Konductor Blog

How does Konductor work? How can I make parts of my site editable? Can you manage menus dynamically? Questions like these are common to hear from designers new to Konductor. Yesterday, if you had asked us one of these questions, we would have sent you to our help documentation. Starting today we can now show you how to do what you need to do with Konductor.

Over the last few weeks we’ve produced a number of tutorial videos that we’re now pleased to release to you through our YouTube account. Everything from downloading the tools you need to how to work with links and anchors within content regions is covered. Here are two of the playlists we’ve put together, one for designers and one for your clients:

Designer tutorials playlist:

Client tutorials playlist:

We hope that you enjoy and learn lots from these videos. If you have any requests or suggestions for new videos, feel free to leave a comment. And don’t forget that we’re still here to help one-on-one as well, so if you have any questions that aren’t covered in a video, someone will be sure to get back to you pronto.

The fruits of our ideas and labor are growing. We’re pleased to announce that the Konductor Extension for Dreamweaver is currently the featured product on the Adobe Dreamweaver Exchange! Thank you to all 7,400+ people who, at the time of writing this, 10,000+ people have downloaded the extension and are beginning to see and express just how valuable Konductor can become to their design business.

We’re really happy to be receiving great responses from designers all over the world. Keep the feedback coming and know that we’re here because we support what you designers already do, without making your life more complicated.

Another interview has been posted with Derek Zarbrook, this time with The Digital Scene at Adobe MAX 2009. If you watch closely, you’ll even get a little sneak peak of what’s to come with Konductor in the near future. Enjoy.

RedMonk has posted a great interview with Derek Zarbrook on Konductor’s unique use of Adobe AIR. Included below is the interview and a nice demo of the system in action as well.

Michael Coté:

Thus far, most examples have really just been web pages on the desktop that, at best, have off-line modes or are closed-up video players. It was nice, then, to find a use of AIR that took moved beyond these uses in Konductor’s AIR client.

Read the full article.

Thousands of people and hundreds of demos later, we’re finally back in wet Vancouver after Adobe MAX 2009. We had a really great time down in LA, and we want to thank all the people that came out to say hi and check out how far we’ve come in the last year. We’re finally out of beta and the response we’re receiving from designers and others is really exciting!

The show itself was great, everything from the sessions to the food to the special events; we had fun and learned lots.

Konductor also got some nice press exposure as well regarding our launch:

• PC World – Hosting Service Helps Web Designers Stay in Control
• PC World – AIR 2.0 Will Flow to Flip Cams, Local Apps
• The Flex Show – Episode 88: Interviews from Adobe Max (Konductor interview @ 43:45)

But now the play time is over and it’s time to get back to pushing Konductor further and refining the solid start that things are off to. We have a lot of great ideas in the pipeline, so stay tuned for updates.

We also had time to take some snaps at the show. Read the rest of this entry »

So what’s Konductor all about anyways? Why bring another CMS into the mix? How does a designer benefit from using Konductor? These are all great questions that we hear often, and we now have a fancy way of summing up the answers.

Introducing the brand new Konductor promotional video! We’ve worked hard on it, and we hope you like it.

Well, we made it through Round 1 and we’re now in the race to the finals.  InsideRIA‘s Best RIA of 2009 semi-finals are now open for voting!  If you like us (we sure hope you do), please take a few clicks out of your busy day to head over and cast a vote.

The top 3 RIA’s of this round will head to the finals, which will be voted on in October at Adobe MAX.

Side note – official introductory pricing for Konductor will be announced soon, stay tuned (by tuned, we mean RSS feed’d).

Ok, so I’ll admit it, there’s a few geeks here in the office. Most of us here use Macs, so today was a big day for us with the release of Snow Leopard. Seeing as the Apple Store is not too far away from the office, I decided to head on over and see if I could grab a couple copies to see how the Konductor platform worked on it.

Well, after waiting in line for a few minutes, and then waiting for everyone to stop clapping when the gate to the store raised (not sure what that’s all about) I was able to grab some copies.  The installation went really well; very quick and straightforward.  From there it was time to see how the Konductor tools worked on the OS.

We hear that CS3 doesn’t work with Snow Leopard, but we’re using CS4 so we weren’t too concerned. To our delight, the OS seems really polished and both Dreamweaver CS4 and AIR work flawlessly on it.  So being, both the Konductor Dreamweaver Extension and the Konductor AIR App worked just as expected.  It doesn’t get much better than that, a refined OS that works perfectly with the tools you need.

The team here at Konductor just wants to say thank you everyone who voted for us in Round 1 of InsideRIA’s Best RIA of 2009 poll!  We received the most votes, even though we were up against some tough competition like Aviary and Creately.  It’s awesome to see that everyone is as excited about Konductor as we are.

The semi-finals poll beings next Monday, August 31st; be sure to click back and vote us to the top once again.

We are returning as a sponsor at Adobe MAX this year, which is being held in Los Angeles, California on October 4th – 7th.

Be sure to stop by our booth (#841), say hi, and see what we’ve been working hard on over the past year with our Dreamweaver extension and AIR application.

If this is your first introduction to Konductor, come by our booth and we can show you how easy it is to add content management to an existing site. Even better, bring along your own website, and we can give you a demonstration of Konductor’s CMS using that!  We’re looking forward to meeting up with some old friends and meeting lots of new faces.