One of my passions lately is browsing the web, looking for all sort of information. It’s faster and easier than reading books, but sometimes it is a pain to get to the information you need, because the author of the website thought himself to be an unrevealed artist.
This is what I pretend from a website, in order to call it good:
Fast loading: all I want is to get to the information as fast as possible, so I don’t care about fancy graphics which take forever to get loaded. Make it ugly but fast and I’ll read it.
Easy navigation: the menu should be visible, clear, and in the upper part of the page, or in the right sidebar. This is what I’m used to, and this is the most convenient for me to browse the content of a website.
Contact info: I want to be able to ask somebody if I need clarifications on what I read online. Plus, this makes the website more credible to me, knowing who’s the author.
It is just so easy nowadays to start a website, that even children can do it. Especially if you choose to go for free hosted blogs, all you need is maybe a half of hour before you have the site up and running, with your first couple of articles already published.
Nevertheless, the next step would be to make your site more personal, to give it an unique touch, and this is not so easy anymore. You may want to make a logo for it, but if you have no talent for design nor the required technical skills, then you are in trouble.
Solution? Yes, there are many places on the internet where you can design your logo for free. Just put in Google search “make a free logo” and see what results you get. I bet that you’ll find at least one good solution on the very first page of results.
Another solution would be to get MyLogo Maker or a similar software and get your job done easily and in a professional manner, without having to learn how to use complicated tools.
Whatever you may choose, remember that a cool, distinctive logo can get your site out of the crowd and make it memorable for your readers.
Zwinky is one of the funniest free computer applications I ever found on the internet. It helps you create cool avatars in very little time, and it is free.
All you have to do is download and install a free toolbar, then you can start creating. You can create your own personalized avatar, with those characteristics that you want. You can customize pretty much everything, so at the end of your work, you’ll get a very nice and representative face, a cool avatar for you to use in your social networking activities.
Besides, if you have children, you can keep them busy for a very long time, by giving them Zwinky tasks, especially if you have girls. Boys get bored a bit faster, so you may end up by annoying them. Cool avatars are for everybody.
