Mixing personal and professional?
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A friend raised a point today about my personal website. It's mainly a site of tech related stuff where I post about programming projects, or stuff I'm working on, but I also have pictures from my wedding, and some galleries from other things, like days out with the family, etc. He said that the wedding and personal pics should be removed because it would put employers off especially given that I've just started freelance work. I thought that perhaps employers would benefit from a fully rounded view of an individual. (I am of course building a proper company website that obviously will be entirely professional and will not include any wedding pics) What do you guys think? Do you keep personal and tech separate to avoid potential employers seeing, or do you just mix them all up.
Simon [Need a software dev?]
Eh, only programmers go to my website. All of my business it gotten from face to face and calling.
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Man, pay no mind to detractors and do as you please...I mean, have you ever seen Scott Hanselman's website? I personally upload that kind of stuff to my blog so I can see them and review what I thought at the moment. If a company thinks that it is not professional, goto h%$^l!, I work for my family, not for looking professional! PS: h%$^l: puts("hell"); // ;P
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That's true, but sometimes when you get well known you can break the rules. (I'm not saying there are rules, but just that you can get away with more when everyone knows your good) I would also count Scott's website as personal (like my current one), running a company should definitely be separate. The trouble is as a small company there isn't a huge distinction between personal and professional life, so perhaps it is better to be entirely professional even on the personal site.
Simon [Need a software dev?]
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Man, pay no mind to detractors and do as you please...I mean, have you ever seen Scott Hanselman's website? I personally upload that kind of stuff to my blog so I can see them and review what I thought at the moment. If a company thinks that it is not professional, goto h%$^l!, I work for my family, not for looking professional! PS: h%$^l: puts("hell"); // ;P
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Soulus83 wrote:
I mean, have you ever seen Scott Hanselman's website?
Ah, yes - that makes everything ok... of course - why didn't we think of that? :laugh:
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Eh, only programmers go to my website. All of my business it gotten from face to face and calling.
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. I also do Android Programming as I find it a refreshing break from the MS. "And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs" -- Robert Frost
I bet after you hand them your business card they check out your website though. It might not be what draws in the leads, but I'm sure it plays a part in their impression of you. Love the new site by the way - "Results so good we don't need a flashy website." (Although did you know your navigation links don't work without javascript?)
Simon [Need a software dev?]
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Where exactly DO you buy pink tuxedos for your penguins? :confused:
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932From pinkpenguintuxedos.com of course! :rolleyes: :-D
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A friend raised a point today about my personal website. It's mainly a site of tech related stuff where I post about programming projects, or stuff I'm working on, but I also have pictures from my wedding, and some galleries from other things, like days out with the family, etc. He said that the wedding and personal pics should be removed because it would put employers off especially given that I've just started freelance work. I thought that perhaps employers would benefit from a fully rounded view of an individual. (I am of course building a proper company website that obviously will be entirely professional and will not include any wedding pics) What do you guys think? Do you keep personal and tech separate to avoid potential employers seeing, or do you just mix them all up.
Simon [Need a software dev?]
Nah, takre em off, its unprofessional.
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Eh, only programmers go to my website. All of my business it gotten from face to face and calling.
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. I also do Android Programming as I find it a refreshing break from the MS. "And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs" -- Robert Frost
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A friend raised a point today about my personal website. It's mainly a site of tech related stuff where I post about programming projects, or stuff I'm working on, but I also have pictures from my wedding, and some galleries from other things, like days out with the family, etc. He said that the wedding and personal pics should be removed because it would put employers off especially given that I've just started freelance work. I thought that perhaps employers would benefit from a fully rounded view of an individual. (I am of course building a proper company website that obviously will be entirely professional and will not include any wedding pics) What do you guys think? Do you keep personal and tech separate to avoid potential employers seeing, or do you just mix them all up.
Simon [Need a software dev?]
I'd be inclined to agree with your friend. Like mixing FaceBook and LinkedIn. My as-yet-pitifully-inadequate blog will never have personal stuff on it, not even a discussion of my new favourite album. That I will keep for my personal blog.
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A friend raised a point today about my personal website. It's mainly a site of tech related stuff where I post about programming projects, or stuff I'm working on, but I also have pictures from my wedding, and some galleries from other things, like days out with the family, etc. He said that the wedding and personal pics should be removed because it would put employers off especially given that I've just started freelance work. I thought that perhaps employers would benefit from a fully rounded view of an individual. (I am of course building a proper company website that obviously will be entirely professional and will not include any wedding pics) What do you guys think? Do you keep personal and tech separate to avoid potential employers seeing, or do you just mix them all up.
Simon [Need a software dev?]
Will you be able to deduct your web site as a business expense if you have personal stuff on it? Talk to your accountant.
Best wishes, Hans
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I don't really promote it at all. It happens to have my CV on it as well as non-professional stuff, but pretty soon I'll have a separate company site anyway so the personal one will be exactly that. There will always be some overlap though. For example I've posted articles about programming microcontrollers that will have nothing to do with my company, but obviously demonstrate programming skills.
Simon [Need a software dev?]
If your current site is not a part of any kind of your professional profile, you should not worry at all. If an employer still considers it, he does not deserve to employ you. Simple. Once you have created your professional website, you can provide a link on it for this one. It should clearly state that these are the professionally valuable parts of my personal website.
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I bet after you hand them your business card they check out your website though. It might not be what draws in the leads, but I'm sure it plays a part in their impression of you. Love the new site by the way - "Results so good we don't need a flashy website." (Although did you know your navigation links don't work without javascript?)
Simon [Need a software dev?]
Yeah, I haven't really decided what to do in that case. I really hate maintaining two websites and I wanted this one to just be simple and easy to move the hosting. I still have the PHP code for mapping XML files to site requests like I used on the old site but I have been thinking about moving to ASP.NET so didn't want to. I suppose I should at least put a javascript alert to tell users without javascript that it is required :)
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. I also do Android Programming as I find it a refreshing break from the MS. "And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs" -- Robert Frost
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A friend raised a point today about my personal website. It's mainly a site of tech related stuff where I post about programming projects, or stuff I'm working on, but I also have pictures from my wedding, and some galleries from other things, like days out with the family, etc. He said that the wedding and personal pics should be removed because it would put employers off especially given that I've just started freelance work. I thought that perhaps employers would benefit from a fully rounded view of an individual. (I am of course building a proper company website that obviously will be entirely professional and will not include any wedding pics) What do you guys think? Do you keep personal and tech separate to avoid potential employers seeing, or do you just mix them all up.
Simon [Need a software dev?]
Simon P Stevens wrote:
He said that the wedding and personal pics should be removed because it would put employers off...
If those areas were password protected, potential employers would be none the wiser.
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A friend raised a point today about my personal website. It's mainly a site of tech related stuff where I post about programming projects, or stuff I'm working on, but I also have pictures from my wedding, and some galleries from other things, like days out with the family, etc. He said that the wedding and personal pics should be removed because it would put employers off especially given that I've just started freelance work. I thought that perhaps employers would benefit from a fully rounded view of an individual. (I am of course building a proper company website that obviously will be entirely professional and will not include any wedding pics) What do you guys think? Do you keep personal and tech separate to avoid potential employers seeing, or do you just mix them all up.
Simon [Need a software dev?]
Just don't link from one set of pages to the other.
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