June 7, 2003
tabulas
i split up the previous entry into two entries... i also want to write a little more ... so hit the 'read more' for the entry posted yesterday, continue reading here for new stuff.
i locked myself in my room and spent 6 hours designing new UI systems for tabulas. i worked specifically on the gallery portions because i've always felt they were the weak points in terms of UI for tabulas.
i got out about 3-4 solid designs ... that i'm pretty happy with. i showed them to a few people, and i seemed to get a pretty good response from them. it's going to be a helluva lot of work to break it down to XHTML/CSS ... but once i get it up ... YAY!
oh hell. i'll upload them and show you guys ... three links below
link 1
link 2
link 3
edit: gah, the last two are slightly screwed up. the last one shouldn't have that image aligned towards the top ... the 2nd link displays the wrong box on the right side.
but i am much too tired to fix them up in photoshop. i will actuay take them to HTML tomorrow. wheeee. i'm tired. sleep time.
i've decided pretty much to segment tabulas into subprojects; i'm going to work on tabulas gallery 1.0 ... and release that. then i'll work on tabulas integration 1.0 ... then on tabulas journal 1.0. i think it makes it easier to manage the projects if i subdivide them into smaller projects.
i may also have a potentially large windfall coming in (financially) ... if i do, i can purchase a separate server for tabulas, but it'll have to be a short-term fix, as i will only have enough money to tide me for 4-5 months. which means that within 4-5 months of launching tabulas 1.0, i'll need to get enough subscriptions to tide me over.
if you're still reading this, i'll let you speak up. what features should be locked out of the free accounts? how much should you get for free? what should you get when you pay? ($20/year is the price i'm leaning towards). right now, the only feature i've locked out for sure is the hit logging; it is way too cpu intensive to give to everyone. also, i'll probably limit the gallery options; the existing 1px black border will probably be the only option for free users; paid users will get more styles (which i'm experimenting with now). i will also probably limit the ability to download your journal (backup) to once a month for free users as opposed to once a week for paid users. annnnndd of course, the gallery. i'm leaning towards 250 images for free users, 650 images for beta users, and 1000 for paid users. but then again, i may completely abandon that system and do a "pay for space" type deal.
i locked myself in my room and spent 6 hours designing new UI systems for tabulas. i worked specifically on the gallery portions because i've always felt they were the weak points in terms of UI for tabulas.
i got out about 3-4 solid designs ... that i'm pretty happy with. i showed them to a few people, and i seemed to get a pretty good response from them. it's going to be a helluva lot of work to break it down to XHTML/CSS ... but once i get it up ... YAY!
oh hell. i'll upload them and show you guys ... three links below
link 1
link 2
link 3
edit: gah, the last two are slightly screwed up. the last one shouldn't have that image aligned towards the top ... the 2nd link displays the wrong box on the right side.
but i am much too tired to fix them up in photoshop. i will actuay take them to HTML tomorrow. wheeee. i'm tired. sleep time.
i've decided pretty much to segment tabulas into subprojects; i'm going to work on tabulas gallery 1.0 ... and release that. then i'll work on tabulas integration 1.0 ... then on tabulas journal 1.0. i think it makes it easier to manage the projects if i subdivide them into smaller projects.
i may also have a potentially large windfall coming in (financially) ... if i do, i can purchase a separate server for tabulas, but it'll have to be a short-term fix, as i will only have enough money to tide me for 4-5 months. which means that within 4-5 months of launching tabulas 1.0, i'll need to get enough subscriptions to tide me over.
if you're still reading this, i'll let you speak up. what features should be locked out of the free accounts? how much should you get for free? what should you get when you pay? ($20/year is the price i'm leaning towards). right now, the only feature i've locked out for sure is the hit logging; it is way too cpu intensive to give to everyone. also, i'll probably limit the gallery options; the existing 1px black border will probably be the only option for free users; paid users will get more styles (which i'm experimenting with now). i will also probably limit the ability to download your journal (backup) to once a month for free users as opposed to once a week for paid users. annnnndd of course, the gallery. i'm leaning towards 250 images for free users, 650 images for beta users, and 1000 for paid users. but then again, i may completely abandon that system and do a "pay for space" type deal.
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spaceinthewho
given any thought to a system of re-ording pics?
its a pain, yes i know... no defined easy way to do it.
perhaps, some sort of numbering system... if you show the images.
or if you don't show the images, then a combo box (not sure if thats the correct name?) where you can shift images up and down a list. however, that would require some sort of required/default name for each photo... which isn't currently required... could pose some problems...
i think the my yahoo portal uses that system of shifting things up and down (also ms access when you are ordering columns in one of the wizards)
roy
spaceinthewho
http://www.tabulas.com/gallery/attach/19_3LPC1.jpg
or is exactly what you didn't want to do...?
the only problem with ranking is that you have to make sure that you don't get 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 6, 9, etc...
roy
as for the ranking, they will be user-input so it should be easily fixable...
hkt (guest)
as for the limit, i would suggest #. don't u have a script that automatically resizes them? if u use that, we wouldn't have to worry bout the "# or space" arguement, b/c all the pix would be ruffly the same size.
and a little bit after you relase 1.0, i would suggest having a template contest. you could award beta status to the ones w/ the free option. and i think it woudl increase activity, and make the community a little bit closer.
anyways, so far so good. i really think you could take on typepad with this. no lie.
roy
And yes, a templating contest will happen :) Once Tabulas 1.0 comes out and I get standards for making templates documented, I will do it.
kato
maybe you could also limit the styles and modifications free users can have... but give them most of the functionality that paid users have... that way you won't have to store a unique style set for each user and they can just have a choice of X number of styles they can have.
roy
I can actively monitor both, but I've never been a fan of "quota by space" because it's so hard to gauge when people ask you, "so how many images is that?"
I find that using # of images as a meterstick is much more effective.
yeah, image styles is probably going to be a big point for paid users. hmm..
KLS
as for the pay system, pay for space type deal sounds like a good reasonable deal, how much, it depends though. anyway, i dunno, maybe for free users, there can be no comments on their images? i cant think of any other, if i do i post up...