I am building my portfolio website and I need to start working on my written content. The thing is, I'm rubbish at it. I have looked at other web design portfolios around the web but can't put something together myself.

 

Has anyone got any tips that might help me?

 

I am just trying to get content written for the home page at the moment.

 

Cheers

Do you know anyone who's good at that sort of thing? If you're going to be doing design work then having a relationship with a good copywriter is a must so might be a good time to start making enquiries?

Do you know anyone who's good at that sort of thing? If you're going to be doing design work then having a relationship with a good copywriter is a must so might be a good time to start making enquiries?

Didn't even think about that to be honest. Where would I start looking?

There may well be some people about on the forums interested in helping out. Otherwise think through people you know who might be good at it, my go to guy is someone I went to university with who studied journalism. Either I ask him to write things for me or I send my "amateur" attempts through to him along with the keywords I'm targeting and he rewrites it for me. Obviously not for free but a lot of people are happy to do it as some extra income on the side.

It is best to get a professional in..... I would recommend WDF member Wizely He did the copy for my site

 

If only WDF had a copywriting section!

 

If only WDF had a copywriting section!

 

Id happily contribute. Been doing a lot of content work recently and I realise more and more its pretty much as important (in some areas more) as the actual design itself.

 

 

Anywho, back to the question in hand.

If the problem is creating the content rather than the grammer etc then have a bash at this >

 

Think of your top ten important points, and list them in order of importance.

 

Then start with your most important point and write a few sentances describing it. Then do your second most important point. (Its a bit easier to write short snippets like this than a full on long piece of content)

 

When you have done all ten (or however many you want) points you will have a fair bit of content that should naturally be search engine friendly without you having to concentrate too much.

 

Then write a generic overview and use this as your intro.

 

So your cotent structure would look like this.

 

Generic Overview.

Most important point.

Second most important point.

Third most important point.

and so on and so on.

 

If you give your generic overview a title with a H1 tag and your important points titles with H2 tags you should be left with good search engine friendly content.

You can go a lot further into the seo of course but this is a good way to start.

 

When you have finished go over it all to see how it reads and make natural wherever needed.

I'd definitely second a copy writing section, so many websites have amazing designs but fall down on copy. Mr Rockman great advice, if you don't have a blog yourself and would be interested in writing a "Basic SEF copywriting" guest post along those lines for mine then PM me.

Cheers

copywriting section

Oooh look at that - we had one all along! I did't see it tucked away there!

Reasonably embarrassed that I missed that!

lol - Im only on my third post so hopefully Im excused.

 

@Dynx.

I do have my own blog but its new and I'm tweaking the shop side of things before I start blogging.

Will be happy to do a guest post for you on your blog. Just having a coffee before work at the moment but Ill PM you when I get back this evening.

I suggest hire a copywriter..

You say that you are no good at producing copy but what I find is if you just write down what you are thinking then read it through and change it a little you will get better as you go along. It is however a must for you to find a good copywriter but the good ones are also expensive so unless you have some capital to invest then try and write your own copy, you will get better and have more confidence in yourself as you go along.

 

One piece of advice I can give and that is if a potential customer is looking at your website wanting web design services the whole purpose of their website is to make more money for their business and if you can convey that across in your website content then you have hit the nail on the head.