Bidness

[gwyn]

Oh, flist that knows everything, I come to you with a question. I need to put up some kind of very basic web site with my resume, so that I can link to some of the work I've done that's available online (or put up some samples in hyperlinked pages, though I don't have a lot of that, as so much of what I've worked on was print). I have a domain and web site through A-plus that works well for me, but even though I'm paying a lot of money for the domain and such, I really don't want to connect my work stuff with my fannish stuff in any way.

I kind of hate the thought of having to pay yet more money to get another site and another domain. I can't use the one I get from my ISP, as that's already in use for my fanfiction (I never expected to get a fan site for vids this way, otherwise I'd have consolidated them long ago, but the idea of moving hundreds of stories over to the domain site with the vids and paying more money for more space makes me go into a slight fannish coma).

Are there any decent free services left out there where I could put something like that up? Would you recommend anything? I once had some stuff on geocities, but they gave me the blues, although since I wouldn't be dealing with copyright issues, I suppose things might be different.

Or should I just bite the bullet and get yet another domain? I can't even keep track of all this stuff! I have my home address, my Yahoo address, my gmail address, my vids site, my fanfic site... gah!

I'm just not sure where to go with this. I've never really had to do this kind of thing for work before, but if I intend to start freelancing more, having a resume that's easy to pass along and view for my contacts would be integral. I just... am running out of money, and running out time, and running out of a job!

Comments

[lamath.livejournal.com]

Honestly, just having a site for your resume doesn't seem like something that's very high-traffic/high-space intensive (unless you have vids as part of your portfolio?). In that case, getting a new domain name is probably around $8-$10/year, depending on your registrar, which shouldn't break your bank. Then, if your webhosting company offers the feature, get an Add-on domain (basically, all traffic from newdomain.com points to files in a subdomain/subdirectory of your main site, but the visitor doesn't get any info on the main site as far as I know). That seems like the cheapest solution to me. If one of your hosting packages isn't nearing the max and take a bit of extra traffic/space, that's probably the best method?