Weebly guys launch snaplayout.com

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/10/snaplayout-the-profile-editor-myspace-should-have-made/

by drm237 • 19 years ago

42 29 19 years ago

techcrunch.com

"The new, simple way to customize and control your myspace profile"

drusenko5• 19 years ago

haha, that was nasty... posted it before i could get to it :)

drm237• 19 years ago

sorry about that...amazing site though; you guys are impressive!

drusenko5• 19 years ago

oh, i meant nasty as in "kick ass", and thanks.

kul• 19 years ago

brill!

zach• 19 years ago

Ah, bringing designing power to the people. That's great.

What's with the shutdown speculation? I can't imagine they'd shut it down given that it's not a competing content site and they're bringing out an API, would they?

drusenko5• 19 years ago

One interesting thing to note (that wasn't mentioned in the article): The design is based on an SVG template that is modular & rasterized on the server to produce any color variation desired. We can also perform SVG layer-effects on raster images (Lighten, Darken, Screen, Multiply) -- which is how we get the patterns to match the background color, for example.

We'll be back-porting that feature to Weebly as well -- picture a web site template that is image-based yet still lets you choose any color combination desired.

dbrush• 19 years ago

Oh man, powerful stuff. Your website editor is starting to compete with my image editor : P

Many congratulations to you guys.

danielha• 19 years ago

Awesome stuff guys.

But you need to make it known the next time you're hanging with the Hammer.

Tichy2• 19 years ago

I thought a color on the web is just a triplet of bytes (RGB)?

OK, just kidding, but I have no idea what you have been talking about...

plusbryan3• 19 years ago

Putting MC Hammer into the demo vid was both surprising and ingenious. Great job guys!

create_account• 19 years ago

I'm not sure if that means the Weebly guys have come up in the world, or if Hammer has sunk to a new low...

Readmore• 19 years ago

Hahaha! How did that even happen? M.C.Hammer? Where did you find him?

steveplace• 19 years ago

techcrunch 40. He has a startup for online video battledancing or something.

dannyv4• 19 years ago

Thanks for the support guys!

Let's keep it up :-) http://digg.com/design/SnapLayout_launches_the_profile_edito...

kn0thing• 19 years ago

I digg!

dannyv4• 19 years ago

Thanks! We're getting close now - first page of upcoming in tech. yeaaah

rwebb• 19 years ago

dugg

blored• 19 years ago

This is good, real good.

andreyf• 19 years ago

Great idea, killer execution.

I definitely see this going places. Amazon job, guys :)

plusbryan3• 19 years ago

Yikes. Is this a worry? http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/09/myspace-platform-to-lau...

drusenko5• 19 years ago

not really. we see it as complimentary -- and we'll be using myspace's platform to generate ad revenue from profiles, eventually, anyway.

plusbryan3• 19 years ago

awesome

dannyv4• 19 years ago

Hammer's MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/mchammer

It's gonna get even pimper

letian• 19 years ago

Nice, make it a Weebspace

staunch• 19 years ago

Very nice. I would just love to see it generalized. An open way for any social site to use Weebly as their profile editor.

Tichy2• 19 years ago

I don't think it really works in my Browser (Firefox on Ubuntu 7.04). I couldn't drop the widgets, and there was no choice of corner styles.

nextmovetwo• 19 years ago

This is very slick what you have done! As opposed to most MySpace customization websites, I don't feel dirty while I'm using your system. Haha. Kudos to everyone involved!

Weebly guys launch snaplayout.com

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