February 11, 201214 yr Hello, I'm studying web technologies and I'd like to present you my second website to review. Would be glad for any response. It's not a usual website - I'd say it has no design at all It's a sort of web service. Using it you can create your own graphical boards for drawing and share them with your friends. You can do it in a few steps: 1. Think up an original name for your board, for example, CAT. 2. Type the address of your board in your browser address bar: http://sharedboard.hostei.com?name=CAT'>http://sharedboard.hostei.com?name=CAT 3. Open your board. Congratulations - now you have a graphical board for drawing! 4. Send the link of your board http://sharedboard.hostei.com?name=CAT to your friends, publish it on your blog, website, twitter, forum, etc. 5. You can insert the image of your board into your website using HTML tag: <img src="http://www.sharedboard.hostei.com/CAT" > CAT is the name of a file where the image of your board is kept. For example, here is MY BOARD You can draw something there and save, and I'll see it What do you think about the usability and usefulness of this service? Edited February 11, 201214 yr by miklnsk
February 15, 201214 yr seems very easy to me (could maybe have a text box on your home page, type in the unique name press submit and it will take you to your board. Only thing is if someone types in a same word as you, they will see your board and can draw over it fun project though : )
February 15, 201214 yr I like the idea & how it works, it wouldn't be something I'd probably use myself but I can see there being a market for it. I have a couple of suggestions; It would add a lot to it if you could include basic shape tools. I think you need to reconsider the site design. Look at some landing/holding/coming soon pages for inspiration. Work out what you think will be your main target audience, and design with that in mind. I agree with Treend about having a text box & submit button to take you to the url. Can these somehow be made private? Good luck!
February 16, 201214 yr Author With things like Skype and screensharing, this all seems a bit dunfunct. I can;t see why anyone would want to share some random paint doodles - unless I'm missing something major? Well, I don't pretend to compete with Skype or whatever else. Though I hope it could be useful in some cases. For example, if you have a blog and would like to have a kind of a "wall" for your readers to draw on it to express their feelings you could give them a link to your board and you can put the image of the board directly onto your blog, so everybody could see it.
February 16, 201214 yr Author I like the idea & how it works, it wouldn't be something I'd probably use myself but I can see there being a market for it. I have a couple of suggestions; It would add a lot to it if you could include basic shape tools. I think you need to reconsider the site design. Look at some landing/holding/coming soon pages for inspiration. Work out what you think will be your main target audience, and design with that in mind. I agree with Treend about having a text box & submit button to take you to the url. Can these somehow be made private? Good luck! I agree with you. A bit of web design would make the site better. I know a bit of PHP and javascript but nothing about web design so now I have to get into the basic web design principles to reconsider the site design Also I agree with you and Treend that having a text box and submit button is much more user friendly than just typing commands in an address bar. Regarding the basic shape tools - I have thought about it. But it takes time to do it. Thank you for your good wishes!
February 16, 201214 yr Author seems very easy to me (could maybe have a text box on your home page, type in the unique name press submit and it will take you to your board. Only thing is if someone types in a same word as you, they will see your board and can draw over it fun project though : ) well, I agree, a text box and submit button is much more user friendly. As to the privacy of board - you can think out a really unique name, for example, gffsduyfsduyFGFKcvhgv, so nobody can type it again
February 16, 201214 yr Cool idea! Can imagine it might liven up the workplace at a few procrastination-heavy offices...
February 19, 201214 yr Author Cool idea! Can imagine it might liven up the workplace at a few procrastination-heavy offices... for those who fall in procrastination I've created a site The Night Sky
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