www.me.com

Creating a website is a challenging yet self rewarding task for anyone to accomplish, especially for a student in the Communication studies department.  As a person who is graduating, creating a self-promotion website is extremely beneficial for the future of job hunting.  After graduation, it is time to step into the world as an adult and become the person you set out to be.  Creating a website that promotes the things you have done throughout your school years is something that could possibly get a foot in the door of your own future.

To promote yourself, there are important things that a website must contain.  A personal and professional photo, a professional and promoting biography, and several things that you have already accomplished are important to include.  Things such as press releases, audio mixes, and other works that you have personally created throughout school and free time are all appropriate to put up on a self-promoting website.  These works should showcase your personal talents within your major and show your future employees the type of work you can and are willing to do.

Social Media is important for anyone to include on a self-promoting website.  Because Social Media has become so prominent in the lives of everyday people, companies will look for someone who is able to use Social Media in an efficient and professional manner.  Social Media projects performed in classes such as a Twitter Project, maintaining your own blog on Blogger, and even creating your own WikiHow page are all things that will showcase Social Media talents to possible future employers.  It is important to remember to be professional in these Social Media platforms.  Employers are not looking for someone who gets hundreds of likes on their newest selfies, but instead someone who can use Social Media to promote themselves in a professional way, or the company they are working for in a professional way.  They are also looking for someone who can dish out information, not someone who can retweet puns and funny GIFs.  These specific Social Media projects tie into the self-promoting websites because the Social Media projects are also self-promoting.  They are self-promoting on the abilities of using Social Media, and they are self-promoting about the work that you personally have done through Social Media platforms.

The overall experience of designing a self-promoting website is slightly challenging yet extremely rewarding.  The most important thing is to have a plan of action before starting.  Thumbnails will really help the process go more smoothly than just starting completely blank.  When you start off with a plan and an end goal, it is much easier, less frustrating and smoother to actually create the desired look.  The software to create a website is surprisingly less challenging than a person may believe.  It is a lot of copy and paste for coding, and knowing the quick tricks like borrowing HTML from other websites.  Knowing this and having a set plan will make the website unfold before your eyes.  Although the process is fairly simple, it is very tedious.  Every single character in coding is important, and you really have to pay attention to what you are typing and deleting in order for the website to come out the way you want it too.

A self-promoting website is a very useful resource as a college student who is about to graduate.  Promoting yourself is important in order to find the career path you are hoping for and to start your future.  Although it would be easier to find someone and pay them to create the website for you, it is much more beneficial to do the work yourself.  It will test your own patience and really show yourself who you are and what you can do as a student and as a person.