The Diary
of
Anne Ku

6 March 2001 Tuesday

ANOTHER WEB FANATIC

The guy eating alone, next to us, interrupted our conversation, by asking, "Excuse me, but would you mind telling me what you're talking about?"

How rude, I thought. But how awfully bold of him. Before I knew it, he got engaged in a deep discussion with my friend.

It turned out he had a personal website too. Having had a headstart by three years, he chose a domain name that was easy to remember. Then he populated it full of pictures of himself riding horses, thousands of them. It was not a site about horses but about himself and his passion for riding.

So I finally meet another web fanatic who uses the web to expose that inner core. I surfed his site well into the night as I wanted to find out what made his site more successful than mine. The text wasn't easy to see against a patterned background. The links were too small. The guestbook was huge, organised by country, but without dates. I'm sure he gets lots of single female visitors - as girls like riding horses.

I suppose the key success factors of his site are 1- easy to remember and relevant domain name (mine isn't obvious nor easy to spell or remember); 2- a single, focussed subject (unlike mine); and most of all, 3- good quality photos of his handsome self.

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