Freewebs has launched a new “social publishing” site called Pagii, aimed at crafting highly stylized personal web pages. It’s termed social publishing because the service isn’t only for crafting user profiles, but also crafting layouts for any other content such as scrapbooks.
Pages are designed with a very flexible AJAX page editor that lets users drag, drop, and resize objects and place them anywhere on the page. It’s the kind of system any heavy MySpace user would love. The system doesn’t adhere to a grid layout and allows objects to be layered one on top of another with varying opacities. A lot of the style objects and effects are vector based (SVG), making it possible to rotate and resize them without sacrificing quality. It allows for adding nice effects like reflections and animations to page elements as well.
Objects supported by the editor include shapes, photos, text, html, and Pagii widgets. Pagii widgets allow you to add basic social networking modules such as friends, comments, and personal bio to your page. They can be reskinned to match the rest of the page design. Supporting html code in the widgets means you can also add your favorite embeddable widgets from other services too.
Pagii’s editor creates some of the most flexible layouts I’ve seen, but that kind of flexibility may seem chaotic to some. Other editors like Webjam, Weebly, Synthasite, and Jimdo have taken a more structured approach, following the grid layouts that have become the norm for websites.
I wonder people still use such services when they can have sites hosted for them on their own domain name for so cheap
Decent, although hit a few bugs after a few mins. Freewebs should be able to leverage their existing myspaceish user base which should give pagii a good kickstart.
These Vector Based pages are going to take over the web– they really add a dynamic feature to the page.
I’m surprised we don’t see SVG used in more applications.
i think that none of the myspaces should be blocked or able to be blocked
Is it flash-based SVG or browser based SVG? Microsoft needs to get off its ass and add proper standards support to IE in terms of SVG… of course, they’re pushing Silverlight now, so we’ll never see that. Oh well.
well if your intent is to give myspace a run for it’s money then you need to have the capability to run videos…. especially now that Myspace has taken a stance against any video player that is not google or youtube….
other than that, it’s nice but not all that….
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