Q. What is the best machine someone could possibly design?
A. One with no moving parts.
Q. What machine has no moving parts?
A. The sundial.
Q. Therefore, what is the best machine ever designed?
A. The sundial. (Q.E.D.)
Q. What other machines have no moving parts?
A. Stonehenge (it is used for predicting the seasons based on the movement of the stars).
Q. Can you think of others?
A. (DEAR READER: FILL IN A FEW BLANKS HERE PLEASE).
Q. What other machines have, say, just one moving part?
{Hint: It is the single most valuable page on the web.}
A. The google search bar page.
Q. What is the best user interface on the web?
A. The Google search bar page. (Q.E.D.)
Q. Could Google have NOTHING on its web page except the search bar with no words or anything else and not affect its usability and provide the optimal user interface?
A. YES. YES. YES.
There, that is my lesson on producing a great User Interface on the web.
Some of the lousiest looking sites on the web work way better than multi million or billion dollar websites that have way too much stuff on them.
A writer I admire, James Howard Kunstler, has a crappy website, just like mine, but it works fine for his followers: http://www.kunstler.com/ and http://www.dramatispersonae.org/.
Dr. Bruce