Since I develop websites professionally, I wanted to evaluate how easy-to-use Flavors.me is for a less experienced web developer. So I did the logical thing, and decided to use a guinea pig: my girlfriend. Although she definitely falls into the "skilled user" category, she's not a pro Web developer. I opened an account, kick-started the process with some initial data, and then asked her to design her own website while I sat and watched.
A typical Flavors.me website consists of a large background image, a name and short bio, and social links. With a bit of taste, you can easily turn it into a classy-looking hub for your online existence, allowing easy access to your tweets, public Facebook status updates, the RSS feeds for any blogs you write in, and just about any other service you take part in online. Your tweets (and other information) can be displayed right within the site, so your visitors can browse all of your social activity easily from one place.
Flavors.me gets points for not requiring the user to know any HTML, CSS or JavaScript to make things work. Still, basic knowledge of HTML does come in handy: At one point she wanted to add a link to the short description under her name, and the visual editor decided to place it in a new paragraph rather than a new line. She then had to manually edit the HTML for that part of the site, but it was an easy fix which required editing just a couple of tags.
Flavors.me works hard to keep things simple, but sometimes goes a tad too far. For example, the entire editing interface is crammed into one floating toolbar, sensibly split into sections called About, Content, Design, and Promote. But when you click into one of these sections and start drilling in, things start getting less sensible. The Back link for going up one level is right by the current section's heading, so it doesn't stand out as a Back link at first. And indeed, clicking the heading takes you one level up in the menu--confusing, as I said.
Another point of confusion is that although the service is offered both in a free (feature-limited) version and a paid version, nowhere on the site could I find a comparison table listing the differences between the two. What's more, the price for the paid version isn't even listed on the Flavors.me front page--there's just a large "Get Started" button which very quickly gets you up and running with the free version. Once you're already in the free version of Flavors.me, you can click the Upgrade link on the top-right corner to see the comparison chart and price. I would expect this information to be available without requiring registration.