Skrawlr

Skrawlr is a bare-bones method for creating personal landing pages, based on code created by Lifehacker. It's meant to convey your personal style with one big background image and your personal life with text and links that float above that background. It's utterly devoid of extras or personalization, so it's not for those with a need for control. However, there's something to be said for setting up an entire personal Webpage in seconds, which Skrawlr delivers.?

You can set up an account by filling in the form on the Skrawlr home page. You pick a username for the site and that's used to provide a URL at Error! Hyperlink reference not valid.. That's the only option you have, there's no domain name support via the site.?

Skrawlr's control panel floats on the page, and it asks for some personal data and usernames for your social networks (Flicker, Picasa, YouTube, Twitter, Vimeo, and Formspring are the only services that are supported?no Facebook). Fill it in, upload a background image and voil?. You're done.

The text box will show your "about you" data, and the links appear above it, all justified to the right. You can't change the font or the positioning. Even the text you enter can't support basic HTML codes, so you can not create extra links.

No Fuss, No Frills
Skrawlr doesn't do anything extra for you. It won't resize your background image to fit perfectly; you'll have to do that yourself (and make it smaller than 2MB when you edit it or it won't upload). If it's too big, it bleeds off screen; too small and it tiles annoyingly. You can't set a preference for centering or tiling.

Skrawlr doesn't take your or anyone else's screen resolution into account, either. The complete lack of customization and odd choice of link support are maddening when you compare Skrawlr to other landing page services like Editors' Choice winner Flavors?or About.me. For example, while there's no Facebook link, you can click a Facebook icon to share your Skrawlr page with your friends. The only upside is the price and speed?it's free and a page can be set up in mere seconds. But that's not enough. ?When you can get so much more for free from other services, it's not worth skimping unless you absolutely need something immediately.

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