My Flavor
I can not design a website. I can sketch the layout on paper, showing where I want this, and where I want that, but I can not make it happen. I know all about html and css but just do not have the time or inclination to master it. I have Dreamweaver, but do not have the time or inclination to master it. I have iWeb, but find it clunky. This should be simple.
Therefore, I am left to the mercy of blog and website templates. Unfortunately, to customize these, I again end up under the hood screwing with (up) the code.
I want something easy, simple, and intuitive to help me lay out my “Homepage” and I may have found it. Or at least the best fit yet. It’s called flavors.me and Andy Welfle turned me on to it. Then @jackzerby from flavors.me hooked me up with a beta invite.
First off, it literally took me 15 minutes to set up this “portal” to many of my other online presences. The design/layout is clean and not fussy. The dashboard makes it all easy to set up. Here is a screen cap of the main page…
The cool thing about Flavors is that the “services” I add on the site open up directly on the main page, like this one for my Twitter feed…
and this one for my Tumblr feed…
At the bottom of the feed is the link to click-thru directly to my Tumblr page.
Simple, right?
Here is a video link with a better description of what Flavor.me does.
Flavors asked for input so here is my 2 cents :
1) Ability to use any font on my computer
2) Drop shadow for “about” box and “feed” box
3) More available services in addition to Twitter, Last.fm, Tumblr, Vimeo, Flickr, and Facebook. Perhaps Linked In, 8 Tracks, Blogger, Wordpress, etc.
Now I know some will claim that it is too limited. It doesn’t have enough functionality.
That is exactly what I like about it. That is what I need and have been looking for.
So go get your invite and see how easy it is.
