I previously wrote about Why Everyone Should Have Theier Own Website and how it helps people learn more and have a appearance online. I want to focus this article on the skills that you gain from running your own website because they are all very important skills and they help you become more marketable to future employers. I truely believe that websites not only benifit the user with potential ad revenue but, also  gives them all the leg up on the competitition in the job market by gaining exteremly valuable skills.

1. Writing

Obviously all websites have some written content whether it is just a about me page or a daily blog. You not only how to write properly from having a website, but you also develop your own writing style which is very important for many jobs. You also are able to recieve feedback from readers and get critics about your writing style and can change your style accordingly and learn from the changes.

2. Marketing

When running your own website, your mission should not be just to create a website and put good content on it, but you should also intend tio get people to view and use your website and interact with your content. This cause people to research methods of promoting your content and developing a method of promoting even a simple personal website and drive more content to your site.

3. Web Development

Obviously when you create a website you learn web development skills, such as coding, management and many others that can help you in the future. Even if you use a CMS, setting up and managing a CMS is a skill especially when you have a large volume of traffic. This can be very benifical to your future careers and paychecks!

4. Design

Design is an extremely important skill not only on websites but for anything because if you want to make something like a flyer, that gets people’s attention, you want to design it well so it attracts peoples’ attention and gives them a good first impression otherwsie, people will ignore it and you wasted your time. When you have a website, you learn quickly that a site with yellow text on a green background does not look good, no matter how much you try and it will look horrible. You want the website to look good and attract viewers and you should take those skills and apply them to your offline life.

5. Organization

Web development is a naturally organized process because if you want to do the simplest thing like making a link to another page, you need to know the exact location of the file and the exact file name, for example, if you want to link to “about.html” and you make the link to About.html, then the link will not work and that is why organization is so important. Besides just organizing the files on the server, you need to organize yourself and your content because you will not be sucessful if you are not organized, and if you are unorganized, running a website will make you learn to be organized.

6. Journalistic Integerty and Ethics

Although everyone has the right to freedom of speech and press , as a webmaster you should look at and evaluate both sides of the issue to give a fair accessment. As a webmaster, you need to understantand Journalistic Integerty and ethics because it is your duty to be fair and ethical otherwise, viewers of your site will question your integrety and could ruin the image of your website.

I hope that this article helped anyone who was on the fence about starting their own website because it gives you many skills and can be very benificial and although I listed the most important you gain so much. Websites help people market themselves and can earn more money with their new skills.