Working on a personal site, could use some stylistic advice

[West]

I've been working on a personal site for some months now, basically a website for sharing my music and promoting myself as a composer. And I find it hard striking a good balance between "pro-looking" and "honest" if you know what I mean. If you look at the sites of any big-name composer or other professional musician, you'll notice that all info is written in the third-person ("Joe started learning the piano at the tender age of six etc ... he has scored this and that"). That's all fine and dandy if you have agents and professional web bureaus making the site for you, but when you're doing it all yourself... what to do?

I feel like a pretentious fricking idiot writing boastful third-person accounts of my past and the work I've done. OTOH, writing it from a first-person perspective sounds a bit "dear diary"-like and generally feels a little... I dunno, pathetic. "Look ma, I made a website!" Writing from a me-perspective feels more honest, but writing from a he-perspective might potentially look better in the eyes of a complete stranger. Or not. I just don't know.

Any opinions or advice on this matter?

[boru]

Just a personal opinion, but I like "I" websites more than "he" websites any day, just seems more personal and extemporaneous. Like you say, the site's not being written by a press agent or fanclub, it's by you. I'd say go with that. The site wouldn't be "dear diary" in the slightest, because you're putting your music at the center of it.

[Iris]

I feel like a pretentious fricking idiot writing boastful third-person accounts of my past and the work I've done.

Yeah. Well, I tried using the third person long ago — it didn't turn out to be good so I switched to the first person. “Pro-looking” doesn't magically equal good.

I'd personally use whatever feels more comfortable and natural to me, so I could focus on the content rather than the format.

[West]

Thanks for your input guys. I think I'll go with the first-person text then, it sure feels a lot more honest.