It's safe to say that many of today's widely used websites are still mainly from the 'giants' of the web. Yahoo!, AOL and MSN carry quite a bit of content and rule the masses in internet consumption. With the exception of Google which carries its simple design (which also has its place), one of the main reasons we keep going back to the juggernauts, is because we know not only will they have all the content we need, but it will be pretty. I am guilty of this myself, but the appearance of a site is a huge reason why I ...
I have spent about 10 years of my life living in upstate New York during my undergraduate studies and in NYC post graduation working in the media and music industry. The rest of my life was spent in a small town in Connecticut. When I made my decision to move back to the area I grew up in, in fact the same town, many people from the New York and Connecticut area questioned why I would leave such a fun place for somewhere that would be "so boring." I felt different. I had a large group of close friends in Connecticut. ...
I am a person who likes to change my house feel all the time. Recently I updated my living room with all new furniture which meant with that change, everything on the walls had to follow suit. I spent quite a bit of time online searching for the perfect wall art. One thing I learned is that if you want to frame a 6 dollar poster, you are going to dish out over 100 bucks. WHAT...a rip off. During my search I came upon the "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster. I am not someone who lets stress slide off whether ...
I wore a lot of hats in my job at AOL Music. One of the most fun was being the music director for all of the pop music genre stations on AOL Radio. Basically this meant that I picked every song on every station (a little over 20), how many times they played and I was able to create new stations. This was right up my alley. Since I was in 2nd grade, I used to make mixed tapes for all of my friends. To progress in my professional career to do a similar type of thing but on a ...
This is probably the hardest thing I have ever had to write. I am quite the outgoing person, but when it came to write something about myself, I sat in front of my computer with no clue what to say. After literally three days, I just figured, time to just create an overview of the last 27 years and see how it goes!
by 