WebSlide: A New Way to Collaborate on Your Designs
- Date
- 07.12.09
- Comments
- 8
How do you display your creative mockups to clients? Do you email them a package of images? Or maybe a single, poorly compressed PDF? Or do you spend a bunch of time dropping images into HTML wrappers and placing them up on a demo site? I’ve tried all of them and I found that none of them really gave me and my clients what we really needed.
In June 2009, I released an alpha-version of an interface for viewing images in a slideshow-like format called WebSlide. It was great and served its purpose, but still wasn’t enough. While simple, it was still slightly cumbersome to set up if you weren’t comfortable with JavaScript. On top of that servers it was being tested on quickly became quite unorganized and people were forgetting just where their WebSlide revisions were at.
So, in comes the real WebSlide. A hosted application that lets you quickly and painlessly manage and share designs, mockups, and all sorts of your pretty pictures.
Features
- Organize projects by client
- Control project access for multiple user-levels
- Post and review multiple project revisions
- Fast and easy interface for uploading multiple images at once and organizing them
- Email notifications to users when new revisions are posted
- Track comments on each project revision
Demo
Here’s a quick video of me uploading this project revision for WebSlide:
I Want It Now!
WebSlide is currently in beta-testing mode. Registration keys are being given out as more bugs are squashed, so if you’d like to become a beta-tester or be notified when WebSlide is publicly available, please sign up at the WebSlide home page.
8 Comments
Wow, usability at its finest, that interface is as slick as can be.
Just wondering, because I just want to learn more:
a) about how long did this project take (actual hours vs. duration)? What tools did you use to manage it?
b) Where do you get advice on those legal policies like ToS and Privacy?
You can email me privately or reply, I don't mind either way.
Tight. Love it.
Kamran: Time is pretty relative on this. If I were to guess, I'd say I've probably spent about 120-140 hours total up to now, though there is still a lot to do. More info will be sent to your email address…
Jake: Thanks!
Nice work, Paul. This will be hot when it comes out! =D
Great work Paul you're the man!
Are you using any particular framework?
And one more thing.. how do you manage subdomains? I mean, are you using Cpanel's "APIs" or some particular Apache configuration?
As I tweeted before: really awesome (and interesting) project Paul!
Slick - Nice work Paul!
This is beauty...
Especially the download posibilities!
Great and a big thank you