About Us
Conception:
MyiPage was created when we opened an Internet Café and noticed
there was nothing online that provided an entry page to all the
general email, favourites or travel Web sites. Companies wanted
you to stay on their home page. Yahoo.com was great, MSN.com was
great and so on, but they only included links to their
information or sponsors, not to any other Web sites.
Our customers were from all over the world
and had e-mail accounts or homepages from a variety of different
web companies. We needed a specific page entry with all the best
links that made it easy for anyone from any country to use.
Design:
MyiPage was created to be very visual in design, eliminating
boring text links and instead using picture logos from each
company.
Example Here!
Once we had the desired
layout and right amount of content, we wanted the entry page to
match the style of the internet café, so we designed it with a
green theme. Also, the most important part of the design was
KIS: Keep It Simple! We wanted to make sure it would be easy to
understand and use.
However, one
of the downsides to using images rather than text links was the
slow loading time, so balance of the size of the image and
quality was crucial.
Implement: Once our design was
finished, we needed an easy way to apply the homepage across
many computers. The simple, "Make Homepage Link" was all we
needed.
Feedback was very
positive, our customers loved it, and to our surprise, people
began using the homepage outside of the internet cafe and on
their home computers!
MyiPage
(name chosen after launch) was a success!
Forward Thinking: We
soon began to see there was demand for other uses of MyiPage, so
we set out to offer a localised content as well as a general
content for each specific town or city. We also wanted to be
more personalised by adding several colour choices of the pages
layout.
MyiPage was now being used by other internet
cafes, business, and the general public and soon had several
requests for personal homepages.
Dreams:
With the steady growth of MyiPage, it has primarily
been created by a one-man operation, but with so much to do and
so little time, we dream of making MyiPage a viable company with
an office and staff, but also to keep its services free!
Although the owner, PocketPcMan, has spent many
years in the United States, he is originally from the United Kingdom and now currently calls Australia home.
Because of this unique living situation, MyiPage accidentally
became worldwide!
Update: MyiPage has redesigned its concept and has now adopted
the Google Gadgets on the iGoogle page. By
designing our links as Google Gadgets, we are making our
services more widely available to a bigger audience. This also
enables us to continue the city pages with more professional and
up-to-date information. We are also able to update links across
the site without having to change thousands of static pages.
News:
We welcome any suggestions for links and ideas to grow
MyiPage bigger and better!
If you like our page
and would like to make a donation for the continued free use of
MyiPage, we are very grateful and appreciative.
Thanks
PocketPcMan
MyiPage is brought you by
PocketPcMan.com
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