Does Your Website Show the True You?
We all are aware that we only get one chance to make a good first impression. That is why we all do what we can to get ready when we are going out to meet people for the first time. And when we are readying ourselves for that first date with someone that might be the right one for us we manage to often take hours to make sure everything is perfect before we leave the house. We dress for success when we go for a job interview because it might be the chance to land that once in a lifetime job we have been after forever.
So why is it that when we put ourselves on the Internet that things get sloppy? Look at almost anyone’s Face book or My Space page and you’ll see what I mean. Pictures of us partying and having a good time with friends and family abound. But guess what? Anyone could see that. This could even be a perspective soul mate or employer. So why do we take less than prudent measures to look decent?
Person and business websites are the same idea. People are likely to visit them looking for what you have to offer and if what they see turns them off they can just as easily navigate to another website that is more to their liking.
All of this boils down to the fact that when you look at your web presence you need to be sure that what you are seeing is what you want the rest of the world to see when they find that page.
People searching the web may come across your page by accident. People looking to get their Green card Renewal taken care of or in search of US immigration forms are not going to understand why your website looks terrible. They have yet to take the US citizenship exam and what you are showing them might be totally foreign to them in many ways and not just in language.
SO the best advice that can be given here is that every time you visit your web area. Whether that is a personal or business website or a social networking area, you need to look at it with fresh eyes. I am betting that if you have a website or networking page and you were to go there everyday and look at it with a different mindset, that you would likely find something that you would chance almost every time that you visit it.
The reason behind that is that websites are rather static. You put something up there and it stays. The problem is that humans are not static. We constantly change and evolve and the result is that we need to put that resolve into our web areas and make them more of a three dimensional extension of the being that we are rather than a one dimensional representation of who we think we are. If you can do that, then you will have a great website that shows the true you.