A popular topic covered in the Nifty Websites Collection is website creation. We’re on a mission to make sure everyone who wants an easy way to create a website, knows the options. With that in mind, Flavors.me is another outstanding way to take advantage of point and click website creation.

Why Flavors?

For starters, creating a gorgeous web presence or personal space shouldn’t take less than 10 minutes, with Flavors it does. Combine that with zero coding, personalized domain, content inclusion from 35 services, mobile view, statistics tracking and an unbelievably low cost and you’ve got a remarkably full featured aggregator.

Flavors offers two packages, Free and Premium. A free account delivers access to 5 services, 222 fonts and 7 layout options. The free plan offers users a simple effective way to create their own personal space. A premium account provides 10 more layout options, access to all services, mobile site view, statistics, contact forms, custom URL and content. The premium account is $20/year. In our opinion, $20 is a fantastic value.

Why Not Flavors?

Experienced webmasters and those familiar with coding and/or those comfortable with servers and databases might see Flavors as a bit limiting. Flavors isn’t a likely choice if you’re designing a business website or merchant outlet. Instead, Flavors is targeted towards individual web spaces or perhaps those looking to promote a cause.

Flavors is a personal portal designed to be simple and concise while at the same time elegant and beautiful. They succeed, but because of that nature users shouldn’t expect a robust selection of interface manipulations.

Final Thoughts

After reviewing sites like Flavors, we’re always left wondering what the web would have been like a dozen years ago if these types of site creators had been around. Not everyone can be a coder and even webmasters can’t be every kind of coder necessary to create wonderful websites. Flavors removes all that trouble and provides a point and click way to design a personal web space for even the most green of novices.

Flavors is an incredible value at $20 a year and although the free account is limited in terms of content possibilities, it’s more than adequate for those just getting started.

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Are you serious about building a website for yourself? Serious enough that you’ve even considered hiring someone? If so, then there may be an alternative for those who want more than a free alternative and are willing to pay for a good look. Virb.

Website Builder

Virb is a website builder. Users interested in creating their very first website on their own will find Virb to be wildly simple in its usage. Pages are created with simple copy/paste or in browser delivery of content. Within a few short clicks, new users can have a page up and running on their Virb site.

Menus, widgets, photo slideshows and music albums are all standard parts of the Virb builder. Each has its own nuances, but all are manipulated with quick drag and drop functionality. Photo albums and slideshows can be rearranged infinitely and Virb can import photos from Flickr for added convenience.

Virb blog creation has exactly what you’d expect from a blogging platform with options to add video, quote blocks, photos and other typical features. Those with Tumblr accounts can incorporate their Tumblr updates to automatically post on the Virb site.

Features

So what makes Virb a desirable choice? Well, beyond its ease of use, there are a number of other things to consider. Virb sites allow for unlimited pages which makes content creation limitless.

Along with pre-designed themes, users can custom create themes to showcase their own unique style and personality. Pre-designed themes we viewed were of good quality with a wide range of style variation.

A feature that is regularly sought after is that of custom domains. Virb covers those as well. Other important features worth noting are the social media integration and site analytics. Social media components include Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo, Soundcloud and others.

Have Nots

Virb is fairly all inclusive, however there are a couple things they don’t provide. Email is one of them. Anyone who wants to use Virb as a main portal for showcasing themselves won’t be able to have dedicated email through Virb. The flip-side to that is by associating your Gmail account with your Virb website you can still have a contact option.

Virb doesn’t sell domain names so if that is important to you, then places like GoDaddy and others are still your best bet.

Bottom Line

Virb isn’t free. The monthly charge of $10 goes back to our opening which references the seriousness of your website dedication. Clearly, if you’re going to pay monthly, then you should be convinced that a website builder like Virb is what you’re after. Fortunately, Virb offers a 10-day free trial to test things out. Since it only takes about 5 minutes to build a multi-page website, 10 days worth should be plenty of time to get used to and test out the interface.

Virb is like others we’ve seen that are free with premium options. The difference though is that you get everything right from the get-go with Virb. No need to add-on this and that later, you’ve already got it. As we hinted at earlier, Virb is for the more dedicated user. Virb is easy enough for anyone to use, though those who intend on regular updates, content additions and single webspace visibility will get the most benefit. Virb’s intuitive building interface makes the process lightning quick while maintaining deep detail options.

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