<exemplary personal web pages>

I have visited some of my friends' homepages.

Most of them are made at a beginner's level, not at a professional's.

Though they may not be very 'exemplary', they have some points to consider

when we begin to build our own homepage.

<1> http://www.mit.edu/people/won/home.html

This web page is very simple, to be more straightforward, too simple.

There are no graphics and no background images, even no frames and tables.

Simplicity has benefits, it makes us wait less until we can see the web page.

One of the biggest problem of this page is that it is full of links, which

were not well-organized. Using links is a good strategy of homepage design,

but to fulfill its purpose of use, the arrangement of links have to be more

structured to give the visitors more information.

<2> http://www.gsia.cmu.edu/andrew/sk76/

This page is simple, too, but more organized than the first one.

The graphics the web page the builder used are also simple, which don't flash other

people's eyes too much.

It provides the basic information about the owner, like how he looks, what he is

studying, how's his classmates and advisor, and how's Pittsburg where he lives.

But the purpose of making this web page is vague. To give the visitors useful

resources, to give information about him to job markets, or what?

<3> http://www.mit.edu/people/sychung/home.html

Nice graphical images which are related with his major give good impression

as well as let us know what his study area is like.