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David Did It! – Learning New Skills (One Web Page at a Time)

Last week, I swapped CVs and interviews for something completely different: building new pages on the H-FTS website.

No, I’m not rebranding as a web developer any time soon. But I did spend my evenings writing content, adding images, and even getting stuck into the HTML. And honestly? I really enjoyed it – especially knowing it will help more people find us when they search for Recruitment Support.

I wanted to create bespoke pages for Accountancy Recruitment, Legal Recruitment, Yorkshire Legal Recruitment, Yorkshire Accountancy Recruitment, Manchester Legal Jobs, Manchester Accountancy Jobs, Legal Jobs London, and Accountancy Practice Recruitment. This includes Salary guides in line with current market rates, information on our Free CV Review Service etc.

Why I Decided to Do It Myself

Like most business owners, there’s always a long list of “we’ll sort that later” jobs. For us, one of those was creating individual pages for each of our specialist markets in:

I could have outsourced it. But I also wanted to:

  • Understand our website better
  • Make sure the content sounded like us
  • Push myself to learn something new
  • Build pages that clearly explain how we support Yorkshire Legal Recruitment, Yorkshire Accountancy Recruitment, Manchester Legal Jobs, Manchester Accountancy Jobs, and Legal Jobs London

So instead of putting it off again, I opened the laptop one evening and just started.

From Overwhelmed to “Okay, I Can Do This”

When I first thought about building a whole new page from scratch, it felt overwhelming. New layouts, branding, content, images, headings, links, SEO… it was a lot.

It reminded me of how candidates often feel when they’re stepping into a new role or changing sector: “I’ve never done this before. Where do I even start?”

The turning point for me was deciding not to look at it as one big project, but as a series of small steps.

Here’s how I broke it down for each new recruitment market page:

  1. Create a blank page – Nothing fancy, just a starting point.
  2. Add the company theme and branding – Colours, fonts, layout so it felt like H-FTS.
  3. Add the title – Clear, simple, and relevant to the market, such as:
    • “Yorkshire Accountancy Recruitment”
    • “Yorkshire Legal Recruitment”
    • “Manchester Accountancy Jobs”
    • “Manchester Legal Jobs”
    • “Legal Jobs London”
  4. Write the content – Who we help, what we do, and why it matters to firms and candidates.
  5. Structure the headings (H1, H2, H3) – So it’s easy to read and makes sense.
  6. Add internal links – Connecting to other relevant pages on the site, including our Accountancy Practice Recruitment and core Accountancy Recruitment and Legal Recruitment pages.
  7. Think about SEO keywords – So people actually find the page when they search for things like Yorkshire Legal Recruitment, Yorkshire Accountancy Recruitment, Manchester Legal Jobs, Manchester Accountancy Jobs, or Legal Jobs London.

Piece by piece, it stopped feeling like a mountain and started feeling like a checklist.

What I Learned (That Applies Far Beyond Websites)

By the end of the week, I’d created individual pages for each market we cover, with more still to come. That now includes focused content for:

  • Yorkshire Accountancy Recruitment – helping accountancy practices hire audit, accounts, tax and payroll specialists
  • Yorkshire Legal Recruitment – supporting law firms with roles across private client, family, litigation, conveyancing and more
  • Manchester Accountancy Jobs – for candidates looking to build their careers in accountancy practices in and around Greater Manchester
  • Manchester Legal Jobs – for solicitors and legal professionals wanting opportunities in Manchester
  • Legal Jobs London – for those aiming to work in London law firms
  • Broader Accountancy Practice Recruitment for firms across the UK

But the real win wasn’t just the pages themselves – it was the reminder of how we learn.

A few things this taught me:

  • You don’t need to be an expert to get started. I’m not a developer, but I can still create something useful.
  • Breaking things down works. Whether it’s a web page, a new job, or a big life change – small steps make it manageable.
  • Progress feels good. Watching a blank page slowly turn into something on-brand and functional was genuinely satisfying.

The Recruitment Parallel

In recruitment, we constantly speak to people who are:

  • Moving from practice to industry
  • Stepping up into a more senior role
  • Changing firm size or specialism
  • Relocating for new opportunities – whether that’s Manchester Accountancy Jobs, Manchester Legal Jobs, Legal Jobs London, or roles via our Yorkshire Legal Recruitment and Yorkshire Accountancy Recruitment work

Almost always, there’s a moment of doubt: “I’ve never done this exact thing before.”

What last week reminded me is this: you don’t have to know everything on day one. You just have to be willing to start, learn, and build piece by piece.

Just like my web pages, careers are built in stages:

  • First role
  • First promotion
  • First time managing people
  • First move to a new firm or specialism

You don’t jump from blank page to finished product in one go. You build it.

Final Thoughts

I’ll happily leave the complex development work to the professionals, but I’m glad I spent last week’s evenings trying something new.

It gave us better, more tailored pages for each of our markets – especially in Accountancy Recruitment, Legal Recruitment, Yorkshire Legal Recruitment, Yorkshire Accountancy Recruitment, Manchester Legal Jobs, Manchester Accountancy Jobs, Legal Jobs London, and wider Accountancy Practice Recruitment – and it reminded me how important it is to keep learning, even when it feels uncomfortable at first.

If you’re thinking about a move, a promotion, or a complete change and it feels like a huge leap, try this approach:

  • Stop looking at the whole thing
  • Focus on the next small step
  • Build it one piece at a time

And if you’re in the legal or accountancy world – whether you’re exploring Legal Jobs London, roles in Yorkshire or Manchester, or a fresh opportunity within an accountancy practice – that’s exactly what we’re here for at H-FTS.