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Announcing Viviti: Build websites with no code and no hassle (we hope!)

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Re: Announcing Viviti: Build websites with no code and no hassle (we hope!)

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Post by jsmcgd »

tkiley wrote: post #6
bprater wrote: post #5

It's obvious there has been a tremendous amount of development time invested in the project. Looks great, feels good. There are many site builders out there, so I think execution counts for a lot. Two quick suggestions: 1) Get a demo video up on the homepage. Show a person what they can do. 2) Get a demo video up after a person has signed up. If my dad were using this, he could walk through the wizard up to the point…

Good points. Getting a demo video up on the homepage is a priority at this point; for orientation after sign-up, we're thinking about doing a quick overlay/popup that explains how to edit and add content. I don't think it should take more than a few hints to help people through creating their first few pages. Thanks for checking it out.

$0.02: I would prefer to try the site or view a video before I hand over my email address.

Re: Announcing Viviti: Build websites with no code and no hassle (we hope!)

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Post by tkiley »

fizx wrote: post #9

The tool itself is wonderful. I'd switch my blog from wordpress to it, if it had analytics, and I knew you'd be around a year from now. Minor thing on signup: Password: ancmthdnvu Password Strength: You're kidding, right? Password: 123456 Password Strength: Admirable

Thanks for the feedback. We'll keep working on the password strength checker :) We're trying to make it a little fun so people will voluntarily choose stronger passwords.

Re: Announcing Viviti: Build websites with no code and no hassle (we hope!)

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Post by eli_s »

You guys really have an excellent product here. Extremely easy to use, great features and looks great too.

I'm sure you will get lots of users. What type of pricing will you be looking at?

I think you could work on optimising the page updates. Simply swapping the image in the header resulted in a full page reload which added up to almost 1mb! This makes the site seem (slightly)slow and makes it completely inaccessible to dial up users (yes they're still out there! hehe).

Re: Announcing Viviti: Build websites with no code and no hassle (we hope!)

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Post by tkiley »

eli_s wrote: post #13

You guys really have an excellent product here. Extremely easy to use, great features and looks great too. I'm sure you will get lots of users. What type of pricing will you be looking at? I think you could work on optimising the page updates. Simply swapping the image in the header resulted in a full page reload which added up to almost 1mb! This makes the site seem (slightly)slow and makes it completely inaccessibl…

Funny that you would test the header image first. We've managed to do partial updates for most content on the pages, but right now we still do a full reload (window.location.reload(true), for you DOM junkies) for image replacements.

We haven't nailed down the pricing structure yet, but we will be announcing it very soon, and we'll definitely have a free version.

Thanks for the feedback!

Re: Announcing Viviti: Build websites with no code and no hassle (we hope!)

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Post by owkaye »

The layout is ruined in a narrow browser window. Obviously you never gave this much thought. Why not?

Sorry to sound so 'critical' but you asked for it. I hate websites like this even more than websites that make me scroll horizontally, because at least horizontal scrolling lets me see the page properly

Nothing works to fix your site except a wider browser window ... :(

Re: Announcing Viviti: Build websites with no code and no hassle (we hope!)

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Post by tkiley »

owkaye wrote: post #15

The layout is ruined in a narrow browser window. Obviously you never gave this much thought. Why not? Sorry to sound so 'critical' but you asked for it. I hate websites like this even more than websites that make me scroll horizontally, because at least horizontal scrolling lets me see the page properly Nothing works to fix your site except a wider browser window ... :(

Thanks for pointing that out. We fixed the CSS issue, and we'll get it out to the production servers later today.

Re: Announcing Viviti: Build websites with no code and no hassle (we hope!)

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Post by dinsley »

run4yourlives wrote: post #17

Well done, this is very good. I'm guessing you guys are Canadian as well from the cbc feed in the examples? Nice to see some good tech coming our of the great white north! Sometimes I feel all alone up here!

Thanks! We're located in British Columbia, Canada!
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