Graffiti for the Web Tuesday 2006-09-05
Among all wonderful things, that pops up on the web, as a result of new standards and standards compliance, my latest stumble find is amazing. Virtual Street Art – Graffiti for the Web presented by Draw Here, is an application, that allows you to draw images on top of any web page and save it in the Draw Here repository. Anyone can go to the Draw Here site to look at the graffiti comments of others. Look at my first attempt to draw on my own site, to get an idea of how it looks.[Edit: Someone killed my image :/]
The application, using javascript and the canvas has all you need to make beautiful graffiti. You can vary the pen size and chose and tune colors from a palette, and set color transparency. You can create and draw on stacked layer and even set the overall transparency of any layer. To easily work on one layer at a time, you can hide and show any layer.
You launch the Draw Here application directly from their site or using a bookmarklet sitting on bookmarks toolbar. You can even include a launch button on you web page, to let visitors draw on any page you want.
If you want to save your work at the Draw Here web site and get it rated, you have to sign up for an account. They have the fastest sign up form I’ve seen. Just type in the user name and password you want in a slick little login form. If accepted, you are already logged in and ready to paint and save your first graffiti comment on any web page on the Net. Ajaxian wise, the page doesn’t even reload.
Sign up/log in and paint my world!
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Tuesday 2006-09-05
You know, this could actually be really useful if they had some serious tools. I could use it while developing a new site, to add little tweaks here and there.. see if I like them. Then if I do like them, export to a Photoshop file to make permanent changes to the site.
Tuesday 2006-09-05
Good thinking!
I’s a challenge, no doubt, but I guess we just have to wait and see. In the light of what Draw Here has accomplished, someone will come up with serious stuff sooner or later. Google, anyone?
Cheers!