Caedes is an Internet community of artists, designers, and photographers who share their work through the medium of computer wallpaper

Computer wallpaper

Wallpaper is an image used as a background of a graphical user interface on a computer screen or mobile communications device. On a computer it is usually for the desktop, while for a mobile phone it is usually the background for the 'home' or 'idle' screen...

s. Visitors can browse the galleries of images, and use images that have been posted on the website as desktop backgrounds. After registering (by choosing a screenname and password

Password

A password is a secret word or string of characters that is used for authentication, to prove identity or gain access to a resource . The password should be kept secret from those not allowed access....

, and supplying an e-mail address

E-mail address

An email address identifies an email box to which email messages are delivered. An example format of an email address is lewis@example.net which is read as lewis at example dot net...

), users can comment on each other's work and submit their own work.

Image Upload

The main objective of this forum is for authors to share their own original images. Images are only accepted if the submitter is the original copyright owner, or if the image is in the public domain

Public domain

Works are in the public domain if the intellectual property rights have expired, if the intellectual property rights are forfeited, or if they are not covered by intellectual property rights at all...

. Members retain all copyrights to their images.

Ranks

Caedes has its own leadership hierarchy based on the Roman Senate

Roman Senate

The Senate of the Roman Republic was a political institution in the ancient Roman Republic, however, it was not an elected body, but one whose members were appointed by the consuls, and later by the censors. After a magistrate served his term in office, it usually was followed with automatic...

structure.

• Praetor Maximus - Site Administrator
• Consuls - Forum Moderators
• Praetori - Image Moderators
• Aediles - Lowest ranking members of the Caedes Senate who maintain order
• Cadre - Users who donate $3 a month
• Artists - Users who have uploaded at least one image
• Members - Users who have not uploaded any images

Voting

Voting on images is considered an essential part of being in the community. Users rate an image on a scale of 0 to 10. A 'C-index' is updated for images every 24 hours, as long as at least 10 votes have been cast. The c-index is mostly based on the average of all the votes for the image. In order to receive votes, artists must vote on 10 images for each image they post.

Awards

• PC Magazine named Caedes in its top 101 Web Sites in its October, 2005 issue.