why use it?

You may notice that this site is a bit simple looking, and that's the point. It's easy to find what you want and it loads fast. That is what Ngumbi is all about. I initially created this site with power users in mind, but anyone can benefit by its ease of use! It is for those who value simplicity and control freaks like me as well.

Why is it better than bookmarks/favorites? Well the obvious answer is that you can access this from any computer and with bookmarks you can't. Also, if you're like me, you don't like to use the bookmarks menu for going to sites you use everyday. I use it as more of a repository for places I want to save and will go back to when I need to, but not often. Plus I have a ton of links in there and it's a little messy, hehe.

I don't argue that Ngumbi is better in all respects than every other service, but it does certainly have advantages that appeal to people. Some of my friends used just google.com for their homepage and even "about:blank", no homepage at all, so it would load fast. It's this minimalist attitude that Ngumbi takes advantage of and expands upon. Google makes for a good homepage, but what if you could have a few links of your own to go with it?

There wasn't much in the way of personalized homepage services a while ago but now there are several on the web. They feature fancy interfaces for editing your page and lots of widgets for things like weather and news. They look nice at first but then you notice how annoying they are. They are a bit slow, sometimes have annoying ads, or usually just look like a jumbled mess. If you want a lot of fancy stuff on your homepage, Ngumbi probably isn't for you.

Another problem with these is that you may see tomorrow's weather compressed into a nice little sun and cloud picture with a couple numbers but what about radar? or weather at another location? You're better off just going to your favorite weather website for your location where you can see the entire week's forecast, full current conditions, and radar images and animations. Maybe you own stocks with an online service. You can see a quote in a little widget on your homepage but again, you are better off going to the source, just one click from your Ngumbi homepage to your trading site to see all the market data you could wish for including how much actual dollars you gained or lost, charts, etc. If you aren't currently at your Ngumbi homepage, it takes just two clicks (Home button, then your link) to get to any of your frequently used links. That's the way a homepage should be.

Make yours now