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Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 631: Customizing a Personal Webpage.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 631. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California.

Our website is eslpod.com. Go there to download a Learning Guide for this episode that will help you improve your English even faster.

This episode is called “Customizing a Personal Webpage.” Many people have their own pages – their own websites. We’ll talk about some of the vocabulary that might be related to that, especially on social networking sites such as Facebook. Let’s get started.

Keiko: The layout of your webpage is so lame. Why don’t you customize it?

Al: Why bother? I don’t want to spend the time or the energy.

Keiko: Let me show you my page. Check out this background. Don’t you think it’s great?

Al: Yeah, it’s great. Can I get back to my book now?

Keiko: You haven’t even looked at my page. Look at this. You can add all kinds of graphics and you can use the profile