Take 2: Pageflakes

Wow, a quick makeover really impressed me; Pageflakes’ once caterpillar of a GUI has morphed into a beautiful butterfly. With preloaded themes, and options to create your own theme, its a wonder how Pageflakes finished this upgrade within a good half day. With that said, asides from the quite major GUI change, there’s really little difference in how Pageflakes works.

First thing I checked, and was pleased to see was that deleting a page is now much simpler of a process; there is now just a regular close button. It’s a much simpler and intuitive move, especially when compared to the previous more “complicated” method.

Navigation has changed a bit too; prior to this upgrade, the links leading to customizations were in regular words; now, all these links can be accessed via a click of the Pageflakes orb logo. In my humble opinion, it’s a very nice move, and it has definitely paid off. Kind of reminds me of a simpler version of the Microsoft Office Ribbon though…not that it’s a bad thing, mind you.

The themes now include a background in the body of the page as well as a header graphic; it seems a bit more powerful than before. However, sometimes, it can be quite overwhelming. I decided to stick with a plain Aqua theme, for now.

There are now also many more preset layout options; Pageflakes will automatically resize your columns for you! I decided this was a good thing, as it added a nice touch to my own page.

As I’ve said for the umpteenth time, asides from the major GUI upgrade, there really isn’t much difference; however, I thought that Pageflakes was already pretty decent in terms of everything. The GUI upgrade I would consider a definite plus! Well, what are you waiting for, go try Pageflakes now!