Viviti 0.1.2 released and we're sending beta keys!
Firstly, thanks for all your comments and suggestions, we appreciate everyones input. With the release of version 0.1.2 today, we've finally started sending out beta keys so you can help out even more. We've had an incredible number of beta key requests, so we're sending out a limited number of keys. If you're one of the lucky ones who receives one, please sure to give us your feedback and invite your friends. Every account will receive 10 free invites to share!
In addition to the various bug fixes and user interface improvements we're constantly doing, we've added a number of new features.
Our RSS and Atom feed component is now faster and better. When you import a feed you can now specify the number of entries to show, whether you want to show the whole feed, just the titles, or a short summary, and you can easily select which display from sites with multiple feeds.
You can now upload images, documents, and many more types of files into the new file manager, which automatically sorts by file type and allows you to organize your files into personalized collections.
To compliment the file manager, we've added a fantastic image component which allows you to display images from your file manager on your web site in any way you choose. Custom sizes, preset size options, image cropping, and resizing are all available. You can even set up a slideshow, link, or lightbox for when somebody clicks one of your images.
The already full featured blog component now supports tagging, we're adding even more hardcore anti-spam technology to what we've already done. Keeping your blogs spam free is important to us.
Although Viviti will not support themes from the Bravenet system, we have been constantly adding fresh, modern, CSS and web standards based themes and will continue to do so. It's a top priority of ours to make sure we have unique, high quality themes for you to choose from.
If you already have your own yourname.com web site, you can now point it to your Viviti site by mapping an A name record to it.
All in all, it's been a busy month here and we're proud to release this version and welcome you eager beta testers! Thanks for your continued patience during our beta cycle.
Jerrett: May 23, 2008We aren't finished sending out our first round of keys yet, a bunch more will be sent out over the next week or so.
Thanks for your patience!
TCA: May 23, 2008Oh, ok. I thought you only sent out a few. Are you sending them out to all the people signed up?
Dan: May 23, 2008@TCA: We're sending out batches of Beta keys at a time. Everyone will eventually get one though! The Beta keys are sent out on a "first come, first serve" basis. :)
EMT: May 23, 2008I hope this will be better than bravenet's and will be a much user-friendly web maker with its free version.
I've signed up for the beta key. Let's get started!
Lori: May 25, 2008I have a new business that I'm very anxious to get online, to support the sales I'm experiencing locally. If you could give us some idea of how long we have to wait to get our key to get our website up, it would be helpful. I'm really under the gun to get a site up and operational.
Thanks
TJ: May 27, 2008Jerrett,
I Did Not Receive My Beta Key YET! Could You Please Send Me My Beta Key NOW??!!
yt: May 27, 2008Eagerly awaiting beta key! How long do you think it will be? I signed up a couple weeks ago.
Jerrett: May 27, 2008There is no age limit for Viviti - I can't say for sure when you will receive your beta key, but we will be sending out a couple hundred more today, and continuing to send batches out as we progress.
Madi: May 27, 2008Hey, i know that people are asking about how long it takes for the beta keys to come, just wondering if the people who already got one could say how long it took just to give us a rough estimate! love ya. so EXCITED!!!!!
TCA: May 28, 2008Ok...so, I made my site, I was using it, then I decided I wanted to change my site name. How??
Jason Tom: May 29, 2008Wow Viviti looks crisp, clean, and user friendly. Something I've been looking for. Can't wait for my Beta key to hammer away at trying this out.
andrew: May 29, 2008This is cool, but yet again its a hosted service!! when will someone create something like this that we can actually put on our own servers, heck I am thinking about building it myself.
TJ: May 29, 2008Ok, I Hate To Be Rude But I Never Got By BETA Key! When Am I Going To Get One???!!!
TJ: May 29, 2008I Hate To BUG So Much But I have a new business that I'm very anxious to get online.........I Have An OpenId I Entered My Identity And It Asked Me My Beta Key........Never Got One!
Daniel Insley: May 29, 2008@TJ: Please be patient. The Beta keys are sent out on a first come, first serve basis. People who have signed up before you will receive theirs first. We're sending out batches of beta keys each day, so you should get yours soon. :)
Tommy: May 30, 2008Well, I Think I Am Going To Try Something Else.....I Signed Up For A Beta Key And I Never Got One. You Don't Need A Beta Key Just To Get A Website, Now Do You!?
Holly: May 31, 2008As a loyal Bravenet user for the past four years, I have to say I'm really excited about this new upgrade to the website builder, Jerrett. I do have a website, but I don't want to do anything to it until Viviti is launched; I want to play! :)
Question: Will Bravenet users be able to work the new Viviti web builder so that blogs are embedded as pages, rather than having to fiddle around with the coding to add the link? (Look at how WordPress does things; that's what I'm getting at)
Overall, Jerrett, you guys totally rock, and I for one am a very proud paying member of Bravenet. :)
Jason Tom: May 31, 2008I'll say, after how many years I've been using Bravenet, I think almost 7 years. I just want to thank Bravehost and Viviti on bringing us clean new features. Viviti is awesome, and has made my life feel a lot better. There are some bugs from the beta I am experiencing that I am sending about that I hope will be resolved soon. Thanks again Bravehost and Viviti!
TJ: June 1, 2008Ok Again, I Hate To Be Rude But I Still Never Got My Beta Key! Could You Guys Like, Post A New Blog Entry That Tells Us We Are Going To Get More Beta Keys? I Would Like To Get My Website On The Internet!
Jerrett: June 2, 2008@Holly - Yep, it's all embedded - you just click add, and then click where you want to add it :)
@Jason - Thanks for the bug reports, we're working to fix the issues you have discovered. That's what the beta is for and you're doing us a great service!
@TJ - sorry it's taking so long, but we have a big list of people who have requested a beta key. You will get your key soon enough!
Jerrett Taylor: June 6, 2008It should be soon, sorry for the wait - we had a lot of people signup for beta keys :)
yt: June 6, 2008I understand about the number of people signing up. I was just curious as to the average waiting period: 3 weeks, 4 weeks, 8 weeks, etc.
hmmm: June 7, 2008How many requests do you get for beta keys daily, compared to how many are actually sent out?
example -
X keys requested:Y keys sent
Jerrett: June 9, 2008Sorry I don't have more information on beta keys, we're controlling growth at this time so we can address issues brought up by testers. We'll be sending out a lot more after the next release, which will be this or next week.
Keep in mind everyone who signs up has 10 invites they can use to invite their friends, so if you know somebody who is using it...
@champions: instructions for hostname mapping can be found under Manage -> Website Settings -> Hostname Mapping - you will have to setup an A record.
Margreet Fortune: June 16, 2008Is it possible to password protect pages with files/pictures?
Thanks
Margreet
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What is Viviti?
Viviti is a free Content Management System and Website Builder that allows you to easily build your own dynamic website, either by selecting one of our premade themes or make your own theme simply by using html and css.
Everything is hosted for you and all management and creation is done in your browser.
Looking for an example? This blog is a Viviti website!
The Viviti Team
We use Viviti to maintain our personal blogs, so if you are curious to see what can be done with Viviti or just want to check out our blogs, here they are:
- Jerrett Taylor
Developer, Project Lead - Daniel Insley
Developer - Tyler Kiley
Developer - Shawn Adrian
Designer
Disclaimer:
None of the opinions or entries expressed on the blogs above are representative of anything official from Viviti. That's what this blog is for :)
You can talk to us and other members on the message forums or on IRC: irc.freenode.net - #viviti
