Updates in file management January 22
How to start a business with (almost) no cost December 31
Anyone starting a new business discovers on day one that it's way too expensive to run one. All those costs you'll need to bear -- rent an office, staff the team, find a bookkeeper, design a logo, make a website. Or... do you, really?
Edicy is now available in Polish! December 23
Christmas is coming and we have a special gift for the Polish people. We're happy to announce that in addition to 15 other languages Edicy is now also available in Polish!
Switch between your websites December 18
Surprisingly many of our users have already built multiple sites with Edicy. It gives us confidence that we are on the right track. But we also discovered that even though it's easy to attach all your sites to a single email account, it was difficult to navigate between them.
Edicy Pro users get 5 GB of storage December 17
As part of the ongoing tweaks and improvements, we added some value to the Edicy Pro feature list. Storage. From now on, Pro users have 5 GB of storage space for their files. It's a whopping 50 times more than free users.
Renew purchased domains in Edicy December 09
The domains purchased from Edicy usually last a year or two, depending on the chosen period when purchasing it. If your domain is about to expire, it needs to be renewed or someone else will get the rights for your domain. We just made it easy for you to add extra years to domain's lifetime.
Fresh cleanups: emails and dialogues December 08
We have just released some small-but-nice refinements on Edicy. It's all about optimization, eye candy and usability.
Intermission November 15
For the last couple of months, we’ve been busy with refining Edicy internally -- moved to better servers, rewrote statistics engine, prepared domain renewal system, worked on business development. All the unsexy stuff that no one notices but one still has to deal with. If a service grows from 0 to 100 000 users quickly -- like Edicy did -- there’s a lot of fine tuning to do.
100,000th page created with Edicy! October 08
So we made it. As of today 100,000 websites have been created with Edicy. To accommodate the fact we had to add a digit to the counter on our front page - and in the process also ended up giving it a facelift. We decided to give the 100 000th user, our very own Märt Kelder a gift - a voucher for Edicy Pro for a whole year. We can't confirm this, but it might be the first time when the words: "Congratulations! You are the 100,000... user of our site! You have won..." actually are not a false promise.
Looking for first-to-see eyes September 30
We've moved servers September 21
Over the weekend in an heroic working spree our developers moved all of Edicy's content into new servers. If you have an Edicy site go ahead and get yourself (or us, we won't mind) a little housewarming gift - you've moved without even knowing about it.
Edicy won the grand prix at Estonian Internet Awards! September 17
Great news to all Edicy users -- we received the grand prix at Estonian Internet Awards competition! Why would you care? Because it states, loud and clear, that Edicy is the right tool to build websites with. Revolutionary, super simple and sporting a special coolness factor.
How to get feedback from your users by using Edicy forms August 21
Edicy has had forms as one of our improvements for a long while, but so far there hasn't been a post telling you about all of their wonderful features. Well, this time is finally over, you can find out how to get the most out of your forms right here.
How to squeeze most out of the designs, pt. 2 August 15
A few weeks ago I wrote about choosing the right design and filling it up with good content. This time I will give you a few tips on how to customize your design with code.
Leave IE6 alone! August 10
One of the more popular bandwagons rolling around the net these days is "Kill Internet Explorer 6". It started with some cool tech companies like Digg and Youtube announcing that they will drop IE6 support. Now everybody and their mother is trying to climb aboard. Well, count us out. Here are few reasons, why we won't be begging our users to switch from IE6.
How to squeeze most out of the designs, pt 1 August 03
When we started working on Edicy we wanted it to be the simplest and most beautiful way to create a website. You don't have to be a code or design guru to have an exceptional online presence for yourself or your business. Although our designs usually look great with any content right out of the box, there are a few ways to make your site really shine. Here's how.
Edicy designer toolkit has been released July 31
Edicy designer toolkit is a simple application that helps you with creating a custom design for your Edicy site. It is intended to simplify the design-code-test cycle every designer does hundreds of times while building a design. If you're a web designer or developer and interested in creating designs that work in Edicy then head on to the dedicated page at our developer site.
Edicy turns one! July 31
Today, Edicy turns one -- a year ago we launched Edicy public beta into the wild. What a wonderful year it has been for us all. During this year, 85 000 people have created a site with us from all around the world.
More web addresses now available at Edicy July 27
If you are growing tired of your old edicypages.com address and are looking to get your own, we have good news for you: Edicy just expanded the number of different domains that are available for purchase through our system.
Edicy adds Finnish to its languages July 23
We're happy to report that in addition to Dutch and 13 other languages Edicy is now also available in Finnish. The Finnish translation, like most of the others, was done by a volunteer, Toivo Talikka.
How to create a great website, pt 6: Increasing traffic July 21
Traffic is about attention. Attention drives sales. Sales fill pockets. So anyone wants to be popular. How to grow the traffic to your site? In the long run, it's all about adding value. Is the stuff on your site interesting / valuable / useful enough for people to reach you? And more importantly, do they want to come back and recommend it to their friends?
Edicy is now available in Dutch! July 16
We are happy to announce that today we released Edicy in Dutch, which is now the 14th language Edicy is available in. The Dutch translation was done by a volunteer, Anno de Vries-de Graaf. He writes about himself and his motivation as follows:
How to create a great website, pt 5: Building functionality July 14
Every day someone contacts me to discuss starting their website project. More often than not they have compiled a list of "I wanna" functionality instead of having a realistic view on how it'll be actually used. The more "I wannas" — the less likely you'll find a single existing tool matching it.
Announcing: Edicy affiliate program July 10
Lately we've been getting quite a few questions from people who'd like to start selling Edicy websites. I'm happy to announce that this is now possible. All you have to do is sign up to our brand new affiliate program (beta) and recommend Edicy to anybody. If they sign up to Edicy and tell us you referred them, you'll receive 25% of their first subscription payment.
New toolbar and other improvements: release notes for July 8th 2009 July 08
We released a new version of Edicy last night and if you've visited your site today you've probably seen the changes. Most noticeably we rejigged the structure of the bottom toolbar a little bit to make its structure more logical.
How to make your website show up on Google July 03
You just created a new website with Edicy but what next? What's the website good for when nobody knows about it? You have to let the world know that there is a new and interesting site. The easiest way to do this is to submit your site to Google because Google is the first source where your potential visitors start to look for information. This post teaches you how to do that.
First Edicy screencast is up June 16
If you want to see the first ever screencast of Edicy in action - complete with soothing music and accented voice-over - check out our brand new tour page. The video is at the top on right hand side.
Getting widgets on your website with Edicy pt. 1 June 11
Widgets are a way to make your website a lot more interesting. Whether you want a clock, a counter on an RSS feed from another site on your page you can be pretty sure that someone somewhere has already built it and you don't need to start inventing a bicycle. But did you know you can use widgets with Edicy as well? Here's how.
Building a multi-language website with Edicy June 05
This is the first in a series of post discussing how to better use Edicy
As we've written before, Edicy speaks more than 10 languages and is looking to add more. But what if you want to create a website that would support as many languages or more? Edicy makes it easy, we have built in support for as many languages as you need.
Maintenance release notes for May 27, 2009 May 28
This week's release is all about various bugfixes and stability improvements in text editor. This also includes changes in table-, photo- and map tools. File uploader and page loading time got some attention too.
Who's using Edicy? May 27
Today I wrote a (hopefully) nice e-mail to many of our more active users, asking for testimonials about using Edicy. But in order to do that I had to dig myself pretty deep into our userbase and came up with some quite interesting things that I'd like to share with all of you.
Edicy to be incubated May 18
Last week Edicy got a speed boost, this week we are being seedboosted. Confusing? It really isn't. Edicy has been included into a freshly started international business incubator by Arengufond - Estonian Development fund, which is basically a state-owned investment fund.
Edicy got a speed boost, Release notes for May 12, 2009 May 12
We've been doing some nice improvements recently in terms of page load times in Edicy to keep up with the growing demand of our service. First and foremost, we implemented page caching for public pageviews and therefore gained approximately 60x faster page load times. Your site visitors will appreciate that. Also, we made some tweaks in site admin area where pages load up to 2-3 times faster than they used to be.
How to create a great website, pt 4: Creating design May 07
If you aren't a designer then there's no need to bother yourself with designing your website on your own. There are two wiser and more effective ways to get the work done -- hire a great designer or pick a ready-made design template from a design stock. And be cautious. Good design doesn’t mean special effects, mind-blowing graphics and a growing number of designer-wannabes visiting your site.
Help us translate Edicy! May 04
Creating a website is easy with Edicy and it should not require users to speak English to do that. Our goal is to make website building experience pleasant for those who do not know English that well. But we can't do it without your help - we are looking for people who would like to help us on translating Edicy into other languages.
How to create a great website, pt 3: Writing content April 30
Websites are created to provide content to it's visitors. Content is king, they say. Everything else (design, system) is just the packaging. Content is normally what your site visitors are looking for. So the key for creating a great website is to provide accurate and interesting content -- texts, pictures, audio or video.
How to create a great website, pt 2: Gathering team April 23
Websites are built up from a number of different bricks. By the end of the day you'll need design, content (texts and pictures), promotion and some technical things like website address, hosting and system for managing content. But most of all you need to get it done. You need decisions, not discussions.
How to create a great website, pt 1: Introduction April 20
Building a great website takes passion. It also takes great copy, good design and a lot of time. These are all luxury items, so it would be wise to optimize the effort. We've put together a series of articles on this very topic. During the next five weeks, we'll tell you the whole story.
Build forms with Edicy, Release notes for April 14, 2009 April 14
Today we're happy to announce form builder in Edicy. Now you can create forms with ease to gather user's feedback. And everything happens right where it should -- directly on page. Along with other minor improvements, this week's release also brings us fresh new design template called Daejeon.
Have a great design. Edicy design examples renewed April 02
We have redesigned the design examples section of edicy.com. Designs, featured sites and custom designed sites are now all togeteher on the same page. Carousel browsing was so 2008, so we dropped it and chose something new for the spring season.
Edicy going Internet Explorer only April 01
It is no surprise to anyone who has ever tried to build elegant web applications or even just a simple web-site that different browsers display pages differently. To work around these issues, developers have to use an exhausting amount of different cheats and "hacks" and sometimes even these don't work. To ensure that Edicy-experience is the same for everyone, we're pleased to announce that starting next week, Edicy will only work in Internet Explorer.
Management of content areas improved. Release notes for March 24, 2009 March 24
The most important improvement in this week's release is a feature to add multiple blocks of content into single content area on page. For example, a photo gallery and feedback form can now live happily next to each other. Alongside with this improvement, we also made it possible to drag these content blocks around on the page. And if you get bored with that, it is now much more easier to remove content from page.
To publish or not to publish - You decide! March 17
In Edicy, all the changes will be automatically and continuously saved but to show these changes to public, they need to be published because sometimes you don't want to show the working drafts to the site visitors. Until now, publishing content was little bit confusing. We did our changes in Edicy, logged out and, boom, everything was gone. What!? Oh, you had to press publish button before logging out... It had to be changed.
Table editor is now available in Edicy. Release notes for March 17, 2009 March 17
Table editor, yet another long-awaited feature is now available for all Edicy users. Along with tables, this weeks release brings many other improvements to Edicy. For example, we've been working hard to improve usability, overall speed and performance. We fixed compatibility issues with Microsoft's upcoming Internet Explorer 8 browser and more.
Media sets, form-to-mail, a lot of fixes. Release notes for Feb 8, 2009 February 08
A number of users have already so large amount of pictures and other files uploaded to their Edicy sites, that it became increasingly difficult to get quick overview of them while editing. Therefore we launched a feature that lets you group all your media into sets -- both photo albums and sets of PDF documents work well in Edicy.
Add forms and receive feedback. Release notes for Jan, 20 January 20
Adding forms to site has been yet another feature that was asked too many times by our users. Today it is finally ready to hit the beta. Now you can set up feedback forms and site visitors can finally tell what they're thinking about you.
See your site traffic in Edicy January 13
We just released the first piece of site traffic information inside Edicy. At the moment, this feature contains only one simple graph where each site owner can see the number of unique visits for the last 30 days. But this is only a beginning, expect more fine-tuning, graphs, trends and usage statistics to be released in next upcoming weekly releases.
Want more Edicy? Find out how to tell us January 11
So you have this "Edicy page", but really missing a feature or two? We know you have your page but always don't know what you find essential and it's just not there yet. Here are some clues how to send us your ideas, feature requests, bug reports and even season greetings.
Edit images and add maps to your site! Release notes for Jan 7, 2009 January 07
A happy new year starts with more editing capabilities for everyone. From now on, you can edit your photos from there, where they belong -- right on page. Another great thing, adding Google Maps to site, has been requested too many by our users so we decided to push it in very last minute. And as usual, there's a number of bugfixes and improvements in this release.
Interview with Tõnu Runnel at ArcticStartup December 23
For us, the follow-up buzz after LeWeb conference does not want to end. This time, the leading weblog about great nordic tech startups, ArcticStartup, published a video interview with Tõnu taken on LeWeb Paris. If you're still wondering what is this edicy-thingy all about, check out the video below the fold:
Local domains and design treats. Release notes for Dec 19, 2008 December 22
Happy holidays everyone! Just in time for christmas we present you a brand new design Buenos Aires and some local domains for purchase!
Design, art and usability December 19
I have B.A in Law. There's no academic design education in my CV. It's defintiely a missing piece and there is nothing to boast about. I love design. I'm a graphic designer after all. I should get a wider view on the subject. Read and discuss with the alike. I should go and study it.
Improve your site's visibility in Google search results. Release notes for Dec 16, 2008 December 17
If a website is created and noone finds it, does it exist? We believe that besides a beautiful design and editing ease a good site should also be easily found by anyone. That's why Edicy has been developed with search engines in mind: you can access a number of different SEO (search engine optimization) tools to improve your sites page-rank and today we added one more.
A merry-go-round of hope: world's start-up scene at Le Web December 14
Edicy was invited to take part in this year's startup competition at Le Web -- one of the most important online business events in the world. Le Web itself was success. It brought together European, American and Asian cool startups, tech evangelists, investors. A lot of partnerships will be born, a lot of ideas were exchanged and a lot of money will change its owners soon.
Galleries in beta! Release notes for Dec 10, 2008 December 10
Boy, do we have great news for you all! The most requested feature in Edicy - galleries, is now in public beta. You can arrange any number of photos in your media section into a neat gallery with an integrated lightbox viewing mode.
Greetings from Paris! December 09
As you might have noticed, we're giving a presentation on Edicy at LeWeb'08 Startup Competition today. Since the internet connection is very occasional here, it is hard to keep you updated of all the interesting things happening around.
Edicy design documentation is now available! December 03
It's been baking in the oven for some time already. Today i'm happy to announce that our Template API is finally ready to hit the public. This documentation will provide all reference material you need to customize everything of your site design. Template API is just a section of our new developer mini-site, so you can expect more topics for developers to be relased in near future.
Release notes for December 2nd, 2008 — More design choices December 02
Edicy is all about letting your content shine through beautiful designs and today we doubled the choice between different Edicy templates – every template has now a new stunning colour variation plus we introduce a whole new design: Astana. Hopefully you'll find something to spice up your existing site or get enough inspiration to customize one of our templates to your own needs.
Edicy.com — new look December 01
We're ready with refreshing the looks of the front page of our website. In addition to adjusted design style, we've added a small Pro section there, a map showing latest signups and a small pic to illustrate latest news.
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.
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