As of today, I don’t have a single project saved from my school years. No doodles, collages, assignments, drawings, photographs, writing projects or attempts at any other craft type of projects. While my folks probably hung on to my school projects for a few years, I think they got over my brilliance quickly enough and disposed of my so called portfolio over one random spring cleaning session of the house.

While there was nothing incredible about the work that I had created as a student, it may have been nice to today browse thro...

Resumes have, with time, become passé and are no longer the best networking tool in a student’s arsenal. From the moment you hand over your resume to someone it becomes outdated with not much scope for updating, unless you make a new one. A student personal website or a student career portfolio is just the opposite. Every negative of a traditional resume can be fixed at the click of a button. In my opinion not having a personal student website is the equivalent of being unprepared for opportunity in the digital world.

Social media presence is a high priority among students and most of them don’t realize that their social media activity may be detrimental to their digital foot print. The “Internet is Forever” and each of us is leaving a permanent trail of activity; good or bad. Building a positive digital image via a personal website is the need of the hour.

Here are 10 reasons for students to build a personal website that can work effectively towards building them a positive digital footprint.

When we got into the website builder game, we started small. As time went by, we started to understand that people need websites for all kinds of purposes – the list grew quickly. OnPowerWeb is a Web Application developed especially for students and professionals to create a website that helps them get discovered on web. And because there are so many amazing concepts for website builders, building a personal website with OnPowerWeb is as easy as making a social media profile! OnPowerWeb provides its users with a variety of templates an...