PJ Poster Exchange Site, feedback.
Ok so I have been spending quite a bit of time the last year or so trying to track down all the prints I am missing from shows I have been to. As all of you know who have done this, it can be a PITA. You have to look through a lot of different posts here, dig through posts sometimes to find listed items. Searching takes you to threads but still requires a bunch of clicking around. When you post what you want it gets buried quickly and we all try and bump our way back to the top. Additionally it usually also requires multiple trips to expressobeans. That site has great content but the interface is horribly antiquated and slow. For a site that is about art, the actual images are very small and the site is mostly text. I know its a volunteer run sight so I am not expecting it to be beautiful, but its getting a little long in the tooth.
SO I have spent my career in the web development world and got the idea instead of complaining about it to try and build something better. So I am looking to see if anyone thinks they would actually use a site dedicated to storing your collection online and allowing you to find prints others are selling? I have created a partially working mockup online:
http://www.madcamdesigns.com/sites/pjsite/
(REMEMBER it is a mostly non functional site, all images and results are hardcoded)
The site would be very simple in what it does. Once you create an account you could search for and add prints to your collection. In the demo clicking on the find icon will show what that interface looks like (then clicking on the list image icon to the right of "marjen" will take you back). Adding prints to your collection as either "have it" or "want it" would be as simple as a single button click. As you add items to your collection it grows. Visually the prints are front end center along with Artist info. Clicking on the i button (in the demo, click the i button from the pitt munk print) would bring up additional info about the print itself, how many people have it in their collection (with link) and how many want to sell (with link).
At the top is your profile pic and name, the number of prints in your collection, the number you have for sale and the number you are seeking. In the demo the collection and search icons work and take you to different screens.
Anyway I guess I would consider taking this on as a little project is there is any interest. I would need to try and find someone to help with the tie in to the database as that is not my area of expertise. But I think this could really help make peoples search for prints easier and also give people a place to keep track of their collection online. I would most likely make it a free site with donations welcome if you make a sale or just like using it so I could keep it going.
Feedback time. Worth it or not?
SO I have spent my career in the web development world and got the idea instead of complaining about it to try and build something better. So I am looking to see if anyone thinks they would actually use a site dedicated to storing your collection online and allowing you to find prints others are selling? I have created a partially working mockup online:
http://www.madcamdesigns.com/sites/pjsite/
(REMEMBER it is a mostly non functional site, all images and results are hardcoded)
The site would be very simple in what it does. Once you create an account you could search for and add prints to your collection. In the demo clicking on the find icon will show what that interface looks like (then clicking on the list image icon to the right of "marjen" will take you back). Adding prints to your collection as either "have it" or "want it" would be as simple as a single button click. As you add items to your collection it grows. Visually the prints are front end center along with Artist info. Clicking on the i button (in the demo, click the i button from the pitt munk print) would bring up additional info about the print itself, how many people have it in their collection (with link) and how many want to sell (with link).
At the top is your profile pic and name, the number of prints in your collection, the number you have for sale and the number you are seeking. In the demo the collection and search icons work and take you to different screens.
Anyway I guess I would consider taking this on as a little project is there is any interest. I would need to try and find someone to help with the tie in to the database as that is not my area of expertise. But I think this could really help make peoples search for prints easier and also give people a place to keep track of their collection online. I would most likely make it a free site with donations welcome if you make a sale or just like using it so I could keep it going.
Feedback time. Worth it or not?
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Wish I could do cool things like this.
:-bd
2014 Cincy, Detroit, Moline, & Milwaukee
2015 Central Park
2016 Lexington, Ottawa, Toronto 1 & 2, Boston 1 & 2, Chicago 1 & 2
2017 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2018 Seattle 1 & 2, Missoula, Chicago 1
im not a web designer but ill do my part....
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if it can generate enough traffic then it will succeed. that's the only tricky part.
I imagine it would be like when the guy who invented peanut butter teamed up with the guy who invented chocolate.
Worst case I did hear back from a programmer friend of mine who might help me out with the database code. I worked with him for years, he does good work. Hoping I can talk him into a pro bono arrangement.
This is where some kind of collaboration with expresso beans would really help.
2014 Cincy, Detroit, Moline, & Milwaukee
2015 Central Park
2016 Lexington, Ottawa, Toronto 1 & 2, Boston 1 & 2, Chicago 1 & 2
2017 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2018 Seattle 1 & 2, Missoula, Chicago 1
Not only the posters. I would expand it to other collectibles and Vinyl.
You can probably make a form, so users can provide the data for new/additional things and the administrator(s) would have to approve.
You can have a trade page where people track all trades over time.
Maybe open it to other bands' stuff, especially if users are allowed to provide data/profiles for approval.