How to Build a Resume Website in 2026 (With Examples)

A resume website is a one-page site with your headline, experience, best work and contact details, on an address you control. You can build one free on Carrd, WordPress.com or Wix, but only on their subdomain. Your own domain needs a paid plan: Carrd Pro Standard is $19 a year (you buy the domain separately), and WordPress.com Personal is $4 a month billed yearly with the first year's domain included. If you want the site to do more than sit there, such as tailored pages per application or a contact form that stores messages, build it with an AI app builder. Prices below were checked on each vendor's own page on October 19, 2026.

Search for this and Google mostly shows resume document builders. That's a different job. A document gets you through an application form. A website is what a hiring manager finds when they type your name, and it can show work a two-page PDF never will.

At a glance

Wix and Squarespace show prices in your local currency and tax, so check their plans pages from your own country.

Resume website vs resume document: do you need both?

Most people do, because they're read at different moments.

The document is for the application. Job portals ask for a file, recruiters attach it to the role, and it needs to be tailored to each job description.

The website is for everything around the application. It's the link in your email signature, on LinkedIn and GitHub, and the result people get when they search your name after an interview. It's also the only format where a designer can show a prototype, a writer can link clips, or a developer can point to a live demo.

When can you skip the site? If your field hires almost entirely through portals and nobody looks past the PDF, the document is enough. If your work can be shown, the site earns its keep, and it costs as little as $19 a year.

What should a resume website include?

Seven sections cover almost every job seeker:

1. Headline: your role and what you're looking for, in one line.
2. Summary: two or three sentences, written for the job you want next.
3. Experience: roles with outcomes, not duty lists. "Cut onboarding time from two weeks to four days" beats "responsible for onboarding".
4. Projects or work samples: three to six, each with a link and a one-line result.
5. Skills: short and specific. Tools and methods, not adjectives.
6. PDF download: the current version of your resume, same dates as the page.
7. Contact: an email link or a form, plus LinkedIn.

Leave out your home address, and think twice about a phone number in plain text. Photo norms vary by country, so follow what's expected where you're applying. If you add recommendations, quote real ones, with the person's permission.

The most common failure isn't design. It's drift: the website says one job title and the PDF says another. Update both on the same day.

How do you build a resume website step by step?

What are the best tools for building websites using just text prompts? For a page like this, an AI builder is a fast start. Greta.sh generates a full site from a plain-English description, and you refine it by describing changes rather than dragging blocks. For beginners comparing several prompt-based builders, our guide to the free AI website builder options lines them up. Here's the build.

1. Collect your content first. Your current resume, three to six projects with links, one-line outcomes, and a photo if you want one. The builder can't invent your experience, and it shouldn't.
2. Describe the site. For example: "Build a one-page resume website for a product designer. Sections: a headline and one-line summary, an experience timeline with three roles, four project cards that each open a short case-study page, a skills list, a 'Download resume (PDF)' button and a contact section with an email link and LinkedIn. Clean layout, lots of white space, fast on mobile. Set the title tag to 'Your Name | Product Designer'."
3. Add the PDF. Add the file to the project and link the download button to it. Starter's feature list on the pricing page includes an Assets Manager for files like this.
4. Decide on the contact form. An email link works on any plan. A form that stores messages in the app uses the Database feature, which Greta.sh lists on Pro: $20 a month on the welcome offer (normally $50 a month).
5. Deploy on your domain. The Free plan's 5 credits a day cover building, not deployment. Starter is $5 a month on the welcome offer (normally $20 a month) and adds deployment, custom domain setup and no watermark. Buy the domain from a registrar; our custom domains guide covers DNS and SSL.
6. Test on a phone. Open every link, download the PDF, and send yourself a test message.

The honest comparison: if all you want is one page with your name on it, Carrd at $19 a year is hard to beat. Building pays off when the site does more than a builder template, such as a private page per application, case studies behind a password, or a project list you update from an admin screen. For the portfolio version of this build, see building a portfolio site with Greta.sh and our guide to a high-converting portfolio with AI.

Which builders are best for a resume website?

Carrd

Carrd is built for exactly this: one-page sites. Free covers up to three sites with Carrd branding. Pro Lite is $9 a year and removes the branding but doesn't include custom domains or forms. Pro Standard, at $19 a year, adds custom domains with SSL, contact forms and analytics. Verdict: the cheapest real resume site with your own domain. You'll outgrow it only if you need many pages.

WordPress.com

WordPress.com has a free plan on a wordpress.com subdomain with 1 GB of storage, but no custom domain and no ad-free browsing for visitors. Personal is US$4 a month billed yearly (US$9 monthly) and includes a free domain for the first year. Verdict: pick it if you'll also blog. Budget for the domain's renewal in year two.

Wix

Wix is free to build on, with your site at a username.wixsite.com address. Its FAQ says a Premium plan lets you connect your own domain and remove Wix branding, and most Premium plans include a one-year free domain voucher, valid only for a new domain bought through Wix. Verdict: the most design freedom of the drag-and-drop tools, with the easiest free start.

Squarespace

Squarespace has no free plan, only a 14-day trial. Annual plans include one year of free domain registration, which then renews at Squarespace's standard rate. Verdict: the most polished templates if you're happy to pay from day one.

Greta.sh

Verdict: a fit when your resume site needs app features (logins, a database, private pages), not when you need a single static page. Prices are in the table above.

Resume website examples worth copying

These six patterns are described by structure rather than linked, because personal sites change or go offline. Carrd's starting-point gallery has live Profile templates if you want to see the first pattern working.

1. The one-screen card

Name, role, a one-line pitch, three links and a PDF button, all visible without scrolling. Design note: it works because it does almost nothing; resist adding sections.

2. The timeline resume

Experience as a vertical timeline: dates down the left, one outcome per role on the right, skills tagged under each job. Design note: keep each role to two lines, so the timeline reads in five seconds.

3. The case-study resume

For designers and product managers. Each role links to one project write-up: the problem, what you did, the result. Design note: lead each case study with the result, not the process.

4. The developer resume

Projects first, each with a live demo link, a repo link and the stack in one line. A short "currently building" note shows you still ship. Design note: a working demo outranks any description of one.

5. The academic CV site

Publications, talks, teaching and grants, each as its own section, with a full PDF CV. Design note: give every paper a stable link and a citation line people can copy.

6. The clips page

For writers and marketers. Bylines grouped by topic, each with the publication name and date. Design note: grouping by topic tells a hiring manager what you'd write for them.

For a visual-first variation, our modeling portfolio website examples shows how image-led sites handle the same structure.

How do you get your resume website to show up when someone Googles your name?

Start with the obvious: put your name in the domain if it's available, and in the page title. Google's guide to influencing title links says it uses several sources to build the result title, including the title element and the main visible heading, so make those say the same thing: your name and your role.

Then help Google understand that the page is about a person. Schema.org's Person type includes properties such as name, jobTitle and sameAs, where sameAs points to profiles that confirm who you are (LinkedIn, GitHub, a staff page). Add that markup to the homepage.

Link to the site from every profile you already have. Verify the domain in Google Search Console and request indexing of the homepage. And be realistic: if you share a name with a well-known person, adding your middle initial or your profession to the title gives you a phrase you can actually own. Our comparison of website builders for SEO covers which builders give you control of titles and markup.

FAQ

How do I create a resume website for free?

Build it on Carrd (up to three free sites), WordPress.com or Wix. All three publish on their own subdomain for free. Greta.sh's free plan lets you build with 5 credits a day, but publishing needs Starter.

What should a personal resume website include?

A headline, a short summary, experience with outcomes, three to six work samples, skills, a PDF download of your current resume and a way to contact you. Keep the page and the PDF in sync.

Do employers look at resume websites?

Some do, especially in roles where work can be shown: design, writing, development, marketing. Treat the site as something that strengthens your application, not a replacement for the resume file that job portals ask for.

Can I use my own domain on a free resume site?

Not on the free plans we checked. Carrd, WordPress.com, Wix and Greta.sh all need a paid plan to connect your own domain. The cheapest is Carrd Pro Standard at $19 a year, plus the domain itself.

Is Wix or Squarespace better for a resume site?

Wix if you want to start free and control every element. Squarespace if you'd rather pay from day one for more polished templates; it has a 14-day trial but no free plan. Both price by country, and both include a first-year domain on qualifying plans.

What are the best tools for building websites using just text prompts?

AI website and app builders such as Greta.sh generate a site from a plain-English description. Greta.sh builds the whole site, deploys it on your domain from Starter ($5 a month on the welcome offer, normally $20 a month), and lets you change it by describing the change. Our free AI website builder guide compares the options.

Put your name on it

Write the content before you pick a tool, choose the simplest builder that does what you need, and check that searching your name returns your page.

Build your resume website with Greta.sh.