Squirl beta, a site for collectors.

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I'd like to announce the launch of Squirl, a rails-built site for collectors. Squirl lets you store and share the things you collect, and meet other like-minded collectors. We have ~30 predefined templates for things like coins, stamps, postcards, and beanie babies, but it's also a fun tool for making lists of things like books, movies and music.

We're fully buzzword compliant, right down to the vowel-less-ends-in-r name, but we've tried hard to make it all in the service of the user. Developing the site has been a blast, in no small part because of the help and support from this list.

If you're a collector, a list maker, or just want to check it out, it's at:

Please register and give it a whirl (it's free) -- we'd be grateful for any feedback. I'll do my best to address any questions or issues.

Regards, John McGrath john@squirl.info

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John,

Very cool site. I really like the look and feel.

Might I ask what you used for the frontend design in terms of tools?

Thanks! Jake

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Thanks! Front end was done by my friend and business partner Steve.

Our process is we talk over the features we want on a given template, he mocks it up in Photoshop, and after we decide on a final design he slices out the necessary graphics and I recreate the page in .rhtml templates using html and css.

So for front end tools it's all Photoshop and hand written html/css.