Your avatar is that spunky little photo of you that you use when commenting on blogs, on Twitter, on Facebook, on MySpace and on all your social news websites.
Should you stick to the one image? And what’s the best kind of image to use?
Social media is just a buzzword or umbrella term for people communicating online.
The most amazing aspect is the ease at which anyone can publish material. An individual can publish cheaply (even for free), instantly and to a wide audience– possibly a worldwide audience.
Someone just unfollowed me on Twitter!
If someone has unfollowed you, don’t sweat it! It doesn’t automatically mean you’ve done something wrong.
If a lot of people unfollow you all at once, then (and only then) is it time to look at how you’re tweeting, what you’re tweeting and even at how much you’re tweeting.
Celebrity fashion trends are a sport for fashion magazines and celebrity-watch websites.
If you like to follow the fashions of celebrities for some hip new ways of putting clothing and styles together, the following websites make it easy!
The humble little Acai berry seems to be all over the internet at the moment. It’s being packaged as a weightloss product– with women the main targets.
Going by the rash of complaints over recent months, it seems that as many wallets are being squeezed as berries?
This is a question that often comes up in internet discussion forums. People want to know if the other people they interact with online are the same ‘in real life’.
It’s likely that people will only know fragmented pieces of you.
Foodie, comedian, registered nurse, enthusiastic debater, armchair political commentator, armchair movie critic, fiercely loyal friend, book lover, amateur photographer, mother, diabetic, bargain shopper or soccer player.
All of those things could be you. But who are you online, really?
On Facebook, you might have circles of friends (old & new), family and workmates all mingling in the one space– your profile.
What if a old friend posts a photo of you from THAT party fifteen years ago– a photo that belongs to your wild, wild days? (Or even just one night of letting your hair hang down.)
That blast from the past is currently being eyeballed by everyone you know.
Social shopping is pretty much like overhearing that woman on the bus talk about her latest shopping trip– y’know, the women wearing the boots and accessories that look like they were made for YOU.
And now you can eavesdrop online to your heart’s content! And it’s evolving… some websites are taking social shopping to a whole new level.
Tracking women’s menstrual cycles used to be the domain of websites concerned with conception and fertility.
Here are two websites tracking cycles for different reasons– one to assist any women needing help to follow her cycle from month to month, and the other for… well… men.
Open Office is a free office suite that is fully-featured and has been developed over a period of twenty years. It’s pretty amazing and it’s free for you to download!
Comes with a word processor, spreadsheet, dynamic graphics, slideshow, and database access.
HER WEB LIFE covers the best of the web for Australian women. We bring you everything from web news & great website picks to guides on creating your own website!
Social networks, the best shopping, modern parenting, internet marketing and creative business models– this is the web Australian women are creating and living today.
If you want a place on the web to share wedding memories or to plan your special day, there are free wedding websites especially for you.
There are wonderful options for you to make your own free community website.
Great for nonprofit, social and sporting groups to have their own space to get together and to organise their events.
A commercial venture can also make a start here and move up to paid upgrades at a later stage.
If you want to make a family tree or keep a website where all family members can connect and post photographs, there are free website options set up specifically for you!
A family website can be a small project within your own immediate family, or it can encompass your extended family, and reach back through the ages, detailing the lives of many generations of your family.
There are people out there who want the Comic Sans font to die a quick death. Never has a mere font created such disgust or a reputation for plain ickiness.
You’ve paid for a year’s hosting with a web host – only to discover a month later that they don’t provide databases to set up the CMS or blog you want. It’s a costly mistake.
It’s not a matter of figuring out the best web host. it’s a matter of finding a web host that suits your needs, at the right price.
If you’re creating a website yourself, website builders are a quick way of getting up and running.
Don’t just pick any site builder though – there are good ones, very basic ones, and ones that will have you tearing your hair out in frustration!
Why read the life updates and views (even ravings!) of an individual when there is so much else to read on the net?
Because we’re human, and we like to know what other people think and feel. We also like to know what they know, especially if it can benefit us in some way.
Your life on the web
Posted on June 15th, 2009
