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At the main page of MyGreatWorld.com users now find a reduced and well-planned menuwithout dispensable and unwanted gadgets or pop-ups. All elemental functions arewithin easy reach and it is not before the choice of a country that the second (andmore detailed) menu expands, allowing new users to register and old users to login.
To make the database work, users are asked for the time (year or even better: year &month) and a category their picture fits in best. Any further description a userenters will be additionally indexed for key-words. The same goes for the photo'stitle. Structures and designs are straightforward and comprehensible.
Creating new spots (or uploading to those already generated) within the map-basedand coherent upload-section is still a breeze - as is the plain searchbar that willproduce the desired results in most cases. The advanced search, on the other handunderlines the fact that the sites of MyGreatWorld.com offer more than a mere poolof pretty pictures:
The Advanced Search allows for combinations of various search-parameters includingthe time of the capture, the motive, the spot, key-words in title or description andeven the filtering for a certain photographer.
"The site lives from the users' engagement and from the belief that on aninternational level there are no 'mundane' or ‘mediocre' photos: The world in allits facets is very well worth seeing and what's 'interesting' is in the eye of thebeholder..."
With MyGreatWorld.com Marco Stuewe and Thorsten Scherff prove once again that a freeand fast service can become an alternative to commercial websites and that afunctional, well developed layout helps to effectively categorize uploads, toprovide access to the data inserted and in case of MyGreatWorld.com tocommunicate the beauty of the world.
When Marco Stuewe and Thorsten Scherff called MyGreat into life their aim was toestablish an open and non-commercial platform for every user to share his/herimpressions of any place on earth. They wanted to create a database for all theinternational main destinations which would allow for a simple and fast access bothto pictures of a place or landscape and to user-comments on the respective location.
Even though MyGreatWorld.com has not officially left BETA yet, the site has alreadybeen positively acknowledged by major print media such as NATURFOTO.MyGreatWorld.com has just this April 2008 been awarded 'The Editorial Staff'sWeb-Darling' of Germanys biggest student newspaper UNICUM.Press Release Distribution By PressReleasePoint(http://www.p ressreleasepoint.com)
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