How to Create a Personal Website : A Step-by-Step Guide

A strong online presence is more crucial now than ever, as online is the first approach when looking for someone or something.

Whether you're a professional, a recent graduate seeking employment or pursuing personal brand growth, a personal website is essential. It will give you a competitive edge in your career and help you stand out from the crowd.

But what about the coding hassle? 

Well, there won't be any, thanks to the evolution of no-code website builders. Website builders are simple and efficient tools to help you create a personal website without being tech-savvy. 

Trust me; it's fun. So, shall we embark on our journey?

How to Create a Personal Website with Dorik

Creating a personal website using a website builder is a piece of cake. I have created countless websites using this amazing tool, and I will share the one that I found the easiest to operate.

I'll discuss creating your first personal website with Dorik here.

👉 You can check other 50+ no-code website builders, including WordPress sites, if you'd like.

Why Dorik?

Because it offers 100+ beautiful templates, website generation with AI, 250+ stunning UI blocks, and 20+ elements to build your personal website.

Additionally, it allows you to create stunning portfolio websites with ease.

So, let's scale up your own personal website, with this step-by-step guide.

1. Choose a Personal Website Type

You already know what specialty you are about to showcase through your website. Therefore, it is high time to select your own website type. Don't get confused about the types. I am here to describe you.

So, the personal website is composed of 3 main types of sites. Many describe it in 4 different ways.

We will talk about the 3 main types here, and I hope you will find your best option.

A One-Page Website:

A one-page website might be the best option if you want to generate visitors to your social media and keep tracking your existence on Google.

A one-page website may include a "homepage" with your specialty brief, an "about me" section or page with a brief description about you, and a "contact page" with your contact info and form. Or it can be a single page with all the information, like a landing page. 

If you are a social media influencer, this type is an excellent match for you. If not, let's explore other types of personal websites.

Blog:

If you want to share your thoughts on a particular criterion or specialty, you should go for a personal website with a blog. This will help you to share your ideas with the audience. You can write your cooking recipes, sports ideas, or writing skills through a blog page.

Here you can choose between different categories and work on different topics at a time. But at the beginning level, don't jump too fast.

Make sure you have great ideas about the 'art' of writing and can post writings frequently on websites.

The more you write, the more engagement your website will receive. 

Portfolio: 

Do you want to show your professional skills to the world?

Then a portfolio-type personal website is your perfect match. A online portfolio website is a great way to engage more clients. It's also known as a resume website.

The portfolio website includes a homepage, services, projects, about, and contact section.

You can share your personal details through your professional presence online whether you are a designer, photographer, or writer. It will help you to get responses from new clients. 

👉 More details about the portfolio website are disputed here: How to create a personal portfolio website.  

2. Choose a Free Template

So, you are all set with your plan. Now it's time to start your technical tasks.

Firstly, you have to choose a visual presentation of your site. Yes, it's the template.

Unlike others website builder, Dorik provides you with all free templates.

Also, you can create your personal website with AI — using a single prompt. You can regenerate any sections, pages, text, or images simply from the builder dashboard.

With Dorik website builder, you will get 80+ free templates. You can scroll down to see all the templates.

As you already know what you want to display through your website, choose consequently. You can preview the template before selecting it by tapping on the Preview option.

Read more: How to create a website with AI.

3. Connect Domain Name and Pricing

Once you tap on the 'select' option of your chosen template, you will get a popup page.

The popup will ask you to set a Project Name and your own Domain Name in the same directory as your chosen template.

Yes, It is time to set up a domain name.

I am aware that you have questions about web hosting, right?

Dorik is providing you with free hosting. So, there is no hassle about hosting plan. Just choose and purchase a domain, and you are almost there. 

You can try Dorik's free subdomain name. Or, you can directly upgrade your plan by tapping on the “Upgrade Now” option on your dashboard page.

I hope you completed the domain setup. So, let's move on. 

4. Draw Your Content

How would you like to organize your website?

Before jumping to the design section, draw the visual content.

What pages do you want to include? How to engage visitors?

In a word, you should picture the content in your mind first. Here, I am going to share some thoughts you may try on,

A Homepage 

Your website's homepage is the gateway to your brand. It displays your value and expertise and entices visitors to explore further. But creating a captivating homepage comes with its fair share of challenges.

Craft a winning homepage with this comprehensive guide to creating a homepage with Dorik to captivate visitors and develop a personal brand.

A Contact or Hire Me Page

Creating a Contact Us page is essential for your website as it allows visitors to reach out to you with their inquiries or feedback.

Same as the hire me page, where a client gets through the author in case of hiring. It includes a form or detailed information about the author.

This page also helps the audience to get through the authors' social media.

An About Me Page

An About Us page is the voice of a website from where you can learn about the story, history, and mission of its life. Great About Us pages work to build a trustworthy relationship between the brand and the customer and shape a visual of a business with its name.

Brainstorm your ideas with these killer about page examples for your own personal website. 

A Blog/Feature Page

Here comes the option to showcase your talent through a webpage. If you choose to create a blog website, choose you blog niche and start optimising your blog with Dorik. 

What if you are an designer and you want to showcase your portfolio. Go for a featured page and feature your portfolios as pictures or videos. 

5. Design Your Pages

It is time to start customize your website layout without any code. Here you will get so many options to customize your site. And you don't need to look for free themes. Sound reliable, right?

Dorik also provides its customers with some basic tutorials to make their fully functional website. For the tutorials, visit Dorik's YouTube channel or visit Dorik Documentation.

Logo 

Creating an effective logo for a brand is all about adding a perfect visualization for its brand personality. A great logo design may contain an emblem, a logotype, and a tagline.

So, setting up a logo before customizing other features is essential. You can easily upload your logo from the navigation menu editing option.

Design and Pages

Go to the Design and Pages option from your dashboard.

You can see an already organized layout that you selected a bit ago as a template.

You can change this layout's pictures, colors, text, and many more things by dragging and dropping.

You will get an option for New Pages where you can create new pages to your website as you draw your content earlier in your mind. You also can link up your successful blog with the pages.

Blog

Go to Posts from your dashboard. You will find some default blogs are already set. You can Edit or Delete them. And also can Create New Posts.

While creating new blog, you can also set up your blog SEO.

Once you are done editing your blog, copy the link and link up with the respective section or page where you want to display.

Contact Us Form

Obviously, you would love to hear from your audience.

For this concern, you can add a contact form to your contact us page where you can include how you would like to hear from your audience. Through email or other options? You will get your "options" there.

Some bonus tips: Make sure you choose a primary theme color for your website and keep it clean and concise. Use easy-to-understand fonts and maintain sizes with headings. These web design ideas will help you to make an eye-soothing website. 

6. Publish

Once you have completed your editing, it's time to publish your website live. So before tapping on the "Publish" button, do not forget to Save your edits.

After publishing the domain, tap on the icon beside the publish button to see how it acts on google.

Hurray, you make it happen! 

7. Check if the Functionality Works

After publishing your website on Google, check if all the buttons, pages, and sections are working or not. 

If not, check what mistake you've made. Some of these no-code builder functions are so sensitive that they can't catch signals with little mistakes. 

Or else try on Dorik tutorials for better knowledge. However, Dorik support is live 24/7 to solve all your issues. 

8. Promote Your Website

It is high time to inform people about your presence on search engines. There are a ton of ways available to reach out to new people.

👉 Here I discussed on how to promote your website. I hope these work out on your project.

Dorik itself has some SEO (Search Engine Optimization) features to improve your site visitors. You also have to update your blogs and maintain on-page SEO and off-page SEO. It will help Google to crawl your presence.

On the other hand, social media marketing is a great method that lets us connect with new people daily. You can share your website blog links to your social media profiles and relevant communities to bring up your social media connections to your website.

9. Keep the Site Updated

The more you update your website, the more engagement you will get. Keep posting new blogs and portfolios. Keep reaching the emails that frequently visit your site to read more blogs.

Let your family and friends be up-to-date with your website’s new stories and news.

The Bottom Line

You already know how to make a personal website. Whatever you are, whatever you are doing, and whatever your niche is, never hesitate to build up your presence online.

Check some personal website examples to get better web design ideas to improve your website's UI/UX. 

The moment you start tracking your specialty through the website, your career improves.

If you ever find any problems, questions, or confusion, I am just a click away from you to help you more.

Good Luck!