I tried Live.com

I tried Live.com...and I like it!

I had been using a personalized homepage on my.yahoo.com but I wasn't thrilled with it -- took a long time to load, and was constantly stealing my cursor (because I start typing in the search toolbar before the page fully loads...I'm impatient). (I think cursor-stealing is one of the most annoying webpage behaviors, btw.)

I'd moved to my.yahoo.com from just using a search page as my homepage, and though my Yahoo page wasn't great, I had come to enjoy the convenience of having personalized information served up on my home page. So I was open to giving Live.com a chance.

The opening screen was so clean...I really like that. Plus, it didn't make me sign in (I admit that I don't think it's necessary for people to sign in to things as often we -- Microsoft -- seem to require). Two points! So hoping that it wouldn't disappoint me, I clicked Personalize your homepage.

I wasn't disappointed. It took almost no time at all to figure out how to set it up the way I liked it, and so far it's let me do everything that I want (except add links, but I haven't had time to really search for a solution for that yet so it could just be that I haven't figured it out but it's possible).

With the tabbed pages, I can add whatever I want and still keep it clean. I can add and get rid of modules without going into "design" mode. Even drag-and-drop the modules to new locations while viewing. New homepage, I like it.

Comments

• Anonymous
  July 18, 2006
  Cursor stealing is the an absolute no-no for user experience ;)... at least for me anyway =).