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Personal website design Somebody is going to Google your name
Before a job interview, a first meeting or a contract, someone types your name into a search box. A personal website is how you decide what they find, instead of leaving it to whichever platform ranks best this year.
- typical build
- 4 to 6 weeks
- personal sites from
- €1,500
Our credentials
- NCI Computing & AI graduate
- Code Institute certified
- Registered in Ireland
- Shopify Partner
- Bluehost Partner
- Based in Westmeath, working Ireland wide
- Free SSL and hosting setup
What you get
One page you own, on a domain nobody can take away
Every profile you have is rented. The platform decides the layout, the audience, the advertising beside it and whether the whole thing still exists in three years. A personal site is small, cheap and permanent.
- Your own domain Ideally your name, held in your account rather than ours. It is the part that has to outlast us.
- A current summary What you do now, in a short paragraph. Not a career history nobody is going to read.
- The work itself Or the closest thing to it you are allowed to show, which is usually more than people think.
- Links out to your profiles To the ones you actually keep up, so a single address covers everything.
- A contact route you own Not a platform's inbox that you will lose access to along with the account.
- Something that lasts This is the smallest kind of site we build and often the longest-lived. Some have had one job title changed in years.
Three people who need one
Jobseekers, where the site is a CV that cannot be lost in a stack. Freelancers, where it decides whether the enquiry is worth having. Speakers and writers, where the bio and the photo get reused by other people. Different reasons, the same three pages underneath.
What people check
What someone is actually looking for
They are not reading. They are scanning for reasons to stop worrying, and they have given you somewhere between ten and thirty seconds to provide them.
- Is this the same person? The one they are meeting on Thursday. A current photograph does most of this on its own.
- Have they done this before? This kind of work, not work in general. Specific beats impressive every time.
- Does anyone vouch for them? A named client, a publication, a body you belong to. One real name beats five logos.
- Anything embarrassing here? They are checking for a reason not to proceed. Give them nothing to find.
- How do I contact them? Directly. An email address, not a form that says thanks and disappears.
- What they will not do Read your full career history, watch a showreel, download anything, or fill in a form to say hello.
Who we build for
See Our Work
What you want it to do
The three pages underneath are much the same. What changes is who is arriving, what they are nervous about, and what you want to happen next.
Honest pricing
What a personal website costs
The simplest thing we build, priced accordingly. A single page done properly often beats five pages of padding, and it costs less.
- Personal website Live in 4 to 6 weeks
- from €1,500
- SSL and hosting setup Sorted before you go live
- included
- Care plan If you would rather not touch it
- from €49/month
Fixed, written quotes. No hidden fees.
How it works
How we build a personal site
This is the smallest thing we build, so it is also the quickest. You deal with one person, and most personal sites are live well inside 4 to 6 weeks.
Step 1 of 5
A quick call
One short call to work out who is going to search for you, and what you want them to find.
- Who is looking: recruiters, clients, editors or all three
- What currently comes up when someone searches your name
- Whether this needs to stay quiet while you are still employed
- A fixed written quote on that call, and a date to have it up by
Step 2 of 5
Domain and name
We register the domain in your account, not ours. It is the one part of this that has to outlive the website.
- Your name as the domain where it is still available
- Registered in your own account, with the login handed to you
- Email on the domain if you want it, rather than a free address
- The old profiles you keep, and the ones worth letting go
Step 3 of 5
Words and work
We draft the bio and you correct it. Writing about yourself is the part almost everyone gets stuck on.
- A short current summary, written to be read in under a minute
- The work itself, or the closest thing you are permitted to show
- A photograph that looks like you now, not eight years ago
- Links out to the profiles you actually keep up
Step 4 of 5
Checked and live
Opened on a phone, because that is where a recruiter or a client will read it between meetings.
- Readable end to end on a phone in under a minute
- Kept out of search entirely if you are still employed
- SSL, hosting and a contact route sorted before you go live
- Your name checked in search once it has been indexed
Step 5 of 5
Keeping it current
Change a job title in two minutes. Most people touch it once a year and that is fine.
- Shown how to change a job title before we hand over
- You own the site, the domain and the content
- Ring or email us when you are stuck, with no ticket system
- A care plan from €49 a month, or just the domain renewal reminder
Related services
What else you might want
A personal site is often the first thing someone asks us for and rarely the last. The same person builds each piece.
- CV and resume websites One page a recruiter can read in under a minute, and keep out of search while you job hunt. CV website design
- Freelancer websites Built to qualify the enquiry before it reaches you, so you stop quoting for work you do not want. Freelancer web design
- Business Website Design For when the personal site has outgrown itself and there is a business behind it now. Business websites
- Website redesign Keep the address people already have for you and rebuild what sits behind it. Redesign an existing site
- SEO optimisation Aimed at your own name first, which is the search that actually matters here. SEO in Ireland
- Maintenance and support Updates, backups and a renewal you will not forget about until the domain has lapsed. Care plans
Starting small is fine
Most people begin with one page and a domain, then add the work once there is some worth showing. Nothing here has to be finished before it goes up.
FAQs
Questions people ask before building one
Straight answers on name clashes, domains, LinkedIn and how personal to get.
Someone else already comes up when you search my name. Can I do anything about that?
Usually yes, and it takes months rather than weeks. A site on your own name, linked from the profiles you already control, is the strongest single signal you can send about which of you is which. If the other person is genuinely more famous, aim for your name plus your field instead, which is what people who want you are searching anyway.
Should the domain be my name?
If it is available, take it, even if you build nothing for a year. Your name is the one domain nobody else can justify better than you, it never goes out of date, and it costs about fifteen euro a year. Everything else is a second choice.
I already have LinkedIn. What does a site of my own add?
Control, mostly. LinkedIn decides what your page looks like, who sees it, what sits beside it and whether it exists next year. A site on your own domain is the one place online you own outright, and it is the thing you point at from everywhere else.
How much of it should be personal?
Enough to sound like a person and not so much that you would mind a client reading it. The useful test is whether you would say the sentence out loud at a work event. Most people either write a corporate biography nobody remembers or a diary entry, and the middle is where it works.
Tell us what you want found
Send us your name and what you do, and we will come back with what we would build and a fixed price, usually within 24 hours.
- A domain in your name, in your account
- A fixed written quote before any work starts
- Live in 4 to 6 weeks
- We reply within 24 hours