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Google Web Designer (2013)
- wbillingsley 10y agoIs this any relation to Pixate (which they sadly closed)?
- politician 10y agoIt looks like they are positioning this as an efficient way to create ad units, not entire websites. Maybe it should be called Google Ad Designer?
- stewartjarod 10y agoThis isn't new. Was there a significant update?
- stevebmark 10y agoAdobe Edge has already tried the HTML5 tooling route http://www.adobe.com/products/edge-animate.html http://www.adobe.com/products/edge-animate.html. I don't think they got much traction and essentially abandoned it. Curious if this offers anything different.
- rl3 10y agoThis appears to have more (or at least different) features than Edge, though I can't help but feel it's basically tracing the same path.
- j45 10y agoI wonder why Edge didn't uptake. Possibly licensing costs, or maybe the timing of it was a little earlier than where we are starting to build more immersive experiences with HTML5/JS and are starting to desire the use of tooling to making it easier.
- symlinkk 10y agowhat GUI toolkit is this made in?
- rublev 10y agoFlash.
- keyle 10y agoInteresting product. There is a huge demand for it and I'm not sure what Adobe ended up doing and if it works well. Interesting these products that come so late to the party, to fix the gap left by Flash (it had timeline animations etc. like so) for html5.
- sandGorgon 10y ago+1000 Cross platform including Linux. I hope this tool gets traction and goes beyond html5 to mobile design as well.
- fbreduc 10y agothe day google became microsoft for real this time... webdesigner aka frontpage
- helb 10y agoThey first released it over 3 years ago. And it seems to be something like "HTML5 ad-centric Flash" rather than the new Frontpage.
- johnhenry 10y agoJust wanted to point out that this has been out for quite some time with little updates. If you click "Download Web Designer Beta", in the top-right corner, you'll see a note saying that the page hasn't been modified since April, 2014. Nonetheless, it could be a cool product -- if only Google decides to move forward with it.
- kyrra 10y agoThat's the date of the TOS. It looks like this product has been around a while. The latest build is dated Nov 16, 2016 as far as I can tell (they don't date the release notes). The first release goes back to Oct 1, 2013. release notes: https://support.google.com/webdesigner/answer/7218073?hl=en&ref_topic=6350071 https://support.google.com/webdesigner/answer/7218073?hl=en&... HN post when it launched: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6470426 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6470426
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- aeharding 10y ago(2013)
- themodelplumber 10y agoI just checked out the included templates. At least the first 20-30 are all ad templates, one of which is a full-screen mobile interstitial! That's the same element that just got an SEO finger wag from the Google Webmaster Central Blog[0]. _Just_ as the list of templates started getting interesting with some Youtube slider-thing integration, it came to an end. So yeah, this seems to be aimed at folks who need to build ads quickly and don't want to have to be HTML5 pros. With that said, there's a "my templates" feature so maybe you can use it to maintain your Star Trek fan website, or business portfolio website, too. I'd just hesitate to recommend that in general, as my experience with GUI HTML5 builders has been that they aren't the best IDEs or text editors and I really quickly start to need one in order to be efficient. [0] https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2016/08/helping-users-easily-access-content-on.html https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2016/08/helping-users-easi...
- elmigranto 10y ago> That's the same element that just got an SEO finger wag They are not going to wag themselves, so it only makes sense to include Google's ad template into Google's editor for creating Google Ads :) (I guess half of this comment that's not a joke is it looks like internal tool gone public for mostly PR opportunity.)
- FussyZeus 10y agoReminds me of how the Google Mobile checker thing from way back would actually flag Google's home page has having too much crap stuffed in it. Do as we say, not as we do, always a credible way to run a business.
- ozaark 10y agoGoogle encourages mobile full page ads through Adsense. Seriously, it's just called 'Page-level ads/Vignette ads' - "Mobile full-screen ads that appear between page loads on your site and can be easily dismissed by your users."[1] Certainly don't want anyone else getting better ad positioning than Google, no sir. That's a penalty. [1] https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/6245304?hl=en https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/6245304?hl=en
- avecfromage 10y agoLooks interesting! From the website, it is difficult to say how this software is different to existing solutions like for example rocketcake. I guess it is more useful for creating HTML ads? Also, what if google decides to shut this down suddenly someday? Will it be easy to switch a project to a different software then?
- vcool07 10y agoCould any expert shed any information on why we lack a professional front-end WYSIWYG kind of editor for the web ? I remember tools like dreamweaver/frontpage existed a long time ago, but don't hear about them anymore. Is it something that's too hard to make or is it just that the market doesn't exist ?
- boxcardavin 10y agoI'd also love an informed answer about this.
- proyb2 10y agoNamo Webeditor was popular along with many tools, only backend services need lot of effort to maintain. Thee is one professional web design editor who patented it.
- devoply 10y agoMy thinking is that they were replaced by dynamic sites based on PHP like WordPress, which initially people were doing template conversions for but eventually they switched to using themes... then we have had a bit of a redux with static site generators, but those are all hobbyist efforts. Dreamweaver still exists, it's just that no one makes those sorts of sites on Dreamweaver any more. There is no market for it. All the developers that might do static frontends code by hand or use a library like Bootstrap or a theme like a WordPress theme. So there is not really much room for a tool like Dreamweaver in the landscape of web design. It's all about modifying existing things to make them fit the problem.
- OscarTheGrinch 10y agoYeah, also being able to inspect live code in the browser drank dreamweaver's milkshake.
- udkl 10y agoThere is https://pinegrow.com/ https://pinegrow.com/ & to some extent Adobe Muse .... but I agree with the sentiment of there not being more options of WYSIWYG editors to choose from.
- Yhippa 10y agoI'm on mobile so I can't use the app but I'm hoping for a spiritual successor to HyperCard. Looks like there's a lot of hand holding being done however.
- waterflame 10y agoI've been using this tool since a year now to quickly build HTML5 banners for DoubleClick. 1- the software was way too buggy than it is now, yet, it still is, and updates aren't that frequent. 2- all objects are positioned absolute, even though you can choose to create a responsive banner. 3- for me, it's perfect for ads, and handles animations pretty well (it uses CSS animations) 4- you can always access the generated code and modify it once you understand how it works. 5- I would never use it to create anything other than ads. 6- the UI sucks, especially when the biggest part of the process is adding assets, modifying their properties or settings their CSS, and you constantly have to resize the accordion drawers.
- dagge 10y agoWould be interesting to hear your thoughts on https://tweenui.com/animator https://tweenui.com/animator
- jdub 10y ago"The 90s are back, baby!"
- frik 10y agoAny news? Is it a new version. I have it installed for at least a year.
- vivekd 10y agoWhere is the need for this product? People who know about computers will probably just use the very easy to learn HTML and CSS code and people who don't know computers will likely use wix or wordpress or some similar alternative. I wonder where this product will fit?
- vonklaus 10y ago> Where is the need for this product? An intuitive easy to use WYSIWYG editor is a highly sought afterand demanded product category. Squarespace costs money and is actually (for me) a pretty bad user exp. Google probably can deliver on this because they are SEO. Even good editors were not semantic. I havent tried this product, but if it is halfway decent it will find market share. If it is perfect it could replace wordpress. I am pretty competent as a developer and I would use (based on my understanding from the link) this product rather than battle css or compile sass. Plus I can edit the code. On top of top teir engineering, google has control of SEO & pagerank so maybe they can win where orhers hadnt. No brainer for them.
- camus2 10y agoIt looks like an HTML ad creator, not a "website designer".
- tonyhb 10y agoThis has been out for around 5 years. I remember installing this at an ad agency I worked at when HTML5 ads were barely a thing. At this point they probably have a small team working on it for sake of their ad division but people here shouldn't into this too much.
- t3ra 10y agoSo its not targeted towards making "pages" more towards just making HTML5 banners. I guess just trying to replace flash banners with HTML5 ones The templates are all for banners and the tools for making say a "div" are not there.
- TekMol 10y agoI thought, "ok let's try this..." hovered over the green button and then WOAH! "Download Web Designer Beta" wtf.. DOWNLOAD? Are we back in the 90s?
- aluhut 10y agoDoes anyone know if it installs that Google Updater Service also on Win?
- aluhut 10y agoNevermind...crapshit installed itself or left some installer behind even with me cancelling the installation. I hate google software...
- bertjk 10y agoHmm looks kind of like Celtra's AdCreator[0]. I wonder which came first? Has anyone used both who can compare the two? [0] https://www.celtra.com/adcreator https://www.celtra.com/adcreator
- sansubr 10y agoThis is really cool. Landing pages could be built faster with this now..
- gigatexal 10y agoWhat's old is new again: hello dreamweaver just this time from google.
- hmoghnie 10y agoI wonder when will they shut it down.
- namaemuta 10y agoFor a moment I thought that google had designed a software for app designs like Sketch or Adobe XD. None of them works for Linux so I was pretty excited until I realised what it was really :(
- ourcat 10y agoHaving lived through the birth (and death) of HotDog / Dreamweaver / Frontpage etc. my biggest concern here is "HTML soup". My next biggest concern is that these tools don't really teach people much about how the web works and also that marketer-types tend to over-use these tools with their new-found 'skills' and build over-bloated sites. HTML is easy.
- ff10 10y agoTIL that Dreamweaver is still being marketed.
- hkdobrev 10y agoI was wondering if this is the same software which was announced years ago and it was still in beta or it's a new software that's in beta. I've found I've personally added the record to Homebrew Cask in 2013 - https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/commit/429e430a622420a9952ddddf8b48b32a315f1126 https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/commit/429e430a622...
- nnd 10y agoOn a related note: anyone knows a good guide to catch up with the recent frontend design/development trends?
- baboun 10y agoGoogle Dreamweaver
- mochidusk 10y agoI'm currently building a browser-based WYSIWYG to make book covers. I've tried SVG and Canvas but it's terrible for implementing multi-line text. Trying to add kerning, tracking was almost impossible. Not sure if anyone's heard of Readymag[0], but I'm really impressed with their editor - and it has excellent typography tools and UI. Anyway, what I've noticed is that now many people are abandoning their own websites & blogs in favor of a centralized service such as Medium, Instagram, etc.. I remember a few years ago there were alot of fashion bloggers and now they're all on Instagram, updating daily. People have lost interest in designing, building, maintaining their own sites because it's too much work for the average person. Not to mention traffic going to the individual sites are neglible compared to social media. When posting a photo on your own site gets 10 visitors, but that same photo garners hundreds of likes on somebody else's platform, then you're going to be spending time on that platform. [0] http://readymag.com http://readymag.com
- Raphmedia 10y agoHa, Google Web [Ads] Designer! I tried it. Works really well but who works on ads on a daily basis?
- SnowingXIV 10y agoI wish things like this existed but not for front end, but for handling databases. I want to be able to send values from my static sites into a database and then from there be able to perform hooks and actions from said database. This all being done securely. I need form handling and tracking.
- mikebay 10y agoGoogle news again.. jihaa! No day without google news. It's odd how nobody is actually reporting about censorship and privacy issues in same rate.