How to make a Tag cloud app that post on a website?

Question

I want to make an app where the users can post messages that will be displayed on a website. The users would need to create a username and password to be able to post.

The app would be like a twitter, but only be able to post through the app and read the last few posts and not be able to write private messages.

The website would function like a huge cloud of thoughts where everyone could go and read what others have written. Once the post hit the cloud, they can't be deleted. Only me could delete posts.

All posts would have different color and font size, it would look like a huge tag cloud on the website.

How do I make an app and a website like this?

David H

Answer 1

The tutorial application for Google Application Engine is an unstyled version of what you describe. They'll even host it for you for free (up to a non-trivial level of usage).

The tag cloud creation is not so very hard but without knowing your preferred language it is hard to point you to helpful libraries (there are plenty out there).

Getting people to use it will be the hard part.

added in response to comment:

Good luck on your endeavor. I would be surprised if you weren't able to learn everything you need to know and have a working web app by the time school starts. I found a simple stand alone web cloud creation library that explains what it does and will run on GAE. So now even that part is in place for you.

I'm tempted to make some pathetic reference to the sorts of computing that I did prior to high school, but I expect that you probably have SD data cards have more computational power than I had available to me. Kids these days! ;)