Synthasite in Beta… Brain dead simple web publishing that works
- November 5th, 2007 /
Our friends at Synthasite launched in beta this morning, and I’ve in reviewing Synthasite Web publishing tools for the last hour. I’m extremely impressed with what they’ve been able to put together. Synthasite has come a long way since its tech preview earlier this year, at that point a lot of the initial functionality was there, but it wasn’t a simplified and elegant a solution as it is today.
I’ve reviewed Synthasite in the spirit of testing it out, have published my thoughts here using my Synthasite powered Voodoo Ventures site. Here are a few brief thoughts from my review:
- Uploading images is simple as can be.
- The site management functionality and brain dead simple publishing tool solves what has been the biggest problem for me with quickly putting up simple websites.
- The site management has been simplified since the alpha preview.
- It’s easy to create pages, drag-and-drop widgets, text blocks or whatever else you want to pull into the page.
I encourage you to head over to my Synthasite powered site for the full review.
Congrats to Vinny and his team for getting Synthasite launched. As I mentioned in the review, what impresses me most is that Synthasite is ready to be used by and provide value to anyone who wants to publish a website. The ability to download a zip file of the site you create and upload it to your own server means you can start using Synthasite for free today to create a high quality website.
Disclosure: The Flatsourcing team has worked with Synthasite to create the exterior pages of the site. We are very fortunate to be involved with this project. While the Synthasite team has done the heavy lifting with the creation of the Synthasite IDE, we’re pleased to be able to provide support and programming for the Synthasite.com portal. I’ll be sharing more in the coming weeks about our involvement, and the continuing expansion of Flatsourcing. Anybody looking for high quality, high value web programming and design, please let us know.
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Nov 12, 2007 at 3:22 am
Congrats on the Beta release! The software is great, it’s for sure the pro developers who created this web-service, so it has no other choice but succeed! The core user routes are very well polished and tested. Very patient and professional development and management team behind indeed!
Jan 13, 2008 at 6:58 am
I have been enjoying playing around with synthasite. Looking forward to the new developments
Nov 20, 2008 at 2:26 am
I am a pure novice looking for a simple create and useable web site. Synthasite sounds good, however the hardest part for me to grasp is the process of getting a web page to web server that can be seen on the web. There is a sentence.”The ability to download a zip file of the site you create and upload it to your own server means you can start using Synthasite for free today to create a high quality website. what do you mean by “my server” as oposed to a “host server”. Probably dumb but nesessary question.
K Hancey
Nov 20, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Hi K Hancey –
Thanks for stopping by. It sounds like you would just want to host it with Synthasite, which means you don’t have to do anything. You can just use your own domain name with them.
A more advanced thing to do would be to zip it up and download it and install it on a separate server, but you really don’t need to do this.
Chris