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.

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.

O’Reilly’s InsideRIA posted a really detailed writeup on Konductor – check it out. It does a very good job at covering Konductor’s features, so if you have been a little curious about some of the finer details of Konductor, this makes for a good read.

Well, a lot has been happening behind the scenes with our Dreamweaver extension. We have recorded a quick little demonstration to show everyone just how easy it is get a Dreamweaver template onto the Konductor system. Check it out:

We will be releasing a new version of the extension soon as well, which will have refined menu styles for layout, form styles for layout, and added stability for the existing features.

Anyway, check out the video – it’s short, and shows just how easy it is to get your sites ready for Konductor. Plus, if you want to sign up to try it out, send me a line. (Make sure you leave the subject as is )

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!