conanite
01-26-2009, 10:53 AM
Hi everyone,
I've been working on a little image editor and icon library for a few months and the feedback I have from friends so far is pretty good. The site combines a big library of popular, open-source icons (fam-fam-fam, and the tango project, for example), with a simple, small icon editor that allows people tweak icons from the library or even draw new ones from scratch.
Contrary to the usual advice, it's very javascript-heavy, but there's no way around that for this kind of site unless I wanted to use flash or something equivalent.
I have some big questions:
- Is the editor usable, or way too complicated?
- Is the editor good enough for drawing icons?
- Is the help system easy to find or should I make it more obvious?
- Is it easy enough to find the icon you want?
- Some functions are accessed via CSS popups, but I hear that's really annoying. Is there a consensus on this subject?
Please take into consideration that it's strictly a pixel-oriented editor dedicated to drawing little, little icons, up to 32 x 32 pixels - although vector graphics are really cool, they're not really appropriate for drawing at this kind of scale.
Also, the editor doesn't work at all on any incarnation of internet explorer, it's only worth trying with firefox 3, opera, or safari. The major sticky point with IE is the fact that I use the "canvas" element, not supported by IE. I'm working on integrating google's excanvas library to fix this, but that's a story for another day.
The site's at http://iconfu.com/
I would really appreciate your feedback and I hope some of you might even find it useful.
shoot me, I'm ready ...
cheers -
I've been working on a little image editor and icon library for a few months and the feedback I have from friends so far is pretty good. The site combines a big library of popular, open-source icons (fam-fam-fam, and the tango project, for example), with a simple, small icon editor that allows people tweak icons from the library or even draw new ones from scratch.
Contrary to the usual advice, it's very javascript-heavy, but there's no way around that for this kind of site unless I wanted to use flash or something equivalent.
I have some big questions:
- Is the editor usable, or way too complicated?
- Is the editor good enough for drawing icons?
- Is the help system easy to find or should I make it more obvious?
- Is it easy enough to find the icon you want?
- Some functions are accessed via CSS popups, but I hear that's really annoying. Is there a consensus on this subject?
Please take into consideration that it's strictly a pixel-oriented editor dedicated to drawing little, little icons, up to 32 x 32 pixels - although vector graphics are really cool, they're not really appropriate for drawing at this kind of scale.
Also, the editor doesn't work at all on any incarnation of internet explorer, it's only worth trying with firefox 3, opera, or safari. The major sticky point with IE is the fact that I use the "canvas" element, not supported by IE. I'm working on integrating google's excanvas library to fix this, but that's a story for another day.
The site's at http://iconfu.com/
I would really appreciate your feedback and I hope some of you might even find it useful.
shoot me, I'm ready ...
cheers -