eMerced.com is a site I wrote, which is what I call a visual message board. You are required to post an image along with your message and the site takes the image and creates a thumbnail as well as resizes the original and displays it in a unique way using JavaScript. It’s a fun site I think. I may end up creating a RIAForge project out of it if I can take the time some day and generisize it a bit more.
SPAM you say?
I was having trouble with automated spammers and decided to implement a image verification script when posting comments. Now, after about a month or so, I can say the spammers went from 100+ a day down to zero.
Other Improvements
Today I rolled out a few improvements that now allow you to click on the image to see the whole posting including comments.
I’d love to hear your feedback if you have a chance to check it out.
Vince Collins
October 30, 2007 at 4:55 pm
I like the hover feature from the main page, but dislike extra clicks. If the description contains a link I’d like to be able to hover over the image, see the link, and then move over and click the link. Since the hovering layer moves around with the mouse, that’s not possible.
But if you just determined the best place to position the div based on the mouse, and then let it sit in that place until mouseout of the div (or mouseover of another image and/or a specific portion of the page, like the background) then I could hover over an image to pop up its large view and the details, click any links that look interesting, and then move on to other images.
October 30, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Hey Adam,
I like your suggestion! Thanks for the feedback. I’ll add it to my to-do list indeed!