What are your favourite websites?
Well, oami.eu.int has a staggering breadth of useful online information from the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market. Also, easily.co.uk which is the easiest of the UK domain registration sites. Diytools.com offers a beguilingly simple and brilliant e-commerce system, and the UK's best sector pricing and after-sales.

Last online purchase?
A handful of domain names yesterday evening. I have just bought an apartment in Richmond and the entire apartment has been constructed on purchasing and knowledge garnered from the internet. I have made over 80 purchases online totalling about £40,000, from shower systems to oak flooring.

Ever been in a chat room?
Yes, media and industry chat rooms but also TV channels from 1 through to 5, satellite and news channels. I am a current-affairs chat room fanatic.

Most recent technological faux pas?
Purchasing an unnamed MMS-enabled mobile phone without paying careful attention to its antenna performance. I now have a phone that purports to do everything but is seldom able to establish a connection with which to do it.

Main news source on the web?
Reuters UK Online and Guardian Unlimited. Reuters because it is so flat in term of its politics and GU because it isn't, and has very creative editorial which I like.

Most useful website?
I hate to be hackneyed but it's got to be Google.

Least useful website?
Marks and Spencer online. It's incredibly slow, and stock-driven as opposed to information-driven.

Do you use a screensaver?
Agent Provocateur's murder on a train, in the Agatha Christie style.

Most irritating thing about the internet?
The surprising volume of ill-considered commercial and civic websites, many of which do little to reflect or enhance the brands and organisations represented.

What type of online business is least likely to succeed?
One that is built on any platform other than the profound understanding of internet customers.

Do you still bother with old media?
Yes. I still buy a newspaper at the weekends. I am also an avid watcher of TV. I think interactivity and incumbent old media can work very successfully.

· James Ghani is MD of ECelebrations whose site, www.merrychristmas.co.uk has just launched an e-card campaign to raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity. Interview by Sharon Bainbridge