What's Your Backstory?

[Dcrux]

Check out the backstory development for the rock band Alida (http://www.runrev.com/spotlight_on/alida2.php). Although the article is about game design, the backstory idea applies to any business or web site.

In contrast, many sites are contextless bits. Web site elements often make no reference to any other piece. The logo, stock photography, copywriting and layout all look good - they may look good together - they just don't connect to each other. A color theme is not a web site purpose or strategy.

The result is like an episode of TV's lost: lots of content, interesting characters, but no plot.

A vacuum cleaner can have a backstory (http://www.dyson.com/story/default.asp?sinavtype=pagelink) a flash drive can have a backstory (http://news.com.com/A+flash+drive+with+a+backstory/2100-1041_3-5945095.html).

What's your example of a backstory?

[chaiyah]

... in the shuffle.
... We who are old codgers notice, the current generation is only concerned with process and leave the outcome, the result, the effect to chance.
... That's stupid.
... Fifteen years I developed a prime-number key for coding language recognition at a time when syntax processors were Krays.
... Well, guess what! They still are!
... Botted speech is stil stupid! And nobody wants to fix that because everybody's USED TO the syntax processor for language recognition.
... So, go ahead. Use giga bytes where you only need mega-bytes. Be stupid.
... Obsess over your processes and never mind the outcomes you create with them.
... Piffle.
... To apply that concept to this issue, the way the bill is worded makes it impossible to know the outcome. Bully bully bully for them.
... So legislatures are voting on an unknown and unknowable outcome, only articulated as "process."
... Stupid stupid stupid.

Emily Cragg.

[incrediblehelp]

IncredibleHelp's backstory...

Going to college...
Hired by a friend ot build some websites with him...
Business grew from design to something called SEO...
Business grew from 1 client to 400
Quit college...
400 clients turned into 100 clients when the bubble burst...
Quit business...
Started marketing my own websites...
Started to sign my own clients...
Started posting on WPW...
Now wondering why I am posting at 9:13pm on a friday night at WPW....