You know, leading up to giving my presentation I had assumed i’d be way more nervous than I was when I got up there. I’m definitely not the best public speaker and have a tendency to forget my main points when put on the spot, or rush through them too quickly. To my surprise, things went pretty smoothly and I was definitely not the first person to die directly from public speaking.
I’ve got to give props to Ken Landefeld. He built a great website and his presentation was very amusing. He definitely went above and beyond the call of duty when creating kenlandefeld.com, and I’m frankly amazed at how dramatically he altered his starting wordpress theme. The end result of his modifications looked nothing like the initial theme. I share in his desire to keep the website from looking too “bloggy.” Too many website have sort of a generic, almost magazine like look about them and he successfully made his design definitively his. I also got a kick out of his drawing depicting his caricature in a Target uniform. Having worked retail myself, I can identify with his pain.
Another website I particularly like is thesingleplate.com by Megan Edwards. Even though she claims to be nervous about public speaking, she came across as very confident and organized during her presentation. I worked with Megan on a group project last semester in digital imaging, but I had no idea that she used to be a professional chef until this class. I like to cook myself, and fancy myself an amateur chef, so I particularly liked her website and will probably try out some of her recipes one of these days.
The most entertaining presentation to me, by far, was Neil Garcia’s. While I have no idea how he is going to pull off the goals he is setting with exquisiteleisure.com, his charisma during his presentation almost convinces me that he will. Then again, as he pointed out during his presentation, he really only needs one or two customers a year to make a career out of Exquisite Leisure. While what he was proposing sounded a bit too good to be true, listening to him reminded me of the expression, “he’ll outlive us all.”
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