Primarywall Pro accounts are now available!

Good news everyone! Our amazingly popular service PrimaryWall now has pro accounts available so you can extend functionality and provide a personalized experience! So what’s new?

Schools can now register their own subdomain for PrimaryWall for example http://stjohns.primarywall.com.

Change font

We have provided 16 beautiful fonts, when you change a font it instantly changes for everyone else too!

Password protect walls

By default pro accounts are only accessible by Wall owners, the owner can then set a password so pupils can access a specific wall.

Change background

Safe Search have provided us with 8 topical backgrounds that you can apply, there is an also a blank background so you can get more a focus on the notes. When you change the background it automatically updates on everyone else’s wall.

Easy wall embed

Easy embed of walls means you can keep your kids in your safe blog/learning platform environment while still using PrimaryWall. This works with an iframe embed code which is supported by all good platforms. Here are some instructions on how to embed PrimaryWall on PrimaryBlogger

Also…

Save walls for longer than 30 days

Phone support

First 6 months are free then only £30 per year, Sign up now

How to embed PrimaryWall in PrimaryBlogger

1. Login to your PrimaryWall pro account wall
2. Click Share
3. Select the embed code and right click, copy.
4. Goto PrimaryBlogger and login
5. Create a new post.
6. Click HTML [top right of edit box]
7. Right click in the edit box and click Paste.
8. Click Publish.

Note: Make sure your Security options are set correctly.
Note: You can adjust the width/height so it looks great in your blog. Below is an example:

PrimaryWall is available for FREE download!

Want to host PrimaryWall in your school for your pupils/teachers and/or customize the look & feel? Good news! We open sourced the project so you can go ahead and download it now!

We open soured PrimaryWall as part of our ongoing commitment to Open source software and community engagement/control over technology. We will still be providing PrimaryWall.com as that is where we will be developing new features.

Why your school infrastructure matters more today than it did yesterday

With the launch of PrimaryWall we noticed that we have a number of schools getting periodic dropped connections, this is due to schools infrastructures “dropping packets”.  I was dealing with a school a few months ago who had a technical support provider who promised them that dropping ~5% of packets wouldn’t affect their performance..  This may of been true for their current usage but really-real time web apps such as PrimaryWall and PrimaryPad require that your infrastructure is correctly configured, any packet loss is a potential future failure and should be avoided.  So how can you see if your infrastructure is up to par?

We made a simple heartbeat tool so you can test this yourself.  Enjoy!