Creating a Personal Website

Rather than making your landing page a resource for your contacts, consider linking to your personal website. This will give you greater flexibility and control over your design and organization of your topics... as well as cleaning up your landing page.

I have found Weebly to be an intuitive, easy-to-use website host. They offer a free version which may be sufficient for your needs, or you can pay for extra features. There are lots of very professional templates to choose from, and it's easy to customize them with your own pictures.

You can see my "writer" website at http://karlacook.weebly.com/. The free version mandates using "weebly" in your URL, but if you go with the "pro" version you can choose your own URL (depending on availability).

Blog Post #1

This is the first post on your blog. It is the one that feeds your homepage on Sonlight's website. You'll want to be sure to update it regularly to keep it current. You can do that by clicking on Edit and then the "Publish Post" button when you've made any changes. Be sure you don't ever delete this post.

For visual appeal you could include a personal picture... maybe one of your family, or local scenery. I pasted in my blog header. I also included my head shot in this post, since my Blogger profile is more of a scenery picture.

Include your contact info:

• Email address (linked, so they don't have to copy it)
• (I don't list my phone number as I don't like to have it "out there" on the internet, but you can invite them to email you if they would like a call.)

Also links to other social networks:

• Facebook
• Twitter
• link to blog (yes, that's here... but when it shows up on the Sonlight page, it's not "here")

I also list links to some of my blog posts that have to do with homeschooling that I think other homeschool parents might find helpful.