More please…little more…that’s good…thank you

I’ve been itching to write more here, but have been stalling for long enough. Here I am on my third posting, very tempted to steer off topic, deviate from the site’s mission, but I promise I will stay the course.

A co-worker pointed out bbc.co.uk to me yesterday. In the header there is a call-out to customize your homepage. The copy is perfect; they’re calling it my home page, when it’s not (yet), and they’re giving me the opportunity to customize it.

Life’s a beach

From the start, I’ll derail real quick and let you know I don’t like a lot of travel sites. I think the Orbitz site design is wacky (I’ve also read horror stories about their customer service), Hotwire’s home page is a little too much for me and Expedia is just kind of goofy to me as well. I’m most loyal to Kayak.com. The logic behind the user experience is sound, the design is simple and it does a great job convincing me that it is doing everything it can to find me the cheapest airfare, simply by keeping the whole experience as straightforward as possible. I realize I might not be the target user for the broader travel service sites I initially disregarded, but I think my opinion will stand until I need to book a family vacation.

A co-worker pointed out bbc.co.uk to me yesterday. In the header there is a call-out to customize your homepage. The copy is perfect; they’re calling it my home page, when it’s not (yet), and they’re giving me the opportunity to customize it.

Well-calculated Blabbering

I’ll first start with a large warm and fuzzy welcome to my blog. I hope you enjoy your time here. With all the time I find myself spending on the Internet, I have decided that it would be most appropriate for me to become a more active participant to the content, experiences and advantages that the web never ceases to provide its users. My motives for this effort are, at least initially, selfish; mainly, to test my own interest in the web and to see where this takes me. This a start of something I hope will turn into a great opportunity for me to not only think more closely about the web, but challenge myself and those who might read this to think about the information and design of the websites around the world. Maybe this will turn into something big, like my own company one day. Maybe I’ll be able to rub elbows with the stars or maybe get a guest writer on here (that is, if blogs even have guest writers).