page titles & free-form text
As discussed in an earlier post, schmedley now offers you some cool new tools to “Personalize Your Page”. The first two we want to tell you about are the “Page Title” and ”Free-Form Text Area”. They allow you to add different sizes and types of text areas to your customized schmedley pages, and are especially useful on public pages. Public pages are ones that are designed and published by you and are available at a custom URL – i.e. schmedley.com/username. The icons that launch these new tools are pictured below……
NEW! – personalize & publish
Allow us to introduce you to “the other side of schmedley”…
Our new webpage creation and publishing tools.
When building in these new features, we knew we wanted to make the process as easy as possible – and – to make it virtually impossible for our users to create an ugly webpage. We decided that to do this better than other websites, we would need to have a noticeably different and elegant user experience that was streamlined and simple. And, creating a beautiful webpage takes just a few minutes.
Here’s a list of some things we DON’T have…
giant banner ads across the top …
Facebook Connect in schmedley
On November 30, 2008, Facebook released Facebook Connect, its newest social integration tool, to developers. Facebook Connect allows programmers to insert Facebook users’ information into their webpages, such as: name, basic profile information, profile picture, friends, photos, events, groups, and more. Websites that offer this integration will sport this snazzy little button supplied by Facebook…
We were integrating Facebook data into our Facebook schmidget in schmedley long before this, but the release of Facebook Connect made our job a whole lot easier. When it was first …
background art by Robb Kramer
We are excited to see that one of schmedley’s partners (and a good friend of mine), Robb Kramer, is continuing to have great success. Robb is credited as Lead Sculptor on the new film from Focus Features, Coraline.
(theatrical release: February 6, 2009)
He carved many of the set details and
all of the exterior landscapes on the film. Additionally credited with Set Design, his concepts were used for the “Orchard/Well” set, as well as the climactic “Bug …
what i’m hooked on these days…
With the exception of my wife and son, I am totally hooked on Facebook these days (who isn’t, though?). It’s not the social aspect of it that I love so much, really. It’s an application on Facebook that I am hooked on. When I tell you what it is, you will think I’m trying to be funny, but the pun is totally unintentional. The application is Fish Wrangler.
You may wonder what the fuss is about this app. and I have no idea. It is …
social networking in schmedley
I’m happy to announce that we’ve finally come across a “Web 2.0″ surveying and polling application that suits our needs…
PollDaddy – http://www.polldaddy.com.
It’s a really cool product that I know we’ll be making good use of.
So get ready, because we’re going to have LOTS of polls and surveys coming your way soon. This will help us get input from each and every one of YOU – the people who use schmedley – so that we can continue to build in the features and components that YOU want most.
We’ll be starting with this quick poll on social networking …
thumbnail screenshot services
Soon after our launch, it came to our attention that there are a lot of thumbnail screenshot services on the web (snap shots, websnapr, screenthumbs, thumbshots, thumbalizr, snapcasa, shrinktheweb, etc.) – and many of them do not provide a thumbnail of schmedley.com that is current. We noticed this after seeing more than a few thumbnails scattered around the web of our alpha-stage release (which isn’t nearly as cool-looking as our newly-released beta).
After some investigation, we discovered TONS of thumbnail screenshot service providers. Some had screenshots of …
welcome – from team schmedley
We call ourselves “team schmedley” – the team that has built a web platform that gives you the ability to personalize your own “schpace” – a place to organize your digital world and make it what you want. Use our schmidgets for personal productivity or to enhance your online presence.
Soon you’ll be able to publish content that you can share with the entire world or just a few select individuals.
Imagine a personalized launch pad, where every tool you need to communicate, catch up with your online interests and friends, share digital content and express yourself is organized and integrated into …
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