So you want to create a cool, media-rich custom webpage to share with friends and family, either out on the World Wide Web or, more specifically, on Facebook. You have options. If you own a Mac with a reasonably current version of OS X, you can purchase Apple’s iWeb utility, though anything created within that application will not migrate over to Facebook. You can try an online editor like Weebly on for size, though that also won’t satisfy your Facebook contacts. Okay, then how about PikiWiki?
Currently in alpha, PikiWiki, with its adjoining PikiPages Facebook application, offers users the option to create simple sites, complete with photos, audio and video, to easily share with associates listed within your social network. Just install the services within your Facebook account, you can immediately begin creating pages.
The PikiPages editor is relatively simple to operate. It’s not the most aesthetically pleasing device in the Facebook application marketplace, but it’s no eyesore, either. And more importantly, it gets the job done. As long as the job is a fairly elementary one. No finagling with CSS here from what we can gather. Just options to add backgrounds, change layouts, add text, designs, various embeds, photos from your Facebook archive (or uploaded from your PC), audio and video recordings. Is that enough to get by? Only the individual user can decide that, of course, but for most people interested enough to find a place for the application in their personal library of choice services, what’s included may generally be what’s needed.