How To Navigate

There are three ways to move yourself throughout the world: click to drag panning, the navigation joystick and teleporting. There are also "quick-link" buttons to bring you to common areas: your saved bookmarks and the list of public, pre-set "hub locations."

Once you've started moving around, you'll likely notice that you are also able to zoom in and out. Zooming in and zooming out allows you to see more or less of what's around, and focus on what people have created. This is especially useful for text-based objects.

You'll also notice user nametags floating around the whiteboard. Your cursor is your name tag on the map. Your mouse movement is updated in real-time, and moves exactly as your mouse does. You'll always know when you cross paths with another member who's online!

Pan Moving: click-to-drag on an empty part of the whiteboard to move. Be sure not to click on an object, or you'll start to move it instead of yourself. You can hold the SHIFT key while you click to drag to ignore objects to avoid this problem.

Joystick Moving: on desktop, you'll notice a button in the top left corner that says "NAVIGATION." Clicking this will open a menu that shows a ball inside a graph — the joystick. Click-and-hold this joystick, and start to drag it in the direction you want to move. The farther out, the faster you will travel.

Teleport Moving: in the same "NAVIGATION" panel, you'll notice a box for both the x and the y axis, as well as a green "Teleport!" button. This allows you to type the x and y axis of where you want to go, and quickly arrive there by clicking the teleport button! Texting and teleporting is not permitted!

Your Profile

Your profile is shown in two places on The Node World: in a small, meta-data type card on the map, and the profile tab in the social panel. To set your "profile card coordinates," use the button under the "Bookmarks" top navigation link. Your profile card must be at least 25,000x and 25,000y to avoid profile clutter near 0x 0y.

You have no time limit, but once you do place your card, it becomes the permanent home. Profile cards are not objects that can be moved without staff intervention, so please take your time in deciding where you want to place it. This will display a small profile card on the map. When clicked, opens the social panel profile view.

Editing: to edit your profile, use the account menu in the top navigation and click the "Edit Profile" button. The standard profile layout comes with basic information as well as three photos. If you are more adventurous, you may use the code editor to write an HTML5, CSS and inline JavaScript template.

World Objects

"Objects" are the items you place around the map for other people to see and interact with. When you create an object, you are the "owner," and you are the only person who can lock it, unlock it or delete it. If you decide to leave your object unlocked, anybody can move it to another area or resize it, however, cannot delete it.

To create a new object for the map, use the "Create" button located in the top navigation area. This menu will allow you to upload a video, create a photo by URL or upload, post a doodle, create an HTML page/widget, add a textnote, or post a blog entry. All of these objects are subject to the Community Rules & Guidelines.

Photos: photos can be created by uploading or using a URL to a photo hosted elsewhere. They can be resized by right clicking once placed and using the free transform stretch tools. Holding SHIFT while dragging a corner will keep the photo ratio constrained. The red glowing bubble is a rotation handle.

Doodles: doodles can be created using the drawing pad and all of it's tools: text, shapes, lines, brushes and a full color picker. Your doodle will be transparent against the light blue whiteboard. If you'd like a background, use the fill bucket to create a background for bright colors to be vibrant and visible!

Literature: these are full-length blog entries which show only meta-data on the map object. The literature portal comes equipped with an entire rich editor system for font style, font colors and heading tags H1-H5, as well as an entire library system to help manage saved drafts or editing published pieces.

Privacy & Terms

When I created this little world, I fell in love with the idea of ad-free and privacy focused, and that's what I focused on with each area inside of the world. There are zero ads, there is minimal information collected, and nothing is shared with or sold to third parties for any form of monetization.

The Node World (theworldnode.com and theworldnode.net) are both owned and operated by only myself, Burke I. Zizzi, under ZiZZiSTUDiO Productions. The entirety of this application was built only by me with AI-assistance. There is no AI integrated into ZiZZiSTUDiO, TheWorldNode.com, or TheWorldNode.Net.

Everything is in-house, keeping your data private and secure. We collect basic information about you upon creating an account, small technical information about your device and connection, and absolutely nothing that can be used to personally identify you in any way, shape, or form.

— Your IP Address: whether you are logged in as a guest, or you have an account, your IP address is recorded for security purposes. Please note that your IP address is public anywhere you go on the web and cannot be used to identify you.

— Email Address: if you decide to create an account, we ask you to provide us with an email to verify you are not a robot. Email updates may be sent to you in the future, which will provide an "Unsubscribe" button to stop receiving.

— Public Name: if you decide to create an account, we will ask for a public display name, your "username." This will be displayed publicly within various parts of The Node World, as well as TheNodeWorld.Net should you create content.