Best way to contruct a global custom field?

I would use an option page which would show up in the settings.
I used Example #2 from here for a few of my projects.

Then you would use it in your theme like this:

$o = get_option('my_option_name'); // how you named the options from Example #2
$field = $o['field_name']; // how you named the field
echo $field;