Why don you have any graphics of awards, webrings, links, etc.?
Because I want this to be a semi-private affair. I am not overly concerned about being part of a “online community” or other collective force. Not that there are not many valuable and worthy such communities, but that I have always been a loner and my webpage is no exception. Instead of people coming to my site and then bouncing right out immediately, I would urge them to take off their jacket and stay awhile; the total value of my site taken as a whole is more than that of its individual dismembered parts. I sometimes wonder if the Web does not militate against sustained concentration as people simply surf the World Wide Web and let momentum carry their thoughts and not vice versa. They say the average websurfer looks at an average seven URLs and then clicks away someplace else. This is perhaps not the best aspect of the web.