Good Old Days of Simple Websites
Remember the good old days when you navigated to an important website to get information, accessed your accounts, or even checked up on the latest gossip? In my opinion, those days are long gone.
Today, when you’re surfing the web, hopping from favorite site to site, how many of us can actually say it’s a relaxing experience? When you’re bombarded with several ad videos playing at once, animated advertisements popping out at you from everywhere, and a multitude of other nuisances, the first thing on your mind might be, Get me out of here!!!
In the old days, I used to love sitting in front of my laptop with a cup of coffee on a Saturday morning. It really was relaxing, going to my favorite sites and catching up on news and gossip. It was my chance to finally use my computer for something other than work. I don’t do that anymore because I find it annoying, sometimes stressful.
Unless you have a new laptop with cutting edge software, the web has become a hostile place. Rather than sailing smooth seas, navigation from site to site is filled with gale force winds, treacherous shoals, and 30 foot waves breaking over the deck. Yes, it’s because of all that junk—most of it in the form of ads—that causes these feelings in web surfers.
It slows down your computer. When you access a website, all that cutesy garbage is loaded into your laptop. Heaven help you if your machine happens to be an older model. Even if it’s not, do you really want all that invasive stuff attacking your computer; perhaps even staying memory resident long after you’ve left the site, spying on your activity and logging your preferences? Not me, nosiree.
What I don’t understand are the organizations that advertise on these websites. Do they visit and see how annoying these sites really are, and how a visitor to the site their ad is on may associate their bad experience with their product? If there are any metrics on this, I suggest their marketing departments take a long, hard look at them.
My blog here has ads on it. However, let it be known that I did not put those ads there. I have no control over that since this is a free blog. WordPress, the site that hosts my blog put those ads there, but even so, these are simple ads like we had in the old days. When it comes down to it, WordPress is great at not putting any invasive ads onto your blog, and I highly recommend them.
If I want a completely ad-free blog, all I have to do is take the paid option. The ads WordPress puts on my blog would be completely removed for a low, yearly fee. I plan on doing that soon, but first I wanted to make sure this blog was feasible and beneficial as an author’s blog. Now that I see it is, I will be taking the paid option very soon so you won’t see any ads at all.
When it comes down to it, I just want you to enjoy coming to my blog, getting any book release news you’re looking for without any hassles, have a laugh or two at my sometimes off the wall personal observations, and have an all-around good experience.
G.C. Riley
