Hi there, Gideon Shalwick here and welcome to my forest.

I live next to this little forest… birds in the background, you can’t see this little guy, but there’s a little dragon behind me. Maybe he’ll walk into the shot.

Anyway, I want to share something with you that I think will help you with your online business. Recently I had an interview with Ed Dale one of the worlds top internet marketers and also a very experienced social media user and technology expert. He flew over to the United States, was there for one day, got the Ipad and then flew back to Australia. That’s how crazy he is about it.

I had an interview with him and I asked him, “What are the next opportunities for us as internet marketers and bloggers for the Ipad?” He gave me some really good ideas and I’ve published the interview on my blog at www.GideonShalwick.com if you want to visit it.

During the interview he mentioned something that I thought was really interesting, especially for web design. He talked about one of the key things about the Ipad is that, “It gets out of the way of the user.”  When you are using the Ipad you don’t actually notice it. You just notice the application that you are using. For example, if you are using the word application, or pages, or keynotes, or itunes, you only see that. You only experience that and you don’t actually realize that the Ipad is there.

I thought, these guys know a thing or two about design, how can we use that for website design? It got me thinking about my own website, my own blog, and websites, and web interfaces in general. What is it that we can do to make these websites get out of the way of the user? I think that is what it’s really about. A website is about providing content and providing a user experience. Your job as the blogger or the website owner is to make sure that you get out of the way and that everything else gets out of the way so that the user can just experience what you have on your site.

I think that is really critical. I often see so many people spending so much time and money on the development and design of their graphics for their sites and when you get to their site that’s all you see. You see the graphics, you just see the logo, you just see the branding. Look at Google, look at the biggest search engines, look at YouTube, look at their design, it’s extremely simple. They get out of the way. You see their brand but it’s really small.

I think it’s a really good design principal that I’ll be applying in my future websites from now on as well and I’ll be applying it on this very blog, www.GideonShalwick.com because I think it works. The big guys are doing it and they must know something that no one else does. So, I’m going to copy that and hopefully it’s useful to you too and that you can apply it to any future pages or blogs or websites that you set up.

That’s it from me. Just a quick tip and thanks to Ed Dale for pointing that out.

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Thanks for watching and I’ll see you inside the next video.