Hi Everyone!
Thanks to everyone for all the testing and feedback! The good news it that we’re finally launching Synthasite into Beta and the confirmed date is 5 November 2007! Yup, it’s Guy Fawkes Day, so we hope that it will be a blast! 🙂
What can you expect in the Beta? Most importantly, we’ll have Publishing – so your site can go live after you’ve built it on one of our sub-domain names (xyz.synthasite.com). We’ll also have about a dozen site templates to start with and you’ll also be able to download your site or host it elsewhere (and edit the PHP code, if you want!).
That’s about all I can say right now, but there is a lot more in store – I’m just not making any promises. Our strategy is to release the Beta on 5 November, ensure that it’s stable and then roll out a heck of a lot of features in the weeks that follow.
We’ve really been busy trying to plan our architecture to ensure that we can scale the application to serve thousands of users, and also that we minimize any inconvenience to our Alpha testers as we migrate them the Beta platform.
That’s all from me this week. We’re trying to rotate the blogging between everyone in the team, so expect Peter, Stefan, Brent & David to post here on a weekly basis!
Thanks again for all the support!
Regards
Vinny Lingham
CEO, Synthasite