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Nix the slovenly shorthand and do the whole “show, don’t tell” thing they teach you about in high school creative writing classes: Craft a homepage that shows your personality and demonstrates your skills (services like Flavors.me make that idiot-proof), for example.

When he wanted to change jobs last June, Jared Kreiner, a public relations account supervisor in New York, designed his own job-hunting site, www.jaredkreiner.com. Shortly afterward, a former colleague who was about to leave the public relations firm G. S. Schwartz & Company recommended Mr. Kreiner to her manager as a possibility to replace her — and mentioned his Web site. “I think my site helped me get the job,” Mr. Kreiner says. He removed his résumé when he started work, but reposted it when he was laid off last December because of cost cuts. He is now actively promoting the site. Mr. Kreiner includes his Web site’s URL in online applications and in cover letters, and uses Google Analytics to find out how many people have visited his site and downloaded his résumé. “I always get good feedback,” he said. “People I’ve interviewed with have said my site helped them decide whether or not to meet with me and that they forwarded the URL to their colleagues and every other person I would potentially be meeting with in the interview process.

Be yourself: Video is such a rich and engaging medium it is perfect for showing the personality of your brand. It is a great way to set tone and speak to your customers and prospects in an authentic voice. Flavors.me does a terrific job of this through music and images alone, letting actions speak louder than words in convincing you that they can make your personal homepage look amazing because they do such a killer job of presenting themselves through this video. Style personified.

For me, Flavors offers three really significant things for someone trying to make a quick, distinctive website:

01 Simplicity: There are no pages, posts, comments or widgets to worry about. You can actually create the whole site in about 30 minutes, which for a website is pretty remarkable

02 Versatility: Despite this, no two Flavors.me sites I have seen look the same. And it gives you the chance to use the whole browser window and create a really attention grabbing theme.

03 Curation: Flavors.me was designed to provide a one-stop shop for all our different digital outlets. So you connect your Twitter feed, your blog output, your Tumblr, Flickr and Vimeo feeds –- and they can all be viewed from one page.

So perhaps you’ve been using the internet for a while now: you have a Twitter account for tweeting random tidbits of info; a blog for longer online rants; a LinkedIn account for your online business connections; a Facebook page to keep in touch with friends and family; all your videos are on YouTube and your photos are all on Flickr.com.

Problem is, where do you send people when they might be interested in everything you do? I recently found out about a neat service called Flavours.me that pulls all the scattered digital pieces of you into one nice looking homepage.

Flavours.me is a snazzy free service that creates a home for you and all the things you do on the net. It basically makes one simple web page which links to all the other services you might use, be it a blog, photo sharing or otherwise.

If you have any web coding knowledge it’s pretty easy to get a site like this up on your own but Flavours.me does it all quickly, easily and most importantly: free. I decided to give the service a try and see if it really lived up to it’s tagline “make a homepage in minutes”. It really was true because you create a login and then boom you’re already editing your site…

While other website services can make a more complicated site, there is a power and a beauty in the simple, elegant design of Flavours.me. It’s a great way to make yourself a new homepage that will grab some attention in the new year.

Where the heck have y’all been my entire adult life? Right now, as I am typing this, I am in the process of ditching my old service and embracing Flavors.me. This has to be one of the easiest, most LOGICAL way of doing things that (up until now) has taken a lot of time and sometimes a lot of money. I bow at your feet. You’ve made my life so much simpler. Thank you!

Social Networking sites are making it impact stronger day by day. Mostly everyone has got it presence in social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Linkedin, Foursquare etc. Millions of profiles share lots of cool information, links, images to their friends and strangers. But sometime, I think that I need a personal website to group all my social activities together at one place.

But, I always drop idea because I don’t have too much time designing the websites. I am sure there are many other people like me who wanted to create their online presence to show the world who you are and what you do. Most of the people also drop the idea because they don’t know about HTML/CSS coding, money and time involved.

However, now creating a personal website is just 2 minutes way and that is without having knowledge of any programming language. Flavors.me is a service that allows you to create your beautiful, elegant webpage free of cost.

After tweaking with every feature available, I am quite sure that this is an impressive service and shows a lot of potential. You can have unlimited options available in design. I think this is the best service to make an awesome microsite for specially those who don’t have their own domains.

Flavors.me is the coolest website - it lets you stream all your feeds to one pretty site you set up yourself - Hallelujah! This essentially means you don’t need another homepage that you have to pay $$$ for. So as an artist with a tumblr, twitter, soundcloud, flickr and now bandcamp account you can stream all those feeds to one page you set up on flavors - for free! Really easy to use and of course you can use your own url. I know I sound like a salesperson here but gosh! Here’s to logical tools that make life easier for the DIY.

Bonus pro tip: Flavors.me. We wrote this up before, but you’re gonna want a sexyhot portfolio or resume website in seconds, right? Lots of Auto-ers have one already, like Rachel, Taylor and Alex, who are obviously on the bleeding edge of something here.

As individual brands become more interconnected with social media, we also find that open APIs have really pushed along development in this arena. Flavors.me has done a great job simplifying and beautifying this process, with a few premium perks to attract revenue. The site launched to great accolades earlier this year, and has since been steadily building its support for streaming sites, adding to its premium feature set, and setting sights on the future.

Since launch Flavors.me has done a complete rewrite of its front-end system, in order to streamline the processes around customizing your personal landing page. Competing with the likes of Posterous and Tumblr, Flavors.me has far more custom options in terms of layout and design, an area where Flavors.me excels. Creating a landing page for all my social networking activity was actually a fun process for me using Flavors.me, and user engagement really enables individuals to put their own stamp on things, heightening their investment in the service itself.

This dedication to design and content flow is a concept that’s finally taking precedence in recent media launches, as we saw with Flipboard for the iPad. Now that we’ve worked out a few sensible ways to collect social media content from across the web, it’s time to find the best methods of delivering that to the people that matter. Usability is a prime focus for Flavors.me, and it shows.

And while Flavors.me concentrates its efforts on design, usability and growth from this point on, it faces steep competition from the likes of Tumblr, which recently raised capital from Sequoia, and Posterous, which is launching access points to simple blogging and redistribution across a number of devices. Of course, the success of other platforms is still good for Flavors.me, as it thrives on our desire to post on various social sites. But becoming the central mechanism for our social media presence is a tall order.

Flavors.me still has room to grow beyond the design aspects of landing page customization, and it could go in a number of directions based on its end goals. As analytics become more important to individual brands, that concept of aggregating content will lend itself naturally to this growing sector. For the time being, look out for more updates with Flavor.me’s premium feature set, with options like direct domain-buying if you’ve ponied up the $20 for a yearly subscription.