Konductor Blog

In order to show you higher quality videos, we decided to start hosting our videos on motionbox, in addition to YouTube. And then HD arrived on YouTube. We also uploaded some new videos that demonstrate some of the features we are working on. Behold…

Image optimization

Image optimization is one of the most requested features we get from both users and designers. In order to upload a large image to a CMS these days, users are expected to resize the images themselves. This takes time, and if they are not tech savvy, it takes training too. In most cases, though, the image tends to get uploaded as is. The image just gets scaled, not resized – this takes the user a long time to upload, and visitors end up downloading huge image too. So here is what we have done:

Form Builder

Another highly requested feature is an easy way to build and manage forms. This is often more complicated than it seems on the surface, as database storage, result aggregation, email responses and the like all have be managed too. This one is still a bit of a work in progress, but here is what we have so far:

More videos are on the way! Plus if you missed our initial platform demonstration a couple of months back, make sure you check it out. (A lot has changed since then though…)

Last year, Konductor (then known as “Project Argebam”) went to the Adobe MAX show in Chicago. This year we are sponsors! We are extremely excited to be part of the amazing event that Adobe puts on and believe that this is the perfect place to reveal to the design and development community what we have been working on for the past 2 years. We are also sponsoring an invite only after hours rock show with Adobe Evangelist Duane Nickull‘s band, 22nd Century, to perform. If you are going to MAX (who isn’t?), drop us a line for some free tickets. See you in San Fran!

Due to the overwhelming response to the prerelease program – over 500 in 7 days – we have decided to keep the doors open to 500 more. We will be breaking up the users into groups of 50 to 100 over the next few days, with first group of users being sent the AIR application as early as next week. Thanks to all for the amazing response!

The wait is over – kind of. Well at least we have an orderly line forming now.

As of yesterday, October 5th, Konductor announced that it is now giving away 500 pre-release seats for free to the Web professional community. Within 8 hours we had 109 sign-ups from Designers and Developers all over the world! The Konductor Extension for Dreamweaver to allow Designers to easily work with Konductor from right inside Dreamweaver is coming soon.

If you are interested in test driving the future of content management sign up at the top right of this page now!

This is the name of Duane’s most recent post. I figured this might be about investigating buildings, but it’s actually way more interesting – the process of software architecture in the real world. He nicely compares the idealistic method of architecting software versus what actually happens in the world, and uses some great examples to illustrate this.

Duane is also co-authoring a book on Web 2.0 Patterns. The fact that a group of very smart authors are putting together some guidelines on designing Web 2.0 applications based on years of real world experience should be of interest to pretty much anyone managing a Web 2.0 project, and anyone involved in developing one.

January 2009 people!