Thing #21: Pageflakes
Pageflakes took me many days to navigate, and I think I was just overwhelmed at the visual “business” of the whole thing. I love the idea of pageflakes and initially began adding websites to my de.licio.us account that had to do with the first novel I am teaching, The Misfits by James Howe. I’d like to build a page around the novel, but it will take more navigation and more time to get used to this interface. I might just need to start with a scratch page rather than trying to modify what Shelley has done.
As I mentioned, the problem for me is in the visuals. I don’t like the way the page is laid out and find it very busy and unappealing. It helps to have more photo “squares,” but this is the same kind of feeling I got when playing around with the wiki. As a visual learner, I find too much text overwhelming, and this is how I found the pageflakes template. I was able to modify the “theme” so that only two columns appeared instead of three, but still I wasn’t happy.
I’d like to learn more about how to use pageflakes and found another website that seems to have a similar set up (in terms of these “block” content areas) without the blank white space and text overload. Maybe someone can direct me how to make my page more like the one at New England Cable Network. Ideas anyone??
