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#website #freewebsite

Okay, I have to admit, I'm a little shocked by this.

First, I'm going to convince you that you need a website.

And 2, after I've convinced you, I'll show you how to make a website right now for free.

Now when I say free, I mean free, no gimmicks, the server that we have to host our website on.

The way we build our website, which you could go out and learn HTML, JavaScript, CSS, like that'd be good for you, but you don't have to do that.

So the way we're going to build our website will be through the open source software WordPress.

Now, real Quick disclaimer, this right here will be for new beginner websites, websites that don't receive a lot of traffic because there will be limitations on bandwidth, storage features.

Now this will probably be the case for most of you, so no big deal.

But if people start to like your website and they probably will, this is where getting a paid option might come into play.

And when I say paid, I mean like a couple bucks a month and you'll get features like website backups, more bandwidth, more stores, more reliability.

And there are a ton of options out there, but we'll explore 1 of my favorites, Postinger.

They are the sponsor of this video, so if you wanna check them out, link below, we'll talk more about them later.

But first, why do you even need a website?

Cause I know you're probably thinking, man, Chuck, I'm a nobody.

Maybe you're a nobody because you don't have a website.

And that's my first reason why you need a website.

I totally understand that not everyone wants to stand out but there is 1 situation where you want to stand out like a glowing beacon and that's when you're looking for a job.

When HR and the hiring manager are looking through hundreds of resumes what's gonna make you different?

It ain't gonna be your Times New Roman font choice, your clever use of italics.

I would wager it's gonna be your website.

I've heard it said that websites, blogs, are the new resumes.

Now let me tell you something, when I was in charge of hiring network engineers and IT professionals, if I saw that you had a website on your resume, you were special.

I spent more time looking at you than the other applicants and I got to know you better.

I got to see your writing style, maybe a few videos, your creativity, your consistency.

It adds a new dimension to who you are to future employers.

And speaking of standing out, you're going to stand out if you have a website, because I already did the poll, right?

So just right now, if you make a website, you're going to win, right?

Now, a quick example is from 1 of my buddies here, Super Tal.

He's got a few blogs covering his ethical hacking journey.

Shoot, even a video attached so he's going above and beyond.

And then if I check the About Me, whoo, look at that Tinder photo.

It's just another dimension of the person you're trying to hire.

Now I know some of you are thinking, Chuck, man, I've got nothing to say.

People aren't gonna listen to me, who cares?

Reason number 2, you may not realize it and it may not happen immediately, but your website, your blog, will make a difference in someone's life.

You don't have to be a CCIE or an expert hacker or work for Microsoft to have a blog that makes a difference.

All you have to do is start right now and document your journey.

Maybe you're just starting your A+, your Network+, your CCNA, whatever.

Just start talking about what you're learning.

Talk about your study habits, talk about how hard it is.

Talk about your wins, your highs, your losses.

People like George Almazan and Amy Engineer, their blogs and their YouTube videos inspire the heck out of me.

Like they helped me with my cert journey and they inspired me to make this YouTube channel.

So real quick, think about all the people that inspire you, the blogs and the videos you watch.

You could be that person for someone else.

And all it has to be is just 1 person you help and that's worth it, right?

Once you start putting yourself out there and documenting your process and maybe teaching a few things, Like maybe you do a blog on ARP and DNS.

It could be that simple, it should be that simple.

Once you start doing that and you're giving back to people, man, reason number 3, it creates a ton of opportunity.

The most exciting part about making your own website is you never know what's going to happen.

You don't know who's gonna see it, you don't know who you're gonna help.

Because hey, it's just sitting out there, man.

While you're sleeping, you could be helping someone.

But every time you put yourself out there, you make a blog post, you make a video, whatever it is, it's 1 more chance to meet someone and help someone.

And every 1 of those could lead to an opportunity that might change your life.

Back when I first started, my stuff was terrible.

You can go back and watch my first few videos, or first 20, they sucked.

But I kept putting myself out there and now this is what I do for a living.

Putting myself out there, documenting my process and just helping people changed my life.

It's created a crazy amount of opportunities.

I've met people I never thought I'd meet.

And honestly, the worst thing that can happen is that nothing happens.

It's for new websites, low traffic, most of you, and that's fine.

Option number 2 will be if you want something a bit more professional.

You'll get the more premium features, and it's about 2 bucks a month, so it's not crazy.

So you can start with free, and you'll be fine, and you can move on to paid if you start to grow like crazy Or you can go ahead and start with paid because it's only 2 bucks a month and not a big deal Just don't forget to use code network Chuck with hosting here below.

You'll get 10% off Anyways, let's get started right now.

We're gonna be using 000webhost.com Now this almost doesn't even need a tutorial.

Just go to 0 0 0 webhost.com and then click on, get started.

And we are going to go with the free web hosting.

It's a lot for free, but there are limitations on this space and bandwidth and no support in case you break something, cause you might, and you do have to pay for a domain like networkchuck.com or bernardhackwell.com.

This is why a lot of people, including myself, will go with a paid option because you get things like unlimited websites, a lot of this space, unlimited bandwidth support, and you get a free domain thrown in.

So if you can afford it, 2 bucks a month, go for it.

Also, it's kind of wicked fast to set up.

Like we can do it right now while I'm sipping my coffee.

Ready, set, go add to car, coupon code, network, Chuck, 10% off.

So like my wicked, awesome theme and we're done.

And I know for a lot of you, this is the best place to start.

Go ahead and click free signup and sign up for an account.

Now, once you create your account, you should be here.

Go ahead and click on other is the easiest path to getting the setup select now, because this is free, you're going to have some ads.

Now this will be a website for Bernard Hackwell.

So I'll name this the Bernard click submit.

We're going to install WordPress, the open source website builder.

You'll set up your login for WordPress and then you're good to go.

Right now, it's installing WordPress on your free hosting service, your free server basically.

This over here is kind of your C panel where you can do administrative things for your website.

When this is complete right here, we're going to log into the WordPress dashboard and that's where we can make our website look pretty and it's getting pretty close to being done, but it's a perfect time for a coffee break.

I'm going to click on go to configuration page and start configuring the sucker go.

And now here we are at a WordPress dashboard and we're going to log into our website.

Like you've got your server, your free server.

Now you have to do is just make your website look cool, which is not too hard.

So if I go to my address bar up here, this is my domain name.

We haven't added anything to it yet, but we can change everything about how this looks.

I can scroll down and go to add new theme and shop for themes in the marketplace, which is mostly free.

Now this will not be a full on, hey, how do I use WordPress tutorial?

I just wanna get you started and show you how easy it is to host your own website, which again, was that hard?

Anyways, I'm gonna click on activate to activate my new theme, make it look awesome.

If I go over here and refresh my page, it should be there.

Cause right now it just says, hello world.

Here my dashboard I'll go to post, add new post.

I mean it's killer easy to blog I'm telling you.

So we added some text let's add a video block.

Now this is cool, but the only thing I don't like about this and you probably noticed too was our domain name.

It's the Bernard dot 000 web host app.com, but that's not ideal, right?

You want your own domain name, which you can do, but that is where the free stops.

And don't let anyone tell you differently.

If you want your own custom domain, you got to pay for it.

Now, thankfully, it's not crazy expensive.

I'll buy a domain right now and connect it to my free website.

So we're going to leave our WordPress dashboard and go back to our C panel where we installed WordPress.

Here again is where we can administer our website and do things like add a custom domain.

So I'll go to tools right here on the left, click on that and then click on set web address.

Now, if you have your own domain already, just add that sucker.

I bought a domain, but they did not like hackwell.tech.

So that's the free website, and even with the domain, it only cost me 99 cents, so let's just round down to free.

And real quick, if you're wanting some inspiration on hey, what should my website be like?

I'll show you a few fantastic examples from people that are amazing.

I asked a lot of you for your websites, so I'll be displaying some of these here in a bit.

But real quick, if you wanna go more pro with Hostinger, let's check that out real quick.

Now back here at the dashboard of my free website, you can see right here at the bottom, I have the option to upgrade, and you'll see that advertising a lot because this website, the 000webhost.com, is powered by Hostinger, which is pretty cool.

So again, if you don't need much more than what you see here, you're probably golden.

But for a couple bucks a month, I think it's pretty much worth it to upgrade.

So I'll go ahead and say get started down here.

Click start now and it just scrolls you down to the middle here.

And this 1 right here is my favorite, premium shared hosting, $2.19 a month.

And you can do a lot, like 100 websites, if you want 100 websites.

You also get a free domain, free SSL, unlimited bandwidth.

You'll get a better WordPress experience with acceleration, faster, and a bunch of other stuff.

Or you might care about them nines and I'm 0.9% uptime.

And to upgrade, just click on the button and upgrade Really no tutorial necessary.

Just click it and you pay for it and you're good.

I mean there's 1 thing you want to make sure you do.

Now this process is the same whether you're upgrading a free website from their 00webhost.com or if you're just gonna go straight to Hostinger.

Just don't forget to put the coupon code in because you get that discount.

And once you paid, it'll get your stuff ready and we'll rock here in a second.

And once you're signed up with Hostinger, all you gotta do is transfer your site over.

Now 1 of my favorite features of the paid plan is the fact that you can make up to 100 websites.

Now, 1 thing you may not know about me is that I have 5 kids, or almost 5 kids.

It's never too soon to start their branding.

So they each have their own website now and of course I'm gonna teach them how to use at least the 2 older ones.

These kiddos are too young right now but soon.

Now when I asked you guys hey do you have a website and all of you said no there were a few that actually had some amazing websites.

I'm going to show you those right now, just, you know, for some inspiration.

The first 1 is a guy named Raphael or a kid named Raphael.

Cause this guy's 13 years old, never too young to start this stuff.

His website is showing off that he likes to learn Python, JavaScript, CSS.

He's got a little questionnaire here telling us why he loves what he does.

He's got a blog post, why he did all this.

Like if I were hiring somebody, I'd be hiring this guy.

This is a super fancy website from George.

Clean, I can go to about me and, woo, look at that.

It's someone documenting their CCNA study.

And they're talking about Unicast ARP request a nice blog on that look at that packet captures Ethernet frames beat PDUs Bippy do's such a cool thing check out the about me good stuff preparing for their CCNA This is what I want to see.

I don't care how simple or stupid it might feel just to start talking about simple simple things.

Get creative, bring out some of your personality.

Oh man, gotta end that command on why I'm doing this.

This blog is chock full of really great stuff.

He was a finalist in the IT blog awards this year, 2020.

A lot of eyes on that blog just because he started doing stuff and he just documents what he does.

It's helpful for you, the community, and it shows prospective employers that, hey, This guy knows what he's talking about.

Notice it's not like super fancy, like it's nice.

But it's not crazy fancy and it doesn't have to be.

Here's another clean, simple, minimalist blog.

I love it, from Daniel Dibb, Lost in Transit.

Now You probably already know who he is if you don't you should go follow this blog He covers everything Cisco automation Python and just generally like how to do life how to study IT It's good stuff and he was a Cisco IT blog award winner back in 2018 along with myself That's all I can show now if I keep going this video will be super super long So I'm gonna stop right here, but I'll listen to my favorites in the description below anyways guys that's all I have today.

You can make 1 for free and it looks fantastic.

A full blown WordPress website on a free web host.

Yeah, you can get 1 for like 99 cents, not a big deal.

And if you want to go more pro, which is worth it, in my opinion, it is a couple of bucks a month.

You get a lot of features like all the websites you could ever want 100 backups and stuff.

So check out hosting or the sponsor of this video link below use code network chucking at 10% off.

I do my poll because right now it's sitting at 80% of people don't have a website that's pulling like 43,000 of you.

I want to see those numbers change drastically.

I want at least half of the ones I'm talking to right now make a website.

There's no reason you shouldn't have it anyways Yeah Let me know what you think of the video in the comments below Make sure we hack the YouTube algorithm today like that video subscribe Notification about all that YouTube II stuff and also once you make your website I would love to see it.

So go and put it in the comments because you're gonna make 1 right like right now Yeah, okay I'll see it here in a bit.

That's all I have I'll catch you guys next time


Speaker 0: Okay, I have to admit, I'm a little shocked by this. I asked you on YouTube. I asked you on Twitter. Hey, do you have a website? 80% of you do not have websites.

20% of you think you don't need 1. What are you guys doing? You need to make a website right now. Sorry for the noise. Okay, here we go.

I've got 2 goals in this video. First, I'm going to convince you that you need a website. I'll give you my best reasons. And 2, after I've convinced you, I'll show you how to make a website right now for free. I don't want you to have any excuses.

You're going to do it right now. Now when I say free, I mean free, no gimmicks, the server that we have to host our website on. It's free. The way we build our website, which you could go out and learn HTML, JavaScript, CSS, like that'd be good for you, but you don't have to do that. So the way we're going to build our website will be through the open source software WordPress.

And it's amazing. It's what I use to build my website. Now, real Quick disclaimer, this right here will be for new beginner websites, websites that don't receive a lot of traffic because there will be limitations on bandwidth, storage features. Now this will probably be the case for most of you, so no big deal. This is perfect.

But if people start to like your website and they probably will, this is where getting a paid option might come into play. And when I say paid, I mean like a couple bucks a month and you'll get features like website backups, more bandwidth, more stores, more reliability. And there are a ton of options out there, but we'll explore 1 of my favorites, Postinger. They are the sponsor of this video, so if you wanna check them out, link below, we'll talk more about them later. But first, why do you even need a website?

Cause I know you're probably thinking, man, Chuck, I'm a nobody. I don't need 1 like this guy right here. I'm a nobody. I don't need a website. Maybe you're a nobody because you don't have a website.

And that's my first reason why you need a website. Reason. Number 1, you want to stand out. Now. I totally understand that not everyone wants to stand out but there is 1 situation where you want to stand out like a glowing beacon and that's when you're looking for a job.

When HR and the hiring manager are looking through hundreds of resumes what's gonna make you different? What's gonna make you stand out? What's gonna make them pick you? It ain't gonna be your Times New Roman font choice, your clever use of italics. I would wager it's gonna be your website.

I've heard it said that websites, blogs, are the new resumes. Now let me tell you something, when I was in charge of hiring network engineers and IT professionals, if I saw that you had a website on your resume, you were special. And what would I do then? I would go look at your website. I spent more time looking at you than the other applicants and I got to know you better.

I got to see your writing style, maybe a few videos, your creativity, your consistency. It adds a new dimension to who you are to future employers. And speaking of standing out, you're going to stand out if you have a website, because I already did the poll, right? 80% of you don't have websites. So just right now, if you make a website, you're going to win, right?

Like that's obvious. Now, a quick example is from 1 of my buddies here, Super Tal. He's got a few blogs covering his ethical hacking journey. Shoot, even a video attached so he's going above and beyond. And then if I check the About Me, whoo, look at that Tinder photo.

Love it. It's just another dimension of the person you're trying to hire. It makes me want to hire you. Now I know some of you are thinking, Chuck, man, I've got nothing to say. People aren't gonna listen to me, who cares?

That's stupid, people will care. Reason number 2, you may not realize it and it may not happen immediately, but your website, your blog, will make a difference in someone's life. You don't have to be a CCIE or an expert hacker or work for Microsoft to have a blog that makes a difference. All you have to do is start right now and document your journey. Maybe you're just starting your A+, your Network+, your CCNA, whatever.

Just start talking about what you're learning. Talk about your study habits, talk about how hard it is. Talk about your wins, your highs, your losses. Doing that will change someone's life. Can I tell you a secret?

That's how I got started on YouTube. People like George Almazan and Amy Engineer, their blogs and their YouTube videos inspire the heck out of me. Like they helped me with my cert journey and they inspired me to make this YouTube channel. So real quick, think about all the people that inspire you, the blogs and the videos you watch. You could be that person for someone else.

And all it has to be is just 1 person you help and that's worth it, right? Now let me tell you something. Once you start putting yourself out there and documenting your process and maybe teaching a few things, Like maybe you do a blog on ARP and DNS. It could be that simple, it should be that simple. You should do that right now.

Once you start doing that and you're giving back to people, man, reason number 3, it creates a ton of opportunity. The most exciting part about making your own website is you never know what's going to happen. You don't know who's gonna see it, you don't know who you're gonna help. Because hey, it's just sitting out there, man. While you're sleeping, you could be helping someone.

And that thought is crazy. But every time you put yourself out there, you make a blog post, you make a video, whatever it is, it's 1 more chance to meet someone and help someone. And every 1 of those could lead to an opportunity that might change your life. Dude, I'm a primary example. I could be talking to myself right now.

Back when I first started, my stuff was terrible. You can go back and watch my first few videos, or first 20, they sucked. Time to turn my stuff on. But I kept putting myself out there and now this is what I do for a living. Putting myself out there, documenting my process and just helping people changed my life.

It's created a crazy amount of opportunities. I've met people I never thought I'd meet. And honestly, the worst thing that can happen is that nothing happens. And right now that's already happening. So you have no excuse, just do it.

So are you convinced? Are you? Good. Let's make a free website right now. Now again, I'm gonna show you 2 options.

Option 1 is completely free. It's for new websites, low traffic, most of you, and that's fine. Option number 2 will be if you want something a bit more professional. You'll get the more premium features, and it's about 2 bucks a month, so it's not crazy. So you can start with free, and you'll be fine, and you can move on to paid if you start to grow like crazy Or you can go ahead and start with paid because it's only 2 bucks a month and not a big deal Just don't forget to use code network Chuck with hosting here below.

You'll get 10% off Anyways, let's get started right now. Step 1 our free server. We're gonna be using 000webhost.com Now this almost doesn't even need a tutorial. It's pretty freaking easy. Just go to 0 0 0 webhost.com and then click on, get started.

And we are going to go with the free web hosting. Now look at this for a second. It's a lot for free, but there are limitations on this space and bandwidth and no support in case you break something, cause you might, and you do have to pay for a domain like networkchuck.com or bernardhackwell.com. This is why a lot of people, including myself, will go with a paid option because you get things like unlimited websites, a lot of this space, unlimited bandwidth support, and you get a free domain thrown in. So if you can afford it, 2 bucks a month, go for it.

This is what I recommend. Also, it's kind of wicked fast to set up. Like we can do it right now while I'm sipping my coffee. Ready, set, go add to car, coupon code, network, Chuck, 10% off. Go get my free domain.

Go check out, get started. We'll use WordPress. So like my wicked, awesome theme and we're done. Wicked awesome website right now. Now free.

It's not as easy, but Hey, it's free. And I know for a lot of you, this is the best place to start. So let's go, let's get this thing going. Go ahead and click free signup and sign up for an account. Now, once you create your account, you should be here.

Go ahead and click on other is the easiest path to getting the setup select now, because this is free, you're going to have some ads. No worries. We'll deal with that later. If you don't want them, click on skip. Now this will be a website for Bernard Hackwell.

He doesn't have a website yet. Come on dude. So I'll name this the Bernard click submit. And then 1 last piece. And that's pretty much it.

We're going to install WordPress, the open source website builder. It's amazing. Go ahead and select that. You'll set up your login for WordPress and then you're good to go. Click install.

Now seriously, that's all you need. Right now, it's installing WordPress on your free hosting service, your free server basically. This over here is kind of your C panel where you can do administrative things for your website. When this is complete right here, we're going to log into the WordPress dashboard and that's where we can make our website look pretty and it's getting pretty close to being done, but it's a perfect time for a coffee break. Network Chuck.coffee.

Check it out. Link below. All right. Mine is done. I'm going to click on go to configuration page and start configuring the sucker go.

And now here we are at a WordPress dashboard and we're going to log into our website. And that's pretty much it. Like you've got your server, your free server. We installed WordPress. Now you have to do is just make your website look cool, which is not too hard.

I mean, check this out. If I go to my website. So if I go to my address bar up here, this is my domain name. Let's go take a look at it real quick. And there it is.

I mean, kind of sparse, right? We haven't added anything to it yet, but we can change everything about how this looks. Let's go change our theme. I'll go to appearance themes. I can scroll down and go to add new theme and shop for themes in the marketplace, which is mostly free.

I'll get some popular ones real quick. Let's find a super cool 1. Ooh, I like this 1, Signify Dark. I'm gonna install that. Now this will not be a full on, hey, how do I use WordPress tutorial?

No, there are other videos for that. I just wanna get you started and show you how easy it is to host your own website, which again, was that hard? It wasn't too bad, right? Anyways, I'm gonna click on activate to activate my new theme, make it look awesome. If I go over here and refresh my page, it should be there.

Oh yeah. Look at that. Let's customize that a bit. All right. Change the image, change some text.

Let's add a few blog posts. Cause right now it just says, hello world. Let's add a few right now. Here my dashboard I'll go to post, add new post. I mean it's killer easy to blog I'm telling you.

Let's name this 1 proxy chains. Just start typing. So we added some text let's add a video block. YouTube that there it is. Paste that in there, embed it.

Oh yeah. And we'll publish that. Publish and do just like that. I got a post on the web. Proxy chains.

Boom. Crazy simple. Now this is cool, but the only thing I don't like about this and you probably noticed too was our domain name. I mean, it's fine right now. It's the Bernard dot 000 web host app.com, but that's not ideal, right?

You want your own domain name, which you can do, but that is where the free stops. And don't let anyone tell you differently. If you want your own custom domain, you got to pay for it. Now, thankfully, it's not crazy expensive.

Speaker 1: In fact, I'll show you

Speaker 0: right now. I'll buy a domain right now and connect it to my free website. Super simple, let's do it. So we're going to leave our WordPress dashboard and go back to our C panel where we installed WordPress. Here again is where we can administer our website and do things like add a custom domain.

So I'll go to tools right here on the left, click on that and then click on set web address. Now, if you have your own domain already, just add that sucker. If you don't, let's go buy 1. We'll do that right now. Purchase a new domain.

Search for it. What should it be? Hackwell.com. Let's see if they have that. Ooh, hackwell.tech.

It's only 99 cents. Let's get that sucker. Okay. I bought a domain, but they did not like hackwell.tech. Can't use the word hack.

They don't like that. So I went with thebernard.tech. There we go. Custom domain, just like that. Only cost me 99 cents, that's killer.

So that's the free website, and even with the domain, it only cost me 99 cents, so let's just round down to free. And real quick, if you're wanting some inspiration on hey, what should my website be like? How should it look? What should I do to it? What should I add to it?

Where should my resume be? I'll show you a few fantastic examples from people that are amazing. I asked a lot of you for your websites, so I'll be displaying some of these here in a bit. But real quick, if you wanna go more pro with Hostinger, let's check that out real quick. Now back here at the dashboard of my free website, you can see right here at the bottom, I have the option to upgrade, and you'll see that advertising a lot because this website, the 000webhost.com, is powered by Hostinger, which is pretty cool.

So again, if you don't need much more than what you see here, you're probably golden. But for a couple bucks a month, I think it's pretty much worth it to upgrade. So I'll go ahead and say get started down here. Click start now and it just scrolls you down to the middle here. And this 1 right here is my favorite, premium shared hosting, $2.19 a month.

And you can do a lot, like 100 websites, if you want 100 websites. You also get a free domain, free SSL, unlimited bandwidth. You'll get a better WordPress experience with acceleration, faster, and a bunch of other stuff. Like, Hey, I jacked up my website. Good thing I have weekly backups.

Or you might care about them nines and I'm 0.9% uptime. So yeah, good option. And to upgrade, just click on the button and upgrade Really no tutorial necessary. Just click it and you pay for it and you're good. I mean there's 1 thing you want to make sure you do.

Down here for, do you have a coupon? Enter 1. It's going to be NetworkChuck. Discount! Now this process is the same whether you're upgrading a free website from their 00webhost.com or if you're just gonna go straight to Hostinger.

Just don't forget to put the coupon code in because you get that discount. And once you paid, it'll get your stuff ready and we'll rock here in a second. And once you're signed up with Hostinger, all you gotta do is transfer your site over. It's pretty easy and you're golden. Now 1 of my favorite features of the paid plan is the fact that you can make up to 100 websites.

Now, 1 thing you may not know about me is that I have 5 kids, or almost 5 kids. 1 is currently brewing. Actually, she is done brewing. Here she is right here. But yeah, all girls.

And I thought, you know what? It's never too soon to start their branding. So they each have their own website now and of course I'm gonna teach them how to use at least the 2 older ones. These kiddos are too young right now but soon. Now when I asked you guys hey do you have a website and all of you said no there were a few that actually had some amazing websites.

I'm going to show you those right now, just, you know, for some inspiration. Here we go. The first 1 is a guy named Raphael or a kid named Raphael. Cause this guy's 13 years old, never too young to start this stuff. His website is showing off that he likes to learn Python, JavaScript, CSS.

He's got a little questionnaire here telling us why he loves what he does. He's got a blog post, why he did all this. He's got a projects page. I mean, this is cool. Like if I were hiring somebody, I'd be hiring this guy.

He's awesome. This is a super fancy website from George. And this thing is awesome. Clean, I can go to about me and, woo, look at that. Showing off his key skills.

Let's take a look at his projects. Look at all of them. Oh, look at that. That's awesome. Let's go look at his life.

Oh, now that's clean, isn't it? Look at that. Clean resume right here on the webpage. This 1 I love. It's someone documenting their CCNA study.

And they're talking about Unicast ARP request a nice blog on that look at that packet captures Ethernet frames beat PDUs Bippy do's such a cool thing check out the about me good stuff preparing for their CCNA This is what I want to see. I want to see you do this. I don't care how simple or stupid it might feel just to start talking about simple simple things. Everyone starts somewhere man. Everyone.

I like this 1. Nice and clean, cyber-psych related. Look at this thing. So nice. ESXi on Raspberry Pi.

Ooh. Let's go to about. Oh man, look at this. This is cool. Get creative, bring out some of your personality.

Like look at this. Who am I? Oh man, gotta end that command on why I'm doing this. That's cool. Great job.

No Blinky Blinky, my buddy, AJ Murray. This blog is chock full of really great stuff. I mean, look at this. He was a finalist in the IT blog awards this year, 2020. See opportunity.

A lot of eyes on that blog just because he started doing stuff and he just documents what he does. It's helpful for you, the community, and it shows prospective employers that, hey, This guy knows what he's talking about. And I want you to notice 1 thing here. Notice it's not like super fancy, like it's nice. Like AJ, don't get me wrong, it's nice.

But it's not crazy fancy and it doesn't have to be. Let's go to meet the blogger. Oh yeah, there's that Tinder photo. Here's another clean, simple, minimalist blog. I love it, from Daniel Dibb, Lost in Transit.

Now You probably already know who he is if you don't you should go follow this blog He covers everything Cisco automation Python and just generally like how to do life how to study IT It's good stuff and he was a Cisco IT blog award winner back in 2018 along with myself That's all I can show now if I keep going this video will be super super long So I'm gonna stop right here, but I'll listen to my favorites in the description below anyways guys that's all I have today. You need a website right now. You can make 1 for free and it looks fantastic. A full blown WordPress website on a free web host. Do you want that custom domain name?

Yeah, you can get 1 for like 99 cents, not a big deal. And if you want to go more pro, which is worth it, in my opinion, it is a couple of bucks a month. You get a lot of features like all the websites you could ever want 100 backups and stuff. So check out hosting or the sponsor of this video link below use code network chucking at 10% off.

Speaker 1: But yeah, the next time

Speaker 0: I do my poll because right now it's sitting at 80% of people don't have a website that's pulling like 43,000 of you. I want to see those numbers change drastically. I want at least half of the ones I'm talking to right now make a website. There's no reason you shouldn't have it anyways Yeah Let me know what you think of the video in the comments below Make sure we hack the YouTube algorithm today like that video subscribe Notification about all that YouTube II stuff and also once you make your website I would love to see it. So go and put it in the comments because you're gonna make 1 right like right now Yeah, okay I'll see it here in a bit.

Okay for real. That's all I have I'll catch you guys next time

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