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Desktop Nexus is a wallpaper site with the vision of stepping over the boundaries of traditional wallpaper sharing… and I will go as far as saying that it is currently one of the most technologically advanced wallpaper galleries in the entire world.
Completely member oriented, anyone can upload wallpapers, then the community votes if they’re a high enough quality to be added to the galleries, or if they should be deleted forever… all driven through the “Pending Additions” categories. Heavily endowed with AJAX and RSS, meta-moderation, voting and tagging, it’s truly fresh in this industry.
For example, if someone uploads a 1024×768 wallpaper, Desktop Nexus will automatically resize and remaster that wallpaper for another visitor who requests it in say, 1600×1200. It then goes a step farther and will show an AJAX script to allow any user to instantly crop (interactive) or stretch the wallpaper to create a widescreen version for anyone who requests it… so essentially one wallpaper of any size is uploaded, and Desktop Nexus will make it available to anyone with any resolution… completely bypassing previous limitations of wallpaper sharing, standard aspect ratio or widescreen.
Now, let’s take a quick visual tour of the coolest parts of Desktop Nexus.
AJAX Wallpaper Uploads, plus the ability to upload ZIP files for Mass Uploads (upload dozens of wallpapers at a time!):
And after the wallpaper is uploaded, it undergoes a voting process where the community decides if it’s quality is good enough to be added to the galleries:
Wallpapers can be tagged with descriptive words to link similar ones together. AJAX technology helps suggest commonly used tags as you type.
Our tag clouds are a great way of quickly seeing what’s popular in each gallery.
Every member (quick, free signup) gets a My Desktop Nexus profile they can tweak and customize, allowing them to share everything from their hobbies to their favorite wallpapers.
I have big dreams for this site, and for nearly a year I’ve poured my heart into it, spending a week on a small detail most users would never even notice. I honestly believe this site could become the next YouTube, as to this day there is no household name for wallpaper sites. There is a dominate site in almost every industry, but wallpapers is 95% scattered small sites. Before when I wanted a wallpaper, I went digging through Google Images, sorting through the low quality and odd size images. Sure, Webshots did pretty well, but I believe they shot themselves in the foot with advertising in their downloadable client. We can do better. I want someone to be sitting in their chair and decide their desktop background is getting old, and for the first thought through their mind to be “Desktop Nexus”.
We’re still tweaking the site and adding new functionality all the time, so stay tuned. I’d also appreciate any feedback you have on Desktop Nexus. Thanks!
Go There -> Desktop Nexus Wallpapers
May 4th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
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May 18th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
[...] Mercedes Wallpapers Hey guys, got a few seconds to spare? I’ve been working on a website for over a year now, and I just launched it publicly this evening. It’s basically a new-age wallpaper site, and yes, there are quite a few Mercedes wallpapers. There is no dominate brand name in the wallpaper industry right now, but there is plenty of demand. Before this, I used to find my wallpapers by searching Google Images, sorting through the odd sizes and inaccurate images. This will hopefully end all that. Enough background chat. The site is Desktop Nexus: Desktop Nexus Wallpapers - Free Wallpapers and Backgrounds for your Computer It’s revolutionary. Imagine someone uploading a 1024×768 wallpaper, then someone requesting it in 1600×1200. The system will automatically resize and remaster the wallpaper, delivering it at the correct size. If someone requests a widescreen version of that same wallpaper, it uses AJAX to crop, stretch, resize, and remaster the image again, delivering a native widescreen version of that wallpaper. With Desktop Nexus, there is no more boundaries of who can and can’t download wallpapers because of their screen size, or the size uploaded… any wallpaper will now work on almost any screen. It supports tagging to connect similar wallpapers together. It allows ANYONE to upload wallpapers (even zip files for mass uploads), then uses member-moderation where the community chooses if the wallpapers are good enough to be added to the galleries. Right now it doesn’t have a lot of variety, but if you have a few minutes, feel free to upload any wallpapers you have to share with everyone else. :zoom: Again, the Mercedes wallpapers are here, but you can find more specific cars using tags, such as CLK63’s or SL55’s. There aren’t too many tags in the Mercedes gallery right now, but they’ll grow in time. Anyway, there’s a lot more to it, but I could go on for an hour and bore you to death. Check it out, and I’d really appreciate feedback, comments, or suggestions. Thanks! Also, you can see some highlights of the site here: Harry Maugans » Desktop Nexus Goes Live! [...]
June 13th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
SO how do I ‘get’ this? Is there a sign up place? I WANT it fersure. Cause I lovelovelove wallpaper! Oh, and what about screen savers? I love them too!
I want it now! Okay, I’ll wait to find out how…
Thanks for doing this! Now, it’s a onestopshoppingtrip!
Ciao!
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January 5th, 2008 at 5:55 am
That is something truely refreshing. The number of rubbish wallpapers I sifted through looking for something is unbelievable. You go from one site to the next and they all appear to have the same stock.
I for one will be heading straight over to have a look at what’s on offer. Thanks for taking the time to create something to fill this niche.
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