Zerply

If you are looking for work, send employers to your landing page at Zerply (free, with premium themes), a site that specializes in "going beyond the r?sum?." You'll be happy with the resulting page of data, but Zerply doesn't end there, as it has integrated lots of social networking features. Ultimately those features are just to bolster its user base and get you to stay on the site longer than necessary. You're better off getting in quick to build a r?sum? page and going back to a real social network to make friends.

Getting Started
You can sign up quickly via your Facebook or Twitter accounts, and Zerply will pull some tags describing you and your profile pic. Don't worry, you can change it. Provide a bio and more specific tags, change that picture to something presentable, import your life experience from either Facebook or LinkedIn, add link to some social networks (there's a long list), and then pick a theme. If you use BeHance to show your digital portfolio, for example, you can integrate it with your Zerply account. Unlike our Editors' Choice for r?sum? pages, Re.vu , which eschews links to social networks, Zerply embraces them in a fashion similar to the standard landing page sites like Flavors.me and About.me .

Your public profile page will live at zerply.com/username. You can't edit data while looking at that page, however; all the content is edited on profile editing pages, because there isn't much you can change in the look of the public page. You only get four themes to pick from. (If you invite three people to join Zerply, you can unlock a fifth theme, or you can buy others for $19 each (ouch!)) Like Re.vu, this site is about showing your work history more than anything, so a fancy background image is not the most important feature.

The Resume Look
The presentation on the public page is much more r?sum?-esque than Re.vu, which isn't necessarily bad; in fact, Zerply's templates look pretty great. It's a nice mix of the connections people can make to you via social networks and the r?sum? data. There are also links for visitors to download a vCard with your data, map your location, send you an email, or share your profile on Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn.

Note that if you make changes to your experience on LinkedIn or Facebook, those changes are not reflected on your Zerply r?sum? page unless you do a new full import of the data. More likely you'll edit the info on Zerply, creating two different sets of data.

Once directed to the Zerply dashboard, you'll see that, like Flavors.me, Zerply wants to usurp your time with a stream of data from others you follow. You'll be asked to find your friends on Facebook and Twitter who also use Zerply, a move that encourages more visits to the site?something that's far more for Zerply's benefit than yours. Getting "endorsements" is also a feature, but seems unnecessary when you may have them at a full social network LinkedIn. Zerply doesn't import LinkedIn endorsements to your r?sum? landing page.

Options
There's an upgrade option of $15 a year to support a custom domain, pointing to your Zerply r?sum?. You'll have to buy it at a registrar first and then follow the directions so the domain name redirects.

If you're into the unneeded social aspects (useful if all your friends need a r?sum? too, but who needs the competition?), I'd recommend Zerply, but Re.vu has a leg up on the presentation side of things with its timeline view and other display extras. That's why Re.vu is Editors' Choice. Generating that kind of buzz may be just what you need to get a new job, and it's a buzz Zerply doesn't deliver yet. When you're not looking for a job, the best all-around personal Web page creator, however, is the excellent Flavors.me, our Editors' Choice in the space.

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