Personal webpage or nameplate sites such as About.me, Flavors, and Vilify, are extremely quick ways to create a simple website. Typically these nameplate sites aggregate content that you provide and are very flexible. They can be a quick and easy way to get a presence online and can also be used to supplement your website and social media presence by adding another marketing channel and audience to help drive traffic to your website.
| Name | Website | About |
|---|---|---|
| About.me | http://about.me/ | About.me didn’t really exist the last time we asked about your favorite landing pages, but since its rise to popularity, it’s easily become one of the most popular services to build a personal or a professional nameplate with a short, URL. About.me is free, and the page designs highlight a single image that you can select from a gallery or a photo of yourself or your work that you can upload. You can then fill in information about yourself around the image, including a short bio, links to your social networks, other blogs, or even your professional portfolio. |
| Flavors.me | http://flavors.me/ | Flavors.me was one of the first nameplate sites to the game that focused on design instead of essentially being a web-based resume. It’s the only site that made the top five for a second time, and for good reasonit’s easy to use, the drag-and-drop page builder is intuitive, and setting up a personal portal is quick and simple. |
| Zerply | http://zerply.com/ | Zerply’s approach to a professional landing page focuses on the professional. Your landing page looks and behaves like a resume, complete with your work history in chronological order, along with a short bio at the top. |
| Re.vu | http://re.vu/ | Re.vu is web-based resume alternative that’s also a sharp looking landing page that you can invite anyone to see. Re.vu is free, and will automatically create a profile for you if you connect our LinkedIn account. It will pull in your work history, current position, credentials, and recommendations, and then let you fill in the rest or connect other social networks or websites. |
| Google Sites | http://sites.google.com/ | Set up a free site or link to your Google Profile with nothing more than your Google account. Whichever service you choose, all of them will have you up and running with a sharp-looking professional nameplate in minutes that you can link to anyone who needs to find you on the web. |
| Gravatar | https://en.gravatar.com/ | Better & lesser known for Globally Recognised Avatar, its a highly profitable (in context to traffic & personal branding) & free way to interact with all Gravatar supported blogs, sites & forums. Its focused to more of interactions though, but it also gives you a simple but impressive personal landing page, a good enough reason to make me add it to the list. |
| CarbonMade | http://carbonmade.com/ | A creative online portfolio app with bearly 500,000 portfolios & over 7 million images to get inspired from. Carbonmade helps you build and manage an online portfolio website. Carbonmade can be used to show off design, illustration, art, or any other types of creative work.For photographers and designers, its charming. |
| Vizify.com | http://vizify.com/ | Vizify.com is a new website that launched in July 2012. Rather than relying on a static background image, it presents visitors with a dynamic series of web links directing users to your most important websites and social media pages. The service attracted 17,000 members in its first ten days, according to Arwa Jumkawala, Vizify’s Director of Marketing. “They’re not using it as a CV or resume replacement,” Jumkawala said during a telephone interview, “but as a supplement. A number of users have told us they have had interviews because of it.” |
| BrandYourself | http://brandyourself.com/ | BrandYourself.com is an impressive do-it-yourself SEO platform that would allow you boost your chance of being found in search engines with a cool looking landing pages & control reputation management as well. Great tool for job seekers who want to control their reputation online. They can push results down: Inappropriate pictures, Posts about you that are not appropriate for your seniors at workplace, Updates not impressive for a job interview. |
| Self-Made/Self-Hosted | http://wordpress.org/ | While there is a variety of different self-made/ self-hosted websites to chose from; we suggest WordPress because it is very user-friendly. The benefit of a self-made website is that you can build your website to look exactly the way you want, with as much and as little information as you want. For those interested in a one-stop shop, WordPress also provides you with the opportunity to purchase your personal URL. |
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