Personal development with web hosting

Web hosting is a blank canvas over which you can take control. So it's not a static thing, and if you start with a website for yourself or do a hobby project, you'll soon find that you're often asked to help with other projects. So your personal development also goes hand in hand with this, the longer you host websites and the more often you tackle different projects. Let's take a look at how your web hosting package supports your personal development as a webmaster and Internet marketer.

Creating a website

Your first website often starts with a project you've had in mind for a long time, such as a blog, a website for your startup idea, or simply a personal freelancer profile to showcase your work. The first website can be programmed with a Bootstrap template, with a content management system or for many still manually. However, content management systems are the best solution for most situations and are also easier to scale as your portfolio grows.

By far the most popular content management system is WordPress. WordPress makes it easy to create a website using themes and easy content handling. And in most cases, you can update your site to the latest versions with the click of a button. And it even does it automatically. This makes it suitable for running websites for long periods of time. Of course, that's often the intention.

Organic development of a website

A website has an organic progression that often starts with a Coming Soon! Page and sometimes ends with many hundreds of pages. For most websites, that's still a lot of work and dedication. Think of the biggest paper or report you've ever written. A website can contain many times more information, text, images, and files. However, most websites will be limited to less than 10 pages.

So with a weekly blog post, you can expect as few as 52 new pages per year. The longer your site ages, the more content and pages will be added. You can keep track of this for yourself and for the search engines by keeping sitemap.xml up to date. And learning from it yourself. In large companies, there are entire departments dedicated to inventorying and improving existing pages on a website.

Content creation and improvement

Creating and improving content is a subject where we learn more and more over the years. First, by gaining more experience in creating content ourselves. Whether it's in image form or written form. And learning what works and what doesn't on your website. Just look at the most popular pages on your site in terms of visits and results, and you'll immediately know which articles and pages are most likely to match what visitors are looking for on your site.

There are also numerous courses you can take to improve content and its role. For example, see the blog post from a while back about SEMRUSH's certifications. A popular SEO and internet marketing tool.

Interaction with visitors

Visitor interaction is obviously important for any website. If you don't target your website, you might as well just host it locally. As a webmaster, you are therefore also responsible for keeping the website up to date with the latest technology and adapting it to the latest screen sizes, for example. Let's take 4K screens or a popular new resolution for smartphones as an example.

If the interaction between a website and a visitor is positive, the visitor is more likely to convert or take some other desired action.

Other projects and multiple domains

When your first website grows, it often happens that it doesn't just stay there, but that other domains and thus other websites are added. With any hosting plan you will need the ability to grow, more on this below. Multiple domains will be the first step for many webmasters. Every idea starts with a domain name, of course. You can register domains for new markets you want to enter with your existing website. Like a .de domain name or .be. And of course you can register a domain name for another project.

All domains can be registered at MijnHostingPartner.nl for a very reasonable price. For only € 2,50 plus VAT you can register a .nl .be or .eu for the first year!

A fixed factor, your hosting partner

In your personal development as a webmaster and internet marketeer you of course need a fixed partner who is there for you in the background. With our extremely high uptime of 99.99 percent and worldwide DNS solution, your website will not only always be online, but also fast and reliable. Take a look at our different packages to see all the possibilities. And if you still have a question, you can always visit our online chat.