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Why do you need a personal web page?
MySpace. You can not just say the word, which is intended to be accepted in Webster's dictionary, in the next decade (n.) an online place for teens to make a mistake of his many complaints about Stacy and her new boyfriend. I'm so old.
But in my dictionary Excellence is defined by Web 2.0 sites such as MySpace or in other words, what the Web has become and is becoming still. Web 2.0 's MySpace, Facebook, Flckr, Wikipedia, all this to me one thing: the community. It seems that the addition of a central originating web site such as MySpace, is becoming more popular to go through the "intense" working to create a Web page itself. So even when the price for its own Web site quickly falls, free services like MySpace, where control over their own "space" is limited, even razing of popularity.
Personally, I hate the term "Web 2.0". The story behind it quite simple: it was a rain of ideas by a group of nerds sitting in a stuffy conference room to give a name to the web after the collapse of the dot-com. Although they try to deny the existence of this second wave of the Internet, I can not deny that the trend is moving away from personal web sites. So I'm here to bring back "in"
If MySpace and Facebook are athletic, outgoing older siblings, the personal website today seems to be the brother shy, pale-faced younger who likes to draw, only far more, but not as popular as his brothers. But when it comes to their cousins, the dusty scrapbooks and photo albums, personal web site is fine. What scrapbook can interactively zoom, transition, improve, label, and beautify your images as a presentation Flash on a website can? What book of memories can be accessed by anyone you want to show it anywhere in the world. I do not know how many pictures of her MySpace will have, but you can put a million on its own website (and now the younger generation these days, "millions" more likely a low estimate.)
Another argument for personal websites I've heard recently is that surrounding the future of individuality, personality and distinction himself from the crowd. Like you, the domain name you choose for a web site is completely unique. With MySpace, you have a page, a "space" for you and your "friends" to get to know who you are through the shared domain "www.myspace.com / stacy. Perhaps a website is unlimited potential of the pages on any aspect of your life is more a reflection of reality. However, approximately 66% percent of Internet users in a recent study really do not have a domain name. Interestingly, people who have a MySpace or Facebook a try to have a personal website. No, you have a personal page.
But I recognize that there are a number of issues related to owning a personal website, questions such as "Who has the time?", Or "What if I can not make a good looking one ", or" What about my privacy? "I know that some issues raised are very valid. However, most of the objections to a personal web site are outrageous, simply because "Web 2.0" has created a world of MySpace junkies, pleased to be members of a community overcrowding and blissfully unaware of how beneficial a personal website can be even to those who "never" have time to update it. The generation MySpace likes to write what they mean in a form and send it to him when the page reloads.
In this situation gets better, will definitely worse. The biggest problem with a personal website at the moment, even with our younger generation with experience, is that the web page creation seems too difficult or too long. It is believed that a good-looking web site can not be done without expensive software, going back to basics for drilling in basic HTML code is something already well in the past and design firms are too too expensive.
So why do people use personal websites? (Well, you can choose one of these):
-Conduct personal matter
-Communicate directly with family and friends
It shows achievements of children
"I'm looking relations
"The exchange of ideas and beliefs
"To be hip
To be brief in my summary, I know this article has not been more coherent article I have written personal websites appear in its output (hmm, perhaps the Web 2.0 people had something there.) However, it makes the perfect time to break away from the crowd. If you like me and have not already committed to my first son of Tom and anger MySpace unimaginable, start your own website, put some news feeds on it, dress up, pull some funny pictures of life, put your favorite quote on the top, buying the domain name more random imaginable. So when someone asked what his name is MySpace, proudly say "I have no one but me can be found in burntpopsicles.com!"
About the Author
Robert Burke is a designer and developer who worked formerly as a design associate and consultant for Kaufman Web Studios, but now does freelance work in design along with his job as an I.T. professional based in Seattle, Washington.
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