Im sorry...but I, being a designer who has done both consulting and full-time work and 'likes to think' he tries to solve the customer's problem first and foremost, find this rate of $300-500/hr extremely high. Has anyone else heard of numbers like this being made, be that full-time or consulting?
move upmarket. A small dotcom may now be able to pay $300/hr but when you're setting up an independently regulated financial utopia (See the independent finance centre of the americas) a few shekels for design is nothing.
I have no doubt sites like national geographics website cost over a million. Just like a good iphone app costs $200K+ good design costs, and is exceedingly rare.
Yeah I think this point has a parallel in #6 referring to placing important content on the left of a web page...
"...for sites that are traditionally read from left to right, placing important design components at the left is a good idea; vice versa for sites whose language is read from right to left."
Number 6 had me imagining an extreme test case. All the content of a page is in a narrow vertical column over at the right of a page. Show me a heatmap of that test page with real users still spending most all of their time looking at the big blank space at the left and... well I'll eat one of these pencils on my desk I guess, as I have no hat I wish to part with.
When we first started working on slinkset we played tennis probably every other day. Even when we were in Boston for YC. Because of the weather we haven't played too much lately...but we'll be starting up shortly im sure. So if you're in SF, let's get a match going.
If you're asking about what happens when you mouse over it...i'll leave that for brett to explain.
Yeah, sorry if we were a bit quiet on the home front. We've tried to do a good job of keeping up on the help requests though. As for features, we've been knocking some out here and there, but as you can see from the Virgin America site...categories are alive and kicking. Look for them to be released to the public real soon.
Hey all, so "anonymous" is only days away (possibly this Monday). We're not planning on releasing the feature to the general public until the 16th. But if you'd like to be one the "special" users to test it out early please email us and we'll set you up. Thanks.
As I wrote in the feature requests slinkset, I really need the opposite functionality: for all links/comments to be viewable by everyone, but editable only by invited users. The lack of this functionality is really limiting the userbase growth of one of my slinkset sites.
You can set your site to "Editorial" mode which can be found on the "Settings" tab and then go to the "Users" tab and set the users that you want as "Editors". So the only thing missing is having it so other users don't have the ability to comment or vote?
Out of curiosity what is the reason for allowing users to view but not participate in any way?
> So the only thing missing is having it so other users don't have the ability to comment or vote?
Exactly.
>Out of curiosity what is the reason for allowing users to view but not participate in any way?
Certain subcultures on the internet have very... interesting troll types, and what we're doing on one of the sites is essentially starting over on a forum that's been tainted by some of these trolls. Thus the lockdown on any write-participation. On the other hand, we want to be transparent about what we discuss, and attract the members in the community who are not the trolls. (We are envisioning a registration process where new users tell about their names IRL to discourage trollish behavior.) Thus the read-only availability to anyone who comes by. Does that make sense?
Yes, having the problem with trolls is obviously understood, this is why we give you the admin the ability to "ban" a user, kill comments/submissions, as well as set any other user as an admin to police the system as well. Granted this could be time consuming for some, which is where I can see your use-case coming into play (which we will look into).
My only other question is, if "good users" are coming to your site but now have no way of participating (commenting/submitting/voting), how are they able to prove themselves and get an "invite" to participate?
Thanks for using slinkset for this. Yet another creative application of our service. We would really love to help get JustHackIt to take off for you. Please feel free to contact me if you have any thoughts or ideas.
