With the introduction of the iGoogle themes (skins) earlier this year, iGoogle’s customisable homepage has become one of my favourite places to visit on a daily basis. The “Bus Stop” theme that I currently display focuses on my local weather conditions here in Sydney.

Everyday I am greeted by my friends at the bus stop, whom I have personally named – (left to right) Buster, Tim, George, Granny, Herb, Boxer and Ginny.

When it’s raining here in Sydney and is a cool 18 degrees Celsius, it’s raining at the bus stop too and everyone has to dress in their wet weather gear. The same occurs on warm and sunny 26 degree days. My bus stop friends experience the same weather conditions and once again are dressed appropriately.

Visually appealing this is a great example of clever and engaging web site design on the Internet. Not only do I have the opportunity to change my themes, I can also choose gadgets such as the weather, dictionaries, Garfield, quotes of the day, news and more, and arrange them in whatever order I want to on my iGoogle homepage. So many choices, with the freedom to turn things off and on, helps to make the whole iGoogle experience, simple, fun and compelling.

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