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It is very important for every jobseeker to have a professional website. I don't mean that you have to have a professional create one for you. I mean that you must have a good-looking, professional site that represents your skills, talents, and showcases your service offerings.

I highly recommend that your resume be available on the site, but it is vitally important to your career that you showcase each of your service offerings properly.

Your site should be split into sections based on the skills you have and each section should be treated like its own mini-site. Let's go into detail about this concept,  We'll select a few of the Businesses in a Box and outline how a person could set up his or her site based on this approach.

Let's assume that you are a person that has the following skills: data entry, internet research, and writing.
Compile database of targeted leads for companies to use for their sales and marketing efforts; Offer an all-in-one mail or email merge service to local or online businesses; and, Specialize in writing and editing website content, for particular industries.

The first step you'll need to take is to either design your site layout, or purchase a professional template at a very low cost.
Hint: Many designers will use templates as a time-saving measure. It costs a lot less to buy a professionally developed template than to start from scratch. 

Templates allow newbies to have beautiful websites, even if you don't know beans about web design!
We recommend a BoxedArt membership. At $49.95 per year, you get unlimited downloads of thousands of very high quality templates, rather than buying your templates one at a time.

Your first page of your website, the doorway page, will be quite simple. It will lead to all the sections of your site, and it will be very short and sweet.

Home: This is your home page, the main leading page of your site. You should include a couple of brief paragraphs about you, and focus on making this an introduction of who you are and what you do.
You would name this page index.html (or index.htm or default.htm or default.html, depending on your webhost. Each webhost designates a unique method of naming your doorway page, and you'll need to check with your webhost about how they need you to name this page so that when someone types in www.yourdomain.com they will get to your site).