I find that people who are of Latin American, South Asian, Middle Eastern, or southern European descent have no trouble pronouncing my name. The only people who have any trouble with it are WASPy Americans. I'm too lazy to learn how to draw or paint well. Collage is my visual art form of choice, because it's easy. All I have to do is cut out pictures and arrange and glue them onto paper.
Any fool can do it.
So now I collage. AltaVista, Lycos, and the rest of the commercial portals are fine, but all I really need from them are their search utilities. I don't want to wade through all the graphics, advertising, news headlines, and other dreck just to run a search. Feel free to bookmark my portal page for your convenience, or use Eric Stephan's example to design your own. If you're thinking of joining this industry, I highly recommend that you immediately turn around and run away as fast as you can.