Ramblings

So yesterday instead of a normal English class, we learned how to make ePortfolios using this nifty site called Weebly, which is probably the best free website making tool I have ever used.

It's all drag and drop, fairly customizable, no html skills required (though there is the option of simply force-feeding it the code if you want). Apparently it was made by a couple of former IST students, which really shows, because it's incredibly user-friendly. And when I say that, I mean user-friendly in such a way that it seems like they sat down and said "what will the people using this want to be able to do, and how can we make easy, self-explanitory functions that allow them to do that."

You can make regular webpages, or add a blog, or two. The navigation is created automatically. The blogging function is a bit less annoying than this one too, though you still can't comment on comments, which still drives me crazy.

To be perfectly honest though, a lot of what I really liked about Weeble was that it looked good. That's important. Like this blogging site? Sure it's functional, and it's got mostly everything you might want to use if you can bother to find it, but it isn't... pretty. The fonts are small, the layout is kind of cluttered, the colors are okay, but they're not vibrant and attractive.

It was a pretty cool site. I strongly advise checking it out.