Message in the forest
Woman's site brings romance to the Web
Brighton-based, Post-It-In-Pixels, LLC, has launched a new graphics-intense website that will leave your loving words in cyberspace forever.
Created as a fanciful, family-oriented website, messageintheforest.com provides families and friends a unique way to permanently post messages of love, honor, friendship, and tribute. Charlene Kull, founder, believes her company has created something truly beautiful.
"Just as young lovers used to carve initials in a tree, we’ve created a permanent place for caring people to 'carve' announcements, photos, tributes and messages for someone important in their lives.”
The home page depicts a fanciful forest with stately trees. Each tree has a unique theme for messages: Pet Postings, Love Notes, Friends, Family, Tributes, Weddings, Proposals, Celebrations and In Memoriam. Visitors select a tree, click on it, and scroll over the trunk to see the various messages pop up.
One tree is dedicated to weddings with the idea that wedding and honeymoon photo albums can be permanently posted on-line. Romantic toasts and tributes, and even scrapbooks can be scanned and saved as pdfs on the site.
“The ‘Proposal Tree’ is just waiting for some romantic person to post a marriage proposal,” says Kull. “We’re very proud of our artwork and the total look of the site. The forest is a beautiful oasis of love and friendship, in contrast to the 'noisy' cluttered world of a typical website.
Those who post on the site can also get creative themselves, she adds. There are several formats from which to choose for posting messages, and participants can even create and post their own attractive pdfs with text, photos and graphics. "They can also post a link to their own blogs or websites," Krull says.
Participants or “posters” are offered a choice of message size and format. Short and long carvings (with or without photos) are now FREE to post. Only the pdfs, which can be any length, cost a nominal fee of $8.50 to post. Short messages can also be linked to long messages, with or without photos, that are placed in specially-designed, fanciful templates.
Those who choose to post multiple photos and very long messages can create and post pdfs of their own creation. After the message is posted, the link to the message and an announcement letter is e-mailed to whomever the poster chooses. The hidden messages are marked on each tree trunk with icons that appear when the “HINT” button is clicked.
The “Links” page features a different illustration – a gnarly apple tree in a colorful orchard, with pop-up links to sponsoring websites. Kull says the great success with sponsors and affiliates has enabled the company to provide free postings to customers.
"The sponsor page has so many unique products and great discounts, that purchases though these links provide our financial backing," Krull says.
The orchard also features a “secret” gate that provides access to the “Giving Grove,” a place for qualified charities to post links to their websites at no cost. Kull concludes, “This site is a marriage of imagination, technology and human sentiment. Messageintheforest.com is something unique for lovers, brides, family, and friends - a fun space to visit as well as to post on. ”
Brighton, Michigan-based Post-It-In-Pixels, LLC, is a limited liability corporation that seeks to create innovative websites that are graphics-intense, user-generated content spaces where participants obtain pixel space to post text and images. Messageintheforest.com is the corporation’s first site, a family-oriented, emotive space where people post messages of permanent value.
