I have a theory about websites - the theory is that websites have personalities and that the one's with 'livelier', friendlier, and more entertaining personalities are more successful. The more personality you interject into a site the more people respond to it consciously and subconciously.

I don't believe you can create, whether graphically or transcriptively, without incorporating your personlity into your creation. Webdesigners constantly create new websites for clients, but....not all clients like what the designer does - why? Because, I think, there is a personality conflict. Not between the designer and the client but between the site's 'personality' and the client.

Certain colors have certain personality attributes, IF a webdesigners favorite color is yellow and the clients favorite color is purple - and the designer continually designs graphics with a yellowish theme then it could be a personality conflict - but that's another subject and not where I wanted to go! :)

One of my myriad of peeves is 'boring' sites. They are sites that navigate nicely, look good, have all the right qualities one would want in a site, but they're just............boring! You can't put your finger on it, but you know they lack something! I find myself saying a lot of times that the site just doesn't have a personality, it simply exists.

So now, let me ask a couple of questions:

1. If a site is created by an individual and that individual has a personality, doesn't that personality reflect in the site that is created?

2. What factors attribute to a sites personality? Is it the color? The graphics? The content? The product? Or is a sites personality nothing more than a perceived notion?

3. If sites don't have personality then why are some more "emotionally" interesting than others? Why do visitors get 'bored' with some sites while frequenting others daily?

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