some things

hey hey

my english is not really great :) im tryin to keep it good :)

the reation about the "function"
you said, no guestbook, im totally agree with it, just a simple mailbox, for private use. no "status" etc, like facebook. i dont think that people like to hang out at a website with people who you never met before. facebook is just more for "real friends".
just only a mailbox, only for personal use, to connect with other people at the website.

pixazza.com, i luke the tagging iea too, it's smart, and it would make easier to find answers.

Minimum/Maximum amount of text at the front page

Minimum:

-name/title
-home
-search (engine)
-log-in (+register form)
-about
-categories
-slogan-ish little explanation (just a couple of sentences)

Maximum:

-name/title
-home
-search
-log-in (+register form)
-about
-categories
-slogan-ish little explanation (just a couple of sentences)
-last post-thing
-featured bloggers (one for each categorie, weekly basis?)
- ...?

The Good!

Both are from ilovetypography.com - I cropped the page when making the screenshots to leave the tiny little advertisements and stuff out; I think a page design like this, like I captured, would work out neat.

Also, regarding to our users, what about something like the screenshot below?
We could feature one person for each category (fashion/architecture/graphic design etc.) on a weekly basis ..

pixazza.com

this is what I found during research:

www.pixazza.com

Its close to our idea, based on pictures which you can tag ( name, brand, price ). As far as I understand the website, it doesnt have a community, so therefore different from ours.
you should have a look at it. For me personally, it looks too comercial ( you get the store where you can buy it from, and who uploaded the pictures anyway?). If you have an community that gives the answer maybe this feeling isnt as strong anymore and you have more trust into the webpage and dont feel like there is someone that wants your money. maybe this should be our goal.

I do like the tagging thing though.
what do you think?

*** THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY ***

Bad

Boring Layout and too much categories





Bad
too much text and information
confusing

*** FUNCTIONS ***

I just write down, what I think it could be useful.

Registration > User Profile > Guestbook for each User > Mailbox > Friendlist > Personal Foto upload > Avatar

For the Answer-Postings > Maybe a Scale you can define for yourself, how sure you are that you know the answer
from 1 to 3.
1= I know it 100%
2= It could be
3= I guess, because the style or the colours look like ...

What is Web 2.0 ?

Internet has become a platform – a social platform. Not just screens of text and graphics, but an active playground. Nowadays, it regularly happens that the users make or break the site – YouTube wouldn’t have half its success if only editors could upload video’s.
Its a whole new kind of social revolution – people do things at the web they don’t do (more so, would NEVER do) in real life; this is at the same time the great success and the great shittyness of the web.
At the same time, researchers and (wetenschappers) look at the web to see what’s goin’ on – what the youth is up to, what the new trends in social behaviour and language are; common people, and not the police, often have the news-scoops (Hoek v. Holland).
Web 2.0 web sites allow users to do more than just retrieve information.

To speak with Lev Grossman:
It's a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It's about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people's network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. It's about the many, wresting power from the few, and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes.


WE ...

Our (roughly sketched) concept: to set up a Question & Answer site where the aimed-at-user can upload selfmade pictures – for instance, a photograph of a dress or shirt someone you passed by was wearing and you want to know the brand or designer of; people will react and give answers, discuss the design, share thoughts and so on. Communityforming between people with the same interests will begin to grow (or so we hope), there’s your personalized profile etc.

We want to look like and be a social platform (Web 2.0 : open, freedom, collective intelligence, social revolution, a flow of creativeness.
many 2.0 sites are one of these two and not both of them; mostly the design is too much Web 1.0 – loads of text on the front page, too much scrolling), we want to focus on the user’s needs – the user decides what’s important.
We aim at the, sort of, experienced user – the user that is willing to participate, be interactive and brings the site to its supposed level primary users are – more or less – openminded, curious and cultural people (= people with great interests in art/architecture/fashion/music/graphic design/you name it).