Vizify

Want to create a personal website without putting a lot of thought into design, content, or much else? Vizify might be perfect for you. Once you've created a page with them, you get pretty much the same design as every other customer?there's no way to customize yourself out of their mesh-network-graphic front page?but it's a great design with some great features. Just not enough extras. The site is still invite only (the first 250 PCMag readers who use the code PCMagGo when creating accounts will get instant access without having to wait).

Unlike personal Web page sites like Flavors.me (our Editors' Choice) and About.me that build a great looking site using a user-provided large static image as the background, Vizify's look is a more dynamic looking web of link icons. At first view, you might think that Vizify is built using Adobe Flash, so what's the big deal? That's all HTML 5 programming, making that web of iconic links look that good. As such, Vizify's pages scale down and look great even on a smartphone browser. They're fast and responsive and you get from page to page on Vizify very fast. Just click a round link to jump directly, or use the arrow on the right to cycle through the pages.

The key to success with Vizify is to already have a presence on the major social networks. You sign in using one of those accounts, then link all the rest. LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, and Instagram are all supported. Vizify will pull in pertinent information for its various pages, as well as provide direct links to those services on your Links page.

Each Vizify site consists of a number of stock page types that you can edit. When you land on a page when signed in to your account, click the edit button in the upper right to change it. Visitors get the option to share the pages via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest, Tumbler, or email.

Click Edit when you're on the home page and you get to see and change the entire content overview, such as what services you pull your profile photo from, page arrangement, the color scheme, or link Vizify to a new service (limited to the five you can use to log-in).

Pages you get include:

Links to all your social networks, plus more you can add like a personal site, company site, blog, or more. Title of the link is limited to a piddling 25 characters

Locations you've called home with animation to show the order in which you lived in those places.

Words builds an interactive, real-time updatable word-cloud of what you say most on Twitter, if you really need such a thing.

Factoid page(s) let you insert interesting facts about yourself, such as how many years you've worked, or number of cats you own.

Photo page(s) naturally let you feature a big piece of art you upload (or pull from Instagram or Facebook).

Quote page(s) let you layer in as many pithy prose one-liners as you thing people can stand.

Activities is a page only for those with a Foursquare account; it's meant to show off what you've done lately. It doesn't work with Facebook check-ins.

Career page builds a timeline of your work and education history, based on your LinkedIn profile info. You can edit it after the fact, but can't pull in more updates from LinkedIn.

Education to show off where you went to college(s) or high school. Vizify will slap your college's logo on the page if the logo is in its database.

Vizify also promotes its "visual email signature," to add add to Gmail, Outlook, or any that supports Rich Text signatures. It's essentially a quick way of linking people back to your Vizify site.

You can make your bio private on Vizify. That defeats the purpose, but handy if you want the site to take a break. You can also easily delete your account, which not all services make easy, so Kudos for that.

The downsides to Vizify are in the details. For example, text boxes don't always support HTML, even if you just want a simple link; Vizify wants all your links on the Links page only. It would be nice if your homemade links on the Links page could bea differentiated by a unique icon or a thumbnail image you provide.

You can change your Vizify URL any time ? the format is always www.vizify.com/yourname. Sadly, Vizify doesn't support using a domain name, one of the best features of Flavors.me. While you can always go to a third party and point it at your Vizify page, it's not a clean as having the domain be part of the service, like it is with Flavors.me.

If you need ultra-simple setup and a clean, responsive interface for a personal Web page, Vizify is a great pick. It lacks the extras that put Flavors.me and About.me in the upper echelon, but keep an eye on this service. Eventually Vizify might top them all.?

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