Hello! We have some very exciting news for you! We have collected a lot of feedback from our users about our website and are pleased to announce that we have completely redesigned it. We listened to your suggestions, complaints, and tips, and our mad scientists went to work…
Why Redesign?
- Aesthetics
- In short, the old site was just not very pleasing to the eye. Our users and even us just didn’t have that warm fuzzy feeling when we landed on any of our pages (except for the map page which was redesigned a while back). We studied the effects of an aesthetically pleasing design from the redesign of our iPhone App during the past year and we knew it was a no-brainer. Users were simply happier and more willing to use GeoGraffiti if it looked, for lack of a better word, pretty. We want you to know that we take design very seriously and welcome every suggestion you may have.
- The Social Web
- The web as we know it is advancing at an astronomical rate. Innovative minds across the world have created many great and popular products such as Facebook and Twitter. Most of our users are active on these social networks so we wanted to provide them with a way to share our site with the world. All pages on our site now include Share buttons to share to all social media services. We have also Facebook OpenGraph-enabled every page and Voice Mark on our site. You know that “Like” button you’ve been seeing on every site across the web that lets you “like” something on Facebook? Yup… it’s now included on every page AND on every Voice Mark you listen to on our Voice Mark Map Did you just listen to a Voice Mark that you liked and want to share with your friends on Facebook, Twitter, etc? Simple!
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You now "Like" stuff on GeoGraffiti
You can play GeoGraffiti Voice Marks within Facebook
OpenGraph Facebook Sharing of Voice Marks on Facebook
"Like" a Voice Mark on Facebook
Share Voice Marks on Social Networks
- Social Experience on our site
- So we have our Like buttons and Share buttons in place ready for you to click on, but what about OUR site itself? Users were telling us that they didn’t feel like the landing page was very social and that there wasn’t a way for them to find interesting content upon landing on the site. We have the beginnings of a more socially interactive site in place now! From our landing page, you can now observe recent Voice Marks that have been created by users on GeoGraffiti.
Recent Voice Marks Widget
You can also look at recent users that have joined the GeoGraffiti community.
Recent Users Widget
We have also included Facebook social plugins. There’s the ever-popular like-box so you can see our Facebook page feed right from our site. Another more interesting plugin we have enabled is the Facebook recommendations plugin. This will take into account what your network of friends have shared about GeoGraffiti and make personalized recommendations for you on our page. We think that is pretty nifty and will really help personalize your GeoGraffiti experience for you.
Facebook/GeoGraffiti Personalized Recommendations
We have created a Twitter timeline widget so you can see a few recent mentions of GeoGraffiti on Twitter. It’s Twitter @Anywhere enabled so you can hover over the user names who mentioned us and view more info on them and/or follow them if you want.
Twitter Widget
Follow Twitter Users Directly from GeoGraffiti
You can even search directly from our landing page now! Look at that slick looking search bubble! Just type in what you are looking for (e.g. Food) and where you are looking for it (e.g. los angeles, ca). [HINT:You can type in names of cities, states, zip codes, intersections]
Search from main page
This is just the beginning so we hope you enjoy what we have put together so far.
- So we have our Like buttons and Share buttons in place ready for you to click on, but what about OUR site itself? Users were telling us that they didn’t feel like the landing page was very social and that there wasn’t a way for them to find interesting content upon landing on the site. We have the beginnings of a more socially interactive site in place now! From our landing page, you can now observe recent Voice Marks that have been created by users on GeoGraffiti.
- Setting up for exciting new upcoming features
- We have many new features in the works that we are working hard to complete. A lot of these do involve social aspects of the site and better serving our users so we HAD come up with a nicer design that will work with these features. You can be the first to know about these features by signing up for our newsletter here.
In Conclusion
We want to thank our users and friends who provided the suggestions for the redesign. There is no way we could have done this without your candid feedback. As always, we want your continued feedback so please let us know what you think at any time by using Contacting Us Here. Remember to sign up for our newsletter to stay up-to-date on our latest and greatest features. You can sign up for our newsletter here. So, go check out the site already at http://www.voicemark.com/ and let us know what you think.
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