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12:38pm June 10th, 2008 By webon.team
Earlier this week, we released two new styles, Americana and Taped Down, which you can find by clicking on Styles in the site editor. (Taped Down can be found under the "user-submitted" category, but strummer6048 designed it on our behalf.)
We plan to roll out new styles pretty regularly for the foreseeable future. Enjoy!
Tags: styles
2:20pm June 2nd, 2008 By webon.team
Earlier today we added a new feature to the Webon editor: Undo!
Now if you remove an add-on, image, or other page element, you'll see a small message just below the toolbar that confirms what you did. If you made a mistake, you can click the "Undo" link next to the message to restore the item you removed.
The Undo feature also works when you move a page element from one region of your page to another (e.g. from the main content area to the sidebar).
We hope this will save you all some grief without being too in-your-face. Let us know what you think.
Tags: features
10:58am May 30th, 2008 By webon.team
If you don't check out Webon's styles and kits very often, you might have missed some of our new additions.
Earlier this week, we introduced the Baby Kit for new and expectant parents. It includes a journal, photo album, and guestbook, and we've created some new styles specifically for this kit.
We've also added two general-purpose styles, Beach and Blackstone. Beach is (not surprisingly) a beach-themed style, while Blackstone is an abstract style with a dark background and light blue floral motif.
Check them out!
5:58pm May 20th, 2008 By webon.team
One of our goals with Webon is to make it as easy as possible for website builders and visitors to interact. To that end, we just added OpenID support to sites built with Webon.
What's OpenID? It's an ID or username that you can use at many places across the web. Unlike some other initiatives, it's an open standard, which means that no single company controls it.
The best thing about it, though, is that you may already have an OpenID. Big names like AOL, Yahoo!, WordPress, LiveJournal, and Blogger already provide them; if you have an account with one of those services, chances are you can use your username on any site where OpenID is supported.
As of now, that includes sites built with Webon. You can see this by going to a Webon blog or photo album and leaving a comment. You'll have the option to sign in with a Webon username or with any OpenID that you might already have. For builders, this means most visitors won't even need to register to contribute to a site.
In the near future, we'll be adding built-in support for OpenID across all add-ons, and we'll also be an OpenID provider for those folks who don't have an OpenID already. This is just the first step toward our goal of taking the hassle out of making dynamic, social websites.
Tags: features
7:54am May 8th, 2008 By webon.team
We've just created an album of photos taken in and around our office here in Waltham, MA. Check it out by clicking "Scenes from Webon" in the site navigation.
6:35am May 1st, 2008 By webon.team
Some of us on the Webon team have been building websites since the mid-1990s. Site-building applications have come a long way since then, but we think all of them are frustrating in one way or another:
- Too specialized: Most site-building apps let you write a blog, or build a site for your wedding, or upload photos from your vacation, or do something else. But if like most people you have more than one interest in your life, you need to learn multiple apps and keep track of multiple accounts. With Webon, however, you can create sites for many different purposes in one place. You can even combine them all into one site with a single uniform style if you want to.
- Too much hassle: Even with all the improvements and innovations that site-building apps have made over the years, building a website can still be a pain. Either you need to jump through hoops to register and configure your site, or it doesn't look the way the app tells you it should. We've tried to remove these hassles: you don't need to register to try out Webon, for example, and you edit your site's content directly on the page in real time.
- Too little control: Many site-building apps limit the ways in which you can customize your site's functionality and appearance. Webon, on the other hand, will allow you to create entirely new add-ons (also known as widgets) and styles if you don't like the ones we provide. Other sites also tend to insert ads or their own branding, which is understandable--they need to make money somehow--but unattractive from a user perspective. We're taking a different approach and have no plans to put ads on sites published on Webon.
By designing Webon to counter these frustrations, we're creating the site-building app we always wished we had. We also have plans for some enhancements that will make Webon sites more powerful than those created with other apps, but we're not quite ready to unveil those yet.
Tags: development, features, philosophy
