Meryl's Notes Blog

Mark Irons explains, “There are many personal Web sites. The vast majority are mediocre. Some are bad. Fewer are good. An extremely small number are excellent.

These excellent sites — and I use excellent subjectively — fascinate me. Why is finding a new one such a delight? What distinguishes them from the rest? What unnamable yet instantly recognizable quality do they possess?”

He breaks out the patterns into five subjects in Patterns for Personal Web Sites. [Link WebWord]