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Artblog labs a-poppin’
August 24, 2009 · 10 Comments
Hello campers, we are here to announce exciting news. We are experimenting with a new lab section for projects such as a gallery map with listing information that we hope will be useful to you. We will have 6 maps of the city, five of them by neighborhoods and one will be our current picks.
We need your help to make this work and to give us feedback (see link on labs page to give us feedback). If you have a listing, submit the information on the form (click on the “submit your listing” link on labs.theartblog.org page). It’s very easy. You can upload an image for your show, too.
We hope this will become a useful tool for artblog readers and galleries alike.
And stay tuned. We have other ideas percolating in our lab test tubes. And thanks to our lab white coats, Kelani, Beth and Howie, who are making all this possible.
Tags: artblog labs, map gallery guide, maps
Libby, Roberta,
I filled in all the fields, and about 3/4 were rejected with “errors.” Perhaps a bit of debugging to be done?
Also, a suggestion: allow us to login with a password, which will allow us to not have to repeat typing in show info, and which will cut down on people impersonating or playing pranks.
Great idea — hope it works! Brad
love this map idea – great addition to what you do
Hi Brad, can you be more specific about the errors? Also can you tell us what browser you’re using? Are you on a mac or pc? And thanks for your suggestions–we’ll pass them and all your questions on to our web guru and see if we can get this troubleshot quickly.
Thanks, Jennie!!!
Hi Brad,
I’m sorry you had trouble with the form, i’d like to get to the bottom of it, please send a description of the errors to us. The form will validate as you go, so it might be that you’ve entered some information in differently than the form was expecting.
If anyone else has troubles please let us know too!
As for the log-in, that is a great idea! We’re all hoping Maps will graduate from labs rather quickly, in which case we’ll work on a supped-up implementation that would have additional features.
We’re keeping a running wish-list of new features so please let us know what else you’d like to see to streamline the process as a contributor, or enhance the experience as a user.
I just submitted for Tiger Strikes Asteroid, from an old PC, and it worked fine; kudos! Great idea.
OK, this is a brilliant idea… something we actually need!
This is a great idea!!!! awesome!!!!
How your arts org can make online tools personal…
I’ve been absent from the gallery scene in Philadelphia for a while now, and that’s due in no small part to the emergence of galleries in pockets all over the city – a good thing, of course. But it’s hard……
Bravo!