If you’ve ever created a website before, you know how important it is to get opinions from as many people as possible on colors, layout, navigation, content, and everything else.
Even though it’s really easy to create a website, it’s really hard to make a great website. Anybody can download a template and have a flashy looking website in minutes, but then it’s not unique.
If you’re creating a new website for your business or you routinely create websites as part of your daily job, you might want to check out a cool web service that lets you get feedback on website design, content and code quickly and easily.
Notable is an online tool built for business-design teams to help create effective websites. Basically, it lets you capture screen shots of websites and then lets you annotate features such as copy, design, and even code that needs tweaking.
Currently, the service is in beta, but they will be open to the public soon. In any case, once you sign in, you can capture a webpage by either installing a Firefox plugin, uploading an image from your desktop or capturing a URL using their capture utility.
Once you capture a page, you can click the Add Notes button and begin adding annotations to the screenshot. Across the top, you’ll see three tabs: Screenshot, code and copywriting. You can add notes to any of these.
As you add notes, you’ll be able to see them by the addition of the number in a black circle. When you hover over the highlighted area like I did above, then you see the note that was added.
To add notes about the actual code, click on the Code tab and then select the code that you want to add annotations too. What’s cool is that it automatically picks up the CSS files and all JavaScript files when you capture a screenshot of a website.
When you click on Copywriting, you get just the text of the webpage and nothing else. All links, pictures, and images are removed. Here you can add notes about the actual content of the webpage.
If you have a large project that has lots of pages for the website, you can create a Workspace to help organize the project. Then you just capture more web pages like before, but now you can also add people so that they can collaborate on the feedback.
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