Edicy at LeWeb finals! November 16
We are very exited to announce that Edicy has been selected for Le Web 2008 Startup Competition. LeWeb is the biggest and most talked about startup event in Europe. Just a selected handful of startups around the world were offered this opportunity. It's a remarkable milestone for us and we truly appreciate the positive attention we've received in connection with that.
Release notes for November 11th, 2008 — Domain registration November 11
Today we are very proud to announce the release one of the most important new features in the last weeks: domain registration.
Release notes for October 30th, 2008 — Download your site October 30
Although Edicy is an all-in-one package including both web editor and hosting, we now also offer downloading your site to publish it anywhere you want - it could be another hosting company, your own private server or maybe you just want to have a personal back-up of your site.
Edicy designs around the world October 28
Since all our designs carry the names of cities around the world, it was a pretty logical step to place them all on a map. Just for fun. Feel free to find yours or come back anytime to find out whether your hometown has already made it on a Edicy's world map:
Release notes for October 27th, 2008 — Improved payments October 27
As of today, there are a total of three different payment methods supported by Edicy. You can upgrade to Edicy Pro by paying with PayPal, using money transfer or your credit card.
Release notes for October 19th, 2008 — Publishing October 20
With the new release of Edicy you have advanced control over your publishing process — different pages on your site will still be autosaved but only you can decide when they will be published to the public to be seen and visited by everyone.
Edicy now with more power! October 19
First, i'd like to thank you all for your patience who were waiting this sunday morning while we upgraded our server infrastructure. This is a major enhancement in terms of service quality and system response time. It is also a prerequisite for delivering new features to Edicy even more quickly than ever before.
Joonathan Mägi joins Edicy October 18
Joonathan Mägi joins Edicy as the user interface development lead. He has already started to improve Edicy's look and feel and we are very excited to have him on board.
Postcards from our office vol. 4 - Drawing Edicy October 17
You might have noticed that every week our team releases another set of new features and bugfixes based largely on your requests, thoughts and feedback (so keep them coming!). Often new features go from sketch on the paper to finished products in just under a week or two.
Release notes for October 10th, 2008 — External media October 12
A selection of remarkable sites built on Edicy October 05
Last week we surfed around in our clientbase, bookmarking the best sites our users have built. Since we launched our service a couple of months ago, quite many companies, societies and common people like you and me have done a remarkable job with it. Out of all those sites, we have picked a small selection for you to see: the featured sites built on Edicy.
Release notes for September 30th, 2008 — Sign in made easy October 01
The latest update brought a long-requested feature to Edicy users - global sign in. Now you can easily sign in to your account at www.edicy.com, which takes you to the last site you edited.
Release notes for September 23rd, 2008 -- major improvements this week September 24
Release notes for September 17th, 2008 September 17
As the number of new Edicy users is growing rapidly, hour after hour, we get a lot of useful feedback from all of you. Thank you, we appreciate it!
Release Notes for September 9th, 2008 – German language added and page optimization improvements. September 10
This week we’ve added the ability to add specific keywords and tags to each page so that search engines can find your content a little easier, this is a feature that has been requested a number of times already.
Martti Ilves takes over Edicy Quality Assurance team September 10
I'm happy to introduce our new team member, Martti Ilves, who is joining Edicy this week. Martti is taking the role of Quality Assurance Lead. He'll be in charge of making sure our service is updated smoothly. All new features are tested and tried out by his team before releasing them into the wild.
Edicy featured in Estonia’s top business newspaper September 09
In today’s print issue of Aripäev, Estonia’s largest business paper, there is a full-page article about Edicy.
Welcome aboard Tanel Jakobsoo! September 04
This week the Edicy team grows a little bigger as Tanel Jakobsoo is
joining us. Tanel is going to be taking up the task of testing and
making sure that problem's with Edicy are found and fixed quickly.
Release Notes for September 2nd, 2008 – Cross page content and lot's of fixes. September 03
After last weeks launch of Edicy Pro we are back, hard at work at adding features and fixing a number of bugs that have popped up in the past few days. We are also continually working to improve the usability of Edicy and Edicy Pro.
Hæ Ísland - Edicy is now available in Icelandic! August 29
Today we released Edicy in Icelandic, which is now the sixth language which Edicy is available in.
Edicy Pro for business users takes off August 28
With Edicy Pro, you can publish your site built with Edicy to any web address. There are no limits, both international (www.myname.com) or local (www.myname.de or .fr / .cn / .co.uk etc) addresses are welcome. Free users remain on edicypages.com style addresses.
Release Notes for August 26, 2008 – Edicy Pro and more. August 27
This week we’ve released a feature that is specifically designed for small business and users that really want to customize their sites. We’re launching Edicy Pro so that you can add a personal web address to your site!
Release notes for August 20th, 2008 - Create your own custom design August 20
This was another exciting week for us at Edicy. We’ve added tools to better help you customize your site, in particular the ability to add your own custom design.
Starman: first publicly listed company to use Edicy August 18
Edicy’s focus is on small businesses. Everything is ready and waiting to be launched. But you won't grow out of Edicy as your company grows since Edicy is suited perfectly for large and small companies alike. Today we helped Starman, a telecom company listed on the Estonian stock exchange, launch it's website which is running on Edicy.
Release Notes for August 12th, 2008 August 13
Along with launching Chinese versions of Edicy and our website this week we also made some additional improvements.
Edicy is now available in Chinese! August 11
Shortly after we launched into public beta we noticed that we were attracting a lot of new users from China. Having more internet users than any other country, this wasn't surprising at all.
Release Notes for August 5th, 2008 – More designs and directing your domain name to Edicy. August 06
One of the common questions we get is how you can point your own personal domain name which you’ve previously registered to Edicy. This feature is now available and I’ll explain the steps required to do this.
Postcards from our office vol. 3 - Edicy release party August 05
Having released Edicy to the wild last week, we took time to celebrate with a release party for our friends, families and everyone else involved in building the simplest web-editor. For those of you, who couldn't make it, here's a postcard from the party:
Priit Haamer – Co-founder and Chief Developer. August 01
I’d like to take a few minutes to introduce Priit Haamer to those of you who don’t yet know him. Priit is one of Fraktal’s co-founders and chief developer of Edicy.
Edicy reaches Public Beta July 31
Finally we have really taken off, we are public, we are out in the wild. The last week has been a real rush. I'm writing these lines after a crazy long night of fixing and tweaking. Oh, we are satisfied, even though it's just the start and so much more is still to be developed.
Tõnu Runnel – Co-founder, CEO and head of design July 29
Tõnu has been here since Day 1 but I still think it’s a good idea to make a formal introduction. Tõnu is Fraktal’s co-founder, CEO and chief design enthusiast. He’s responsible for making sure everything runs smoothly around here and that life at Fraktal keeps going.
New website, new blog, new look July 24
As you can see we’ve updated our website! Edicy.com was getting a little outdated and in preparation for our eventual launch we decided to freshen it up a bit. Naturally it was easy to do since the entire site is running Edicy.
Release notes for July 22nd, 2008 – New website and more updates July 24
Along with our new Edicy.com website there are a lot of the changes this week we hope will improve usability and make first time use a lot easier.
More introductions – Say hello to Dima, our bug killer July 21
Continuing with the introductions of the Edicy team members this week, I’d like to take a few minutes and introduce Dmitri Smirnov or as he likes to be known, Dima.
Release notes for July 17th, 2008 – Feedback, lot’s of feedback July 17
Last week we opened Edicy up to some new users in order to get feedback
and I can happily say that we got a lot of it. The feedback opened our
eyes a bit to some of the things that we can improve on and we’ve taken
it all in and are working hard to make Edicy even better.
Edicy opens up (a little) July 15
Last week we emailed everyone who had requested an early look at Edicy and sent them a invitation to create an account. The response we got was very positive and we’d like to expand on that preview therefore we’re inviting anyone to come and try it out.
Service downtime report July 12
Today our servers had a blackout for several hours. While switching between normal and generator power, power was lost in part of the server room. Now we're fully recovered and back online. We sincerely apologize and thank you for your patience!
Say Hello to Markus Paks! July 10
As Tõnu mentioned last week we want to introduce the Fraktal team to everyone so that we’re not an anonymous bunch of programmers behind a screen. The latest hire that we’d like to welcome to the team is Markus Paks who joined us a couple of weeks back.
Release Notes for July 8th, 2008 - More features, more users July 09
This week we’ve added a couple of important new features and a number of bug fixes, Edicy gets a little closer each week to what we’ve envisioned.
How to get hired (and how not to) July 07
Let me let you in on a big secret. Fraktal is hiring. Ok, that's not a real secret. The secret is how to get hired.
Welcome on board, Andres Sehr! July 02
Some new faces have appeared in the Fraktal office recently and we haven’t taken the time to formally introduced them. We should have a Team page up and running shortly so you can get an idea of everyone behind Edicy and we’ll post more detailed bios of everyone at Fraktal here on our blog, but in the meantime please give a warm welcome to Andres Sehr who recently joined Fraktal.
Release Notes July 2nd, 2008 - All hands on deck July 02
After having a few days off last week we're back to work at full speed. We're getting real close to public beta but we still have a couple of big changes we want to get done before we take off the wrapping and allow others to test it out.
Release notes for June 25th – Holiday edition June 27
This past Monday and Tuesday were public holidays in Estonia,
midsummer’ (Jaanipäev in Estonian) is the arguably the most important
holiday here and many people schedule vacations to coincide with it so
they can extend their merriment for the rest of the week.
Sabbath Law June 24
If you're frequent reader at our blog, then you might have noticed that we're just a little bit Apple fanboys. But this is not a case at the moment. We all should know by now, there is a next version of OS X coming. Now new features you might say? I'd say Great!
Fraktal is hiring! June 19
Very soon Edicy will be ready for the wider public, this means that we have a lot of challenging new tasks and the need to expand our team. So we’ve gone ahead and added many new open job positions this week. Place of work can be either Tartu, Tallinn or the comfort of your own home.
Edicy continues to take shape June 17
As we continue to develop Edicy and ready it for the public we thought we’d start sharing with you some of the changes we make each week.
Release notes for June 10, 2008 June 10
This weeks release includes:
Even a monkey could do it? Right? June 05
While the officials have yet to hand out the permit to test Edicy on animals, we have to settle with designers. Therefore I put my mouse away, blew dust off my keyboard and tested how easy it is to make a simple site run on Edicy without any help from our developers team - and boy were the results compelling!
Release Notes for June 3rd - Multi-lingual support now added. June 03
Already June, where does the time go?
Why would anyone want to ride a crowded bus? May 26
Since the web2.0 hype was born and since Apple was saved by Steve, developers have started to acknowledge the presence of design. Web is full of nice user interfaces in front of thousands of useful apps. The widget manufacturer with the most well designed toys is the the cream of the crop on the consumer market. Design matters, it seems. Developers are slowly understanding, that design is the other part of their everyday work. "Okay, let it be," a developer thinks... and works on to become an even better backend master.
Release notes for May 21, 2008 – Blog tool improvements. May 21
This week there are a number of additions to our blogging platform.
Release quickly even if it's big May 15
Today, a major facelift to the Estonian largest newspaper, SL Õhtuleht was released. The whole process from start to finish took just a little more than one month. We designed and coded it with the hands-on-method — instead of long months of analyzing and planning, we started at day one of the recieving of the assignment.
Screenery-greenery May 14
Earlier today, I was checking out a pretty neat application called Web2 Delight. It's an app that brings best of the web 2.0 goodness right onto your desktop. But that's not the thing i wanted to share with you (no-no, you should still check out the app for sure). It's something else - it's when you open up a .dmg file for the app:
Release notes for May 13, 2008 May 13
This week' changes and additions to Edicy.
Blodcasting with Edicy May 11
After implementing the missing piece of our blogging system, the RSS-output, I didn't want to stop there and decided to have a bit of fun. I took an extra 15 minutes to create a simple proof of concept for audio-podcast from our otherwise so text-and-images based blog.
Postcards from our office vol. 2 May 08
Surprisingly, the world is not only lacking of simple web-editors but also good furniture. After a long and fruitless search we finally hired young and talented Stella to make custom-sized bean bag chairs to fill up our conference lounge/room/pod. After days of searching for the right material, sewing the patches together and filling 'em up they're finally ready and boy are we happy and satisfied!
Blogging simplified May 08
Actually, we didn't even think about integrating any popular blog engine with Edicy. It was clear enough — none of those we had tried so far, had fit into our concept of seamless editing. So, the long line of different approaches to blogging has grown by one unit again.
Fraktal switches to Edicy April 29
The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot, they say. Till today Fraktal's site was based on plain html even though we have already quite a load of test clients trying out our “shoes” — Edicy web-editor. The tide has turned and now Edicy's main functionality is stable and usable enough to be used as the engine behind most of the SMB websites.
Updates on Edicy April 17
Today, we released an update of Edicy into the wild. It combines lot of bugfixes and refinements with some more complicated and more fundamental changes in backend system we’ve done during the last couple of weeks. I’m glad to say that this release brings us a huge step forward to public beta.
Postcards from our office April 17
Most of you have probably never been to our office – the small hive in the historic city centre of Tartu . Chances are, that most of you never will (but if you can, feel free to drop by!). Priit already gave you a short overview of how we organize our work.
Release notes for Apr 15th - A first peak for a select few. April 15
We continue to work on Edicy and we’re getting close to the point where
we’re willing to show some very close friends and family what we’ve
been working on.
A fresh way to log in April 10
Instead of creating a login screen as a big empty canvas with a handful of boxes in the center of it, we found a more attractive way to authenticate users in Edicy. Basically, for logging in you only need those boxes – one for your mail address and another for the password to identify you. Then a checkbox to remember your face, a button for maintaining friendship with the oldschool where’s-my-submit-button-users and, of course the “i remember nothing” link for resetting one’s password.
Crash-boom-bang! April 09
We had a first minor production server crash this morning which brought our service down for couple of hours. As we have already a number of beta clients using Edicy, it’s quite a lot to worry about and quite a good lesson to learn.
Edicy does 1999 April 02
For those of you, who missed Edicy’s 90s remake yesterday, here is the mirror (and don’t forget to turn up your speakers!). We hope everyone had a grand April Fool’s Day!
A maze called "Naming Your Software" April 01
By now you might know the name for our main product. It’s Edicy What you might not know are the hours
days of brain crushing in the office to find exactly the right
combination of letters we would be happy with. We searched for
something unique enough to get a good domain name (as it turns out,
every single word in the ordinary English dictionary is already pretty
much taken) but still something with a familiar ring to it. Rather
“Webber” than “Woobzr”, rather “EditMe” than “EdMez”.
Launch! Edicy reaches private beta March 27
Our small team has worked almost constantly during the last month. And now we can finally relax for a second – Edicy has been launched! Yes, Edicy. It’s the brand new name for our core product – the unprecedentedly easy-to-use web-editor.
We are happy, satisfied and completely exhausted :) More info soon, we’ll take a rest for a short while. Until that—browse around Edicy’s site, take the tour and sign up in the public beta’s waiting row. All your questions are welcome!
How we're working March 12
One great thing about start-ups is that you really can start over. You can have latest technologies on programming, latest laptop models on your desktop and you can be damn sure that milk in your fridge isn’t more than three months old. Here is what we have come up while choosing our equipment to do everyday’s work.
First look at our web editor March 10
As the date of the Private Beta release is approaching, we have prepared some first screens for you to look. Instead of the web editing view, we are going to show you another candy—a view where you can select and upload multiple files with “one click”.
How to build a seamless website editor? February 27
As we started to build our web editor a few months ago, we went through a pile of existing CMSs. Yes, we verified that the old saying about millions of them being out there is true. Every decent web agency on the planet has developed at least one tiny content management system. And I guess every fifth person in the Western world owns at least one such agency. So “Why the hell did we have to build yet another CMS?” you ask.
Private beta to be launched in mid-March February 26
Today we set up our first client server, located on US East Coast. Even though the service itself is still under heavy development, we are getting ready for the beta on the hardware side and can already tell that we are going to launch in mid-March.
Release notes for February 22nd, 2008 February 22
We continue to add core-editing functions to Edicy and are pleased with how things are taking shape.
First site running on our web-service February 17
Hi folks! This is just a quick note to tell you that we have launched the first ever site on our web-service-on-development. This historic event was, of course, the result of many long weeks of hard work. We built our product and this little site side-by-side with our good friends at the Estonian Environmental Law Center. While we received valuable testing results and new ideas, they got to be the first brave pioneers to get to actually use our alpha. Not to mention the beautiful fresh website.
Release Notes for Jan 21st - First Edicy release! January 21
Today marks the first release of a version of Edicy.
