Setting up your own personal portfolio can be intimidating to someone who is new to the world of creating webpages. Even to somebody who has played around with creating webpages, it can be a tricky task. Creating a website is easy. Creating a website that looks good and consistently receives traffic and generates leads for you, now that requires skill.

Luckily, you have a huge asset waiting to be tapped into. The best host and domain provider is GoDaddy.com. GoDaddy’s customer service is legendary. Make a phone call to them and they will pick up the phone within minutes. Their team will address any questions you have, no matter how technical.

The best part about GoDaddy is that their prices are extremely affordable. You can secure your domain name for only $.99. That is 99 cents, not dollars! From there, you can secure web hosting for only one dollar per month- $1 per month!

Setting up your portfolio once you have bought the domain and established GoDaddy as your host takes some skill. If you have never done this before, playing around with GoDaddy’s web builder can be fun, but a little frustrating. Instead, for the complete novice, you most likely want to get your hands on template that you can simply customize and make your own. Whether you use one you find off of the Internet or have a more web-savvy friend design something for you, it will be easy after that to learn how to modify it.

Get a tutorial or have a friend sit down with you and teach you how to modify the site’s content without drastically altering its code. Of course, to do this, you will need to upgrade from GoDaddy’s basic web builder plan, but it is seriously worth the cost- how else do you get a portfolio worth showing to potential employers?

If you take the time to invest in your site, it will show. You want to put enough effort into this so that it is something worth linking to people. Otherwise, when you start sharing it, you will be showing them that you are a subpar individual not worth hiring.