Krisdayanti joins famous people by building her personal website<\/p>\n
By Mila Day<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): She sings well, dresses elegantly and also knows
\nhow to act. Krisdayanti is probably an Indonesian 21st century
\nicon. And yes, she is on the Net, too, with her \"still-under-
\nconstruction\" personal website. Check out www.krisdayanti.com if
\nyou are curious.<\/p>\n
Often, a site with a domain name that uses one's own name,
\npersonal site for short, is sometimes not established by the
\nowner of the name. It could be established by a fan or a group of
\nfans. The beautiful Malaysian singer Siti Nurhaliza, for example,
\nhas a site (www.sitinurhaliza.net) established by a geek fan.<\/p>\n
The site www.leary.com was constructed by young people who had
\nmet or adored the deceased Timothy Leary. He was the fascinating
\nex-Harvard lecturer who wrote Chaos and Cyberculture and whose
\nashes were scattered in outer space.<\/p>\n
The site www.leary.com was picked as the Net's Best Site in
\n1996. By that time, there were not so many marvelous web designs:
\nno sound, no video and no Flash technology. Flash, by Macromedia
\n(www.macromedia.com for a free software download), creates
\nanimated vector-based websites.<\/p>\n
Speaking of Flash technology, there is one local personal site
\nsupported by Flash: a site set up by techno-fiend media mogul
\nPeter F. Gontha (www.gontha.com).<\/p>\n
Okay, Krisdayanti and Siti Nurhaliza are pretty. Leary was a
\nguru who envisioned cyberspace far before the Internet hype took
\nroot in the 1990s. If a businessman as great as Peter Fritz
\nGontha establishes his personal site with amazing vision, does
\nthis mean that he really keeps track of new technology in all
\nmedia?<\/p>\n
To find the answer, I logged onto www.gontha.com. With the so-
\ncalled sophisticated Flash technology, I had to stare at a very
\nlong and boring \"loading\" tag. After that, I registered in out of
\ncuriosity. Unfortunately, nothing happened when I logged in again
\nafter registration. Ah, this is either a ghost site, a website
\nthat is no longer maintained but that remains available for
\nviewing, or the owner just wants to keep the domain name. No
\nvision yet.<\/p>\n
Get a domain name<\/p>\n
There are two ways to get a personal site. You can purchase a
\ndomain name (see www.netsol.com), or you can join a provider of
\nfree space, (e.g. www.geocities.com). Gontha's site takes the
\nfirst route. Many recreational users take the second.<\/p>\n
Joining the second group, I used to have one at www.xoom.com
\nbefore www.NBCi.com bought xoom.com. Soon afterward, there were
\nnone. By the way, it was really fun designing, typing and posting
\nit. For someone like me -- who cannot sing beautifully or
\nenvision the Net radically -- I needed to give an intro of who I
\nwas. I pasted up a picture of myself. I also mentioned what I
\nliked and did not like.<\/p>\n
I really felt great about it until one day a friend of mine
\nstopped by my site. He was a computer nerd who lived in San
\nFrancisco, USA. He said, \"It's too naive\". I didn't understand at
\nthe time. As I found out more about Internet security and
\nprivacy, I began to understand. I was just too naive to type my
\nreal name, age and address. This could be critical.<\/p>\n
Back when there was only a small number of people logging onto
\nthe Net, online crime and information abuse was zilch. Today,
\neven a college student like Steven Haryanto can say \"nothing
\npersonal\" explaining his dubious sites (e.g. www.kilkbca.com,
\nwww.klikbac.com, and so forth) that snared customers who mistyped
\nBank Central Asia (BCA)'s web address www.klikbca.com. The crime
\nstops there though: he did not take advantage of people who
\nmistakenly typed in their passwords. BCA accepted an apology
\nbefore the matter was sent to court.<\/p>\n
Madonna has fought for her domain name in court. The last time
\nI logged in, her site www.madonna.com was a retired or invisible
\nsite (one which doesn't exist anymore and results in a \"not
\nfound\" message when you type the address). Her domain name is her
\ntrademark. She has, of course, many bodyguards to protect her
\nprivacy.<\/p>\n
Personal sites<\/p>\n
You may want to look around for personal sites in your leisure
\ntime. There are millions of other personal sites you can look at
\nbesides the ones I mentioned above. Log in to www.yahoo.com and
\nclick \"members\" to view some. Or click geocities, which is owned
\nby yahoo, for a browse. You may want to check out some other
\nsearch engines, too.<\/p>\n
Alternatively, you can randomly type in anyone's name
\nwith .com or .net, for example www.miladay.com, which is not
\nmine. Sometimes, typing a name may lead to a different site than
\nthe one I expected to find. I typed www.clinton.com to find out
\nmore about Bill Clinton, yet I found a registered investment
\nadvisor firm.<\/p>\n
If you are interested in having your own personal site, please
\nconsider some rules. Rule No. 1: know how to design well and
\nefficiently. Let the visitors enjoy it page by page. A bit of
\nknowledge about web technology is Rule No. 2. Actually you can
\nupload anything with a simple program like Microsoft Word. Last
\nof all, Rule No. 3: beware of what and how to reveal information
\nabout yourself on the web. See but not touch. Touch but ... keep
\nit for yourself. It can be a cruel cyberworld out there.<\/p>\n
Famous sites<\/p>\n
Local:
\nwww.gontha.com (Peter F. Gontha),
\ntya.iscool.net (Tya Subiakto),
\nwww.krisdayanti.com,
\nwww.anggun.com (Anggun C. Sasmi),
\nwww.peggymelatisukma.com,<\/p>\n
Overseas:
\nwww.rupertmurdoch.com,
\nwww.leary.com (Timothy Leary),
\nwww.tlc.com,
\nwww.sitinurhaliza.net,<\/p>",
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