going to be client based or colleague based. The two groups are very different.
TF
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Thanks, Malcolm
I realized that so many of my blogs had different audiences and thought this would be a good way to provide value to prospective clients and existing clients. Thanks for stopping by with your comment. You are always so supportive and it is very appreciated
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Static or dynamic
I have three new blogs to create as a result of all that I've been doing they will be adding a unique perspective to my already many blogs that I've already created.
Several of my blogs are static blogs due to the content and the need to promote an experience that I don't want to get lost in the mundane experiences of everyday life.
So now I have this idea, one of la'more, one that explores the depths of wrath and one that expounds upon the ideals that we should all embrace.
These new blogs and some of the other blogs that I use as dynamic areas to put events and thoughts of a personal nature that build from current experiences that happen as a result of being alive and having the ability to capture the thought through the experience to be later shared when I have the ability or chance to access and create a word, sentence, paragraph or page, maybe even a novel, who me a lot to write?
Did I mention having the gift of gab?
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I visited your new website, Marleymauve and was quite impressed.
The blog had so much good information; thanks so much for sharing.
If I found anything at all I didn't like, it would be the dark purple heading at the top of the customer blog page which was difficult for me to read and detracted from the page, as a whole. Others might disagree with me, but reading from a computer screen is hard on the eyes to begin with so anything that can make it easier is appreciated.
Good luck in your new venture.
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