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Ravelry (Online Social Networking website Full Details)
Ravelry is a free social networking website, beta-launched in May 2007. It functions as an organizational tool for a variety of fiber arts including knitting, crocheting, spinning, and weaving. Members share projects, ideas, and their collection of yarn, fiber, and tools via various components.[1] As of January 2010, Ravelry had over 600,000 members worldwide. Similar Threads:
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Development
Husband and wife Casey and Jessica Forbes founded Ravelry in May 2007. Their idea was to create a web presence for all fiber artists.
Ravelry has been mentioned by Tim Bray as one "of the world’s more successful deployments of Ruby and Rails technologies."[5] [edit] Features   An example of the My Notebook page "Ravelry has become the Internet tool to help the typical needle-wielder navigate through the woolly wild."[6] Information in Ravelry is organized via a series of tabs. Some customization is available within the tabs: i.e., the ability to re-sort information contained in a tab, create sub-tabs, or change the level of detail displayed. The site was in beta through early 2010. New features and enhancements are still added frequently. Often these features and enhancements are driven by the community.
Organization First, Ravelry is an organizational tool for knitters and crocheters. It includes a project album, a yarn stash album/inventory, and a needle inventory sheet. These are all tools for personal organization.[8] Research Ravelry is also a yarn and pattern database and research tool. It consists of a searchable community-edited yarn and pattern database where users share information and project photos. The database was created by encouraging people to share their projects and information.[9] Social Networking The site has forums, groups, and friend-related features that give people ways to interact with other knitters and crocheters. Shop Ravelry has three sub-shops within it. These help to generate income to maintain the site. They include the Ravelry Mini-Mart which sells a small range of items such as t-shirts, bags, and stickers that have logos on them, a Marketplace where small adverts are displayed for a range of fiber arts related products and the Pattern Stores which sells PDF versions of patterns. A small portion of the sales from the Pattern Stores goes to Ravelry, 98.7%, goes to the designers. [10] Photo Support Photos can be added to project and stash pages by connecting to the user's own Flickr or Photobucket or Picasa account or by uploading a photo directly (although direct uploading is currently limited). See also
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