Posts Tagged ‘cms’

Links For 2009-01-22

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Don’t worry, the whole links thing won’t become a regular feature of this blog – this is just a roundup of a few things I have wanted to post about recently but just didn’t have the time:

  • There is a cool writeup about Konductor on O’Reilly’s InsideRIA blog (Even though it reads a bit like a blogvertisement in parts, it is very thorough)

  • There a bunch of new videos about Konductor on our Youtube channel – if you want visual and aural updates of Konductor’s progress, then subscribe
  • This one has been blogged to death already, but I am loving Big Spaceship’s Pretty Loaded – I hope they can keep adding new content

It has been a little barren on the blog lately, but I have a few posts I really want to write up about some really cool stuff we are doing with Dreamweaver extension development, so subscribe to the RSS feed and keep your eye open for it if you are into that kind of thing.

Oh, The Passion!

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Konductor Sketch

There is an awesome write up on the Teknision blog regarding their work on the Konductor AIR application.

Gabor, John and especially Tony (I am always biased toward the developer :P ) have really helped shape Konductor since beginning of the project. We started out with an idea, and, with their experience in planning and developing good UX, along with their ideas and discussions on how to apply AIR’s unique features, Konductor was really brought to life. We now have a slick application that is being rolled out to the public.

Not to sound like a broken record, but if you’re at Adobe MAX this year, come check our booth out. You can play with the application, and talk with Teknision and ourselves to find out how accomplished a lot of this. I’m sure you will be just as excited as we are about it!

Duane’s World Episode 13

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Exciting stuff – because we’re in it! I think the video gives a nice overview of what we do, and demonstrates pretty well how the the whole platform operates. It’s probably easier to just watch it then have me explain it…


http://tv.adobe.com/#vi+f1537v1001

Some portions of the Dreamweaver Extension and AIR application get a little cut out of view, but that is why we have a bunch of video’s demoing all the different aspects of the platform :P

Anyways, Adobe MAX is fast approaching, I’m looking forward to catching up with everyone there, and talking more about Konductor. I really think what we have will blow some minds. It will be great to finally see the guys at Teknision again too, who have been working hard on the AIR application on the other side of the continent.

Also, thanks Duane for taking the time to come check us out – Konductor does make AIR look pretty good though :P

Konductor Demonstration Videos

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

I just posted 2 new demo videos on the Konductor blog.

I will go into a little more detail about exactly what is behind each of these functions, and what that does for you. (more…)

Konductor Pre-release Now Open!

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

Hey guys, just thought you might be interested in knowing that the Konductor pre-release is now open! Better sign up now, it’s filling up very fast!

The Konductor Demo Video!

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

We finally got a video put together. While it is very preliminary, you do get a pretty good idea of what the Konductor platform can do. Let me know what you think!


http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej2obn24mdE&fmt=18

There will be more updates coming soon…

UPDATE: It seems the video doesn’t seem to be working for some – I embedded it HQ, maybe that has something to do with it… I updated the embed code, hopefully that fixes it. And just in case, here is a link to the standard quality video, and the high quality video.

UPDATE: The YouTube links still work, but we have moved our video hosting to MotionBox, as they offer much higher quality video. I have changed the embedded video to the MotionBox version.

Intuitive Menu Management Is Harder Than You Think…

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

We have discovered this over the last few months. There are so many ways to create and organize menus, and so much variance in how menus function and look. Plus, with Teknision having tons of experience creating slick interfaces, and us having built and refined menu managers over the years, I was thinking this would be a breeze. (more…)

Sneak Peek At Our AIR Interface!

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Ok, so this is awesome:

These are some of the design explorations Teknision has provided…

As a designer, I would pumped on giving this to a client! Sure beats contribute on the sexy test :P I love how how the interface caters for small sites and large ones using by giving the users a few views to choose from. And yes, those thumbnails are going to be real snapshots of the pages. Let me know what your think!

What The Heck Is Konductor?

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Well first things first, I’d better introduce myself. I’m Andrew Odri, a senior developer at a small software company called Konductor in Vancouver. I have worked with content management for while, and have worked with Adobe tools a lot. And here is what I have noticed…

Good web designers love designing web sites. And most of them use Dreamweaver. On the flip side, good designers don’t usually want to get bogged down setting up web servers, FTP servers, configuring Dreamweaver to work with these, and having to go through this process over and over just to edit some content at a later date. I guess that’s kinda obvious.

Then we have the clients of web designers. I’m just going to call them users for now. Users usually just want to change content, edit menus and add new pages. They know what they want to add, and they know what it should look like. In many cases, they want a new product page to look pretty similar to there old product page. What they don’t want is a big blank page with nothing in it. Or a scary interface that is just as complicated as Dreamweaver (*cough* Contribute *cough*). And they don’t want to bug their designer all the time just to make simple changes.

Anyway, those are some of the big problems I’ve noticed. Theres lots of little ones ones too. For example, does your user want to put a new photo on their site? Its 12 megapixels… So they either A) have to resize it themselves, or B) upload the whole thing to server. And what about previewing pages as you edit? True pixel perfect WYSIWYG, especially with custom designs, doesn’t exist at the moment.

Anyway, we are working on some tools using Dreamweaver extensions and Adobe AIR to get this right. We are actually really far along too. We have been working with Teknision for our AIR interfaces, consulting with Nitobi for our Dreamweaver extensions, and using our own expertise in this area to build the back end web services. We have them all talking to each other already.

We have a lot of exciting stuff post, and will be doing so very shortly. We are super excited about what we are sitting on right now – I hope you will be too!

More (substantial) stuff shortly…