Chall asked what I meant when I said I established a professional website. It's just going to be a typical university-style set of pages describing my research interests with stuff from my cv. It will also have a blog that I intend to update maybe 1-3 times a month with personal updates (e.g. when a paper gets accepted), commentary on cool papers, or observations from meetings.
The website for our recent conference was powered by Wordpress via my institution. At first I was all, "why are you giving me a blog when I asked for webpages?" But it turned out to be super easy to manage and it looked really slick. The content were all in "pages" and I used the blog part for "news". I plan to do something similar with my own site.
A cool feature of Wordpress (maybe Blogger or other platforms too) is that you can pay to have your own domain name but still use all the structure, templates, everything from Wordpress. So my page is ecogeofemme.com rather than ecogeofemme.wordpress.com which is kind of neat. Probably most of you already knew about that, but I didn't before this weekend.
I've been meaning to establish a website for my professional self for a long, long time. I simply don't have enough presence on the web, especially now that it's nearing the time when I'll be looking for jobs and I have all this exposure from the conference. I think I finally found a way to do it that's easy enough that I'll actually do it!
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I'm thinking of doing the same thing. May I ask how much you pay for hosting & the domain name? I'm being quoted $150 per year total (Canadian dollar, but it's at par!)
Oh man, I only paid $25! That included a charge for keeping my info private. Maybe it's more if you buy the name outright rather than going through something like wordpress?
And how 'bout that par? It was great for our recent overseas visitors. However, I hope it swings back before EGM's Far Off Land student loans come due.
Thanks for the link! And the explanation. Hm, I might look into that too.... It's tempting to have a site to direct ppl to. Especially since my other professional site has some issues with "non english letters" etc in the address... guess I'd still have that issue, unless I design the name something obvious ^^
As you mention, the student loan pay back suck right now as a "I need a good exchange rate the other way around" ;)
If the site is meant to be professional, why not host it at your current place of employment? Since the content is fully yours, you could just move it to the new place of employment as you move around yourself.
Oh, you can do that just through WordPress? Cool! Thanks for the info, I will check it out :)
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