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| Tagit! | ||
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| Author(s): | Henry Harvey |  |
| Instructor: | Sung, Christopher | |
| Class: | Dynamic Web Development | |
| URL: | http://itp.nyu.edu/~hbh222/cgi-bin/tagit.pl | |
| Documents: | tagit(JPEG) | |
| Keywords: | web, message board, message, tagit | |
| Tagit is a graphical web-based message board system that allows users to utilize dynamic positioning to navigate more effectively than the traditional message board | ||
| The vast majority of web-based message boards are linear affairs. Messages are posted one after the other in chronological (or reverse chronological) order. This layout of information is tiresome and unoriginal. Tagit allows users to post messages and reply to messages dynamically, meaning the messages are aligned in space as the user chooses. Replies to messages are "tagged" to the position of the original messages. Relationships between messages can be immediately grasped. Since the structure of the message board can become extremely complex and crowded, tagit allows for a kind of dynamic browsing of the messages. As the user mouses over a particular message, the messages reallign themselves to bring into focus only that message and relevant replies. In addition, Tagit allows for customization of posts by allowing users to choose different color backgrounds, graphics and colors for their messages. These choices are persistent and allow the user to develop a particular look and identity for their posts. Tagit is different from other message boards because it creates a kind of living semantic map. As opposed to a traditional linear message board, Tagit takes on a living, organic quality. Users can immediately see which posts are most popular and which posts are "dead." Tagit also allows users to "prune" the interface in order to see posts only by a particular person (or by themselves). In this way the role of the individual in a virtual community is revealed. | ||
| Background: | This is basically a reaction to most message boards or blogs which are very boring in the way they are laid out | |
| Audience: | Anyone who likes to communicate as part of a web community. | |
| User Scenario: | A user reads various posts and clicks on on an existing post to create a reply or clicks on a button to start a new post. Words that are matching in the post and reply are highlighted to show a greater context. | |
| Technical System Description: | The application runs on a standard web browser. The user is meant to play with the system and hopefully add something intelligent or interesting. | |
| Project References, Research and Literature: | I don't really have any references--other than the myriad of boring message boards out there! | |
| Conclusions: | I learned a great deal about web design, perl, javascript and flash. | |