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Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website

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Re: Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website

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This is interesting. I'm blind, and while I can think of ideas for products/side projects, designing a nice-looking website is such a huge momentum-killer. I mean, I know that I could just focus on features, keep the site design simple, and build a good design later. Then I visit , and half the comments are about how some UI element or other breaks on some combination of browser or other, and the last thing I want is…

You know, I have no idea how to make stuff more accessible. If you don't mind, could you tell us about how you browse the web, so others like me can make our content more universally accessible? Any recommended resources for that kind of design?

There's heaps of resources out there, but honestly, just download something like NVDA (it's an open source Screen Reader) and try it for yourself, first hand.

Re: Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website

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Nice! Really easy to use and the templates look great. One question though: > Launchaco website builder is licensed under CC0 Does that mean both the website builder itself and the website you build with it are CC0? And is the source to the builder available anywhere?

Apologies, copy isn't clear there - will deploy a change. The website you download is licensed under cc0, however if there's interest we wouldn't mind open sourcing our builder. It's written in Elm, & go.

I would absolutely love to poke around the source code for the builder! Thanks for the awesome tool!

Re: Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website

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Looks awesome. Have reviewed a ton of website builders and this is one of the easier ones. Only problem is when I hit the download button the .txt file is blank.

When I hit download, it is a zip but doesn't have a zip extension, just blank.

Love it to death anyway though!

Re: Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website

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Reason I'm not getting into web development.

I am not sure if building static HTML pages represents the bulk of what web development is about. (Disclaimer: I am a "web developer")

The other way you could take his comment is he doesn't want to have to build apps like Launchaco. Because they way you interpreted it, which is probably correct, is completely ignorant. Launchaco generates marketing web sites. Web developers build the web apps that some of these marketing sites are trying to sell. It might be a reason not to become a web designer though.

(Disclaimer: I am a "web developer")

Re: Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website

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Sorry to be negative, but I'm honestly mystified by the complimentary comments.

First, attempting to set up a domain name sends me to some site named shareasale.com. The site is blocked on my system because I'm using the winhelp2002.mvps.org HOSTS file to block shady web sites.

Next, I follow the 4 steps to select the Hero, Feature, Social and Footer templates. How I'm supposed to make an intelligent choice based on the shadowy outlines is beyond me.

Finally, I'm apparently supposed to click the Download... link. This gets me a little "success" message - but the end result is a file called "download" with no extension. Renaming the download to download.zip gives me something to extract which is... a single HTML file plus css and image folders. Clicking on the HTML gives me a local copy of the launchaco main page with no sort of customizations or anything.

WTF?

Re: Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website

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Interesting, and I even like the name.

But... when I click on "Let's do it" under "Build your Website," nothing happens. This appears to be because what you need to do next is already on the screen: select a template.

So I would replace "Let's do it" with "Get started by selecting a template below." Currently, it looks broken (especially since clicking on "Let's do it" under "Name Your Business" DOES result in something happening).

Also, after selecting a template, the grid of templates disappeared and the bottom of the screen was replaced by a bunch of other elements. It wasn't clear at first that this was an example of the selected template, because the grid of templates disappeared (and was replaced by a smaller line of them). I thought I might need to interact with this large pane of items to proceed.

I suggest keeping the array of template thumnails consistent at all times, so when you click on one, the entire screen doesn't change; the example simply appears. In fact, you should probably start with the first template highlighted and the example layout shown (with an arrow or other indicator pointing from the template thumbnail to the layout).

Also... because the example layout fills the entire bottom portion of the screen and sometimes appears to fit perfectly, it's not readily apparent that you proceed to the next step by scrolling down. At first I was looking for a "proceed" or "next step" arrow. Reducing the example layout in size and confining it to a defined area on the screen would let you make navigation through the steps more clear. You could also let the user select different devices for the layout preview, and simply change the shape of the confined area instantly to show the layout on the selected device.

And finally: Is the download button supposed to work? It doesn't do anything for me.

Re: Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website

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post #76

Sorry to be negative, but I'm honestly mystified by the complimentary comments. First, attempting to set up a domain name sends me to some site named shareasale.com. The site is blocked on my system because I'm using the winhelp2002.mvps.org HOSTS file to block shady web sites. Next, I follow the 4 steps to select the Hero, Feature, Social and Footer templates. How I'm supposed to make an intelligent choice based on…

That's more than I got from clicking the download button. Didn't do anything for me.

Re: Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website

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This is interesting. I'm blind, and while I can think of ideas for products/side projects, designing a nice-looking website is such a huge momentum-killer. I mean, I know that I could just focus on features, keep the site design simple, and build a good design later. Then I visit , and half the comments are about how some UI element or other breaks on some combination of browser or other, and the last thing I want is…

This is really interesting...we are furiously refectoring our site to make it more accessible....u r comment could not have come at a better time for me.
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