We’ve treated ourselves to a re-design of our own site: we’ve outgrown our own skin and it was time to introduce a couple of new aspects.
Update: new site, new showcase, new support section
December 14th, 2008
New functionality: ‘add something’
November 11th, 2008
With the release of Tank4.0 we wanted to address a couple of those small things that have been bugging us for ages. One of these aspects was the way one added things to a site.
New feature: zip-file uploads
November 4th, 2008
We’ll be talking about a couple of new features next: some of them overdue in terms of what you need, and some overdue in terms of where we see the app go. First up: zip-file uploads.
Almost in the clearing
October 31st, 2008
We’re putting the final touches on to Tank4.0: and if everything goes according to plan it should be available to everyone in the next couple of hours, maybe even sooner.
Breaking cover
October 15th, 2008
We’ve been quiet for a while so we thought we’ll share a couple of our ideas to give you an idea of what we’re working towards: a realign of the interface that drives the app.
Alpha: redux
August 6th, 2008
We’re revisiting Alpha and we’re keen to hear what (other) features you think we should include: keep reading to find out what we’ve got so far.
New feature: public and private sites
July 9th, 2008
The recent introduction of the activity tagcloud led to an unforeseen eventuality: any site you create and work on will automatically be linked from our site whether that was your intention or not.
Introducing activity sparklines and tagclouds
June 27th, 2008
We used both ‘sparkline’ and ‘tagcloud’ in the same sentence. Not bad going so early in the day.
Beta-testers wanted for Alpha
May 21st, 2008
We’re putting the finishing touches on our newest skin - Alpha - and we are looking for a couple of beta-testers.
New functionality: the colour picker
April 9th, 2008
We’re putting the final touches on a new feature: the much-requested colour picker. Soon enough you will be able to specify and build up your own colour palette and customise your skin further.
Usability rework: the skin settings screen
December 4th, 2007
Most of the time you spend with our app you will be managing content: your pages, posts, photos and products. But there will come a time when you wander over to the skin tab and happen upon your site’s skin settings.
New feature: global, utility and hidden navigation
November 16th, 2007
We’ve made a couple of changes to what we regard as one of the most important areas of the app: the sitemap. This dashboard gives the user an overview of how her site is structured and gives quick access to any content area that might be in need of an update.
New functionality: improved commenting
October 3rd, 2007
If you’ve been following the development of the app you’d know we like re-using certain aspects throughout the app. The bog-standard comment functionality is used not just in a post section to enable comments on your journal, but we re-use it as a quick and dirty contact form. We’ve noticed our users want to take this further and we’ve made changes to accommodate them.
New feature: template sites
September 18th, 2007
No-one said building a website is easy. Even if a site is simple and straightforward, there are still many variables and factors to take into consideration. Until now, we’ve enabled our users to build their sites ‘from scratch’. While this methodology has worked, it still involves a certain level of hand-holding, and it also allows for users to get it wrong. In short, it clashed with our ‘it just works’ ethos.
Introducing our pricing and feature matrix
September 11th, 2007
We finally managed to get round to putting up our pricing and feature matrix. It marks a slight change in our business model: originally we offered an one month free trial for all sites, but we decided to extend this offer indefinitely, all sites hosted on our development url (within the context of the free plan) will in fact be free. This shift also coincides with how it works in the ‘real world’ of web development: usually a site is built on a development domain, and once everyone is happy with the way it looks and works, the site is then published on it’s own unique domain. We call this the ‘Blue Fairy’ pricing model: you only pay once we turn your site into a ‘real’ site.
Markdown: the simplified version
September 7th, 2007
Let’s face it, the internet consists primarily of text. The site you build with us will invariably consist mostly of text. As we spend so much time entering and editing text - which in turn translates to content for your site - we wanted to make sure we made that experience as natural as possible.
New feature: the photo section
September 1st, 2007
Tank was originally envisaged as an easy interaction between pages, posts, photos and products. We’ve just finished the 3rd aspect: photos. Although you can easily attach any file (including image files) to a page or post, there was still something missing: a quick and easy way to create a collection of photo albums. We went back to the drawing board, stripped out all unnecessary and time-consuming aspects of album creation, and the end-result is almost one of the best features of tank: the photo section.