Announcing Viviti: Build websites with no code and no hassle (we hope!)

It's obvious there has been a tremendous amount of development time invested in the project. Looks great, feels good. There are many site builders out there, so I think execution counts for a lot.<p>Two quick suggestions:<p>1) Get a demo video up on the homepage. Show a person what they can do.<p>2) Get a demo video up after a person has signed up. If my dad were using this, he could walk through the wizard up to the point where he arrives at his site. Then he'd get lost as to what he should click on next to accomplish whatever task is in his head.

Viviti, our beloved new CMS/sitebuilder, has been under development for several years now. The CMS market is crowded, but we're going for a level of simplicity and flexibility that hasn't been achieved by any of the solutions out there right now.<p>Feedback is always welcome!

A code-free experience is presumably for non-geeks, right?<p>Your signup form has a field called "hostname". Nitpicky, but... How many non-geeks have the vaguest idea wtf that means?

The tool itself is wonderful. I'd switch my blog from wordpress to it, if it had analytics, and I knew you'd be around a year from now.<p>Minor thing on signup:<p>Password: ancmthdnvu Password Strength: You're kidding, right?<p>Password: 123456 Password Strength: Admirable

There are certainly many site builders out there. The vast majority are painful to use. Especially for the type of user I think this aims at. This one is very nicely done. Both the concept (very self explanatory) &#38; the execution are very good. I had a fairly thorough run-through &#38; I am very impressed.<p>I think I might have a good use for one of these, but I'd need to see if it can be used reasonably over a dial-up connection. Speed seemed to be a bit of an issue for me. Both the 'back end' &#38; the 'front end'.<p>This seems like a great blogging platform. I can't say that I know what you are after here. But I can say that the need I come across without really finding a solution that I'm thrilled with is more towards the traditional website end of the blob/site spectrum.<p>The basic difference (I think) is the navigation structure. Handling a navigation with 10-50 links reasonably easily (submenu items, dynamically created sibling pages &#38; the like) &#38; having some tools to create a 'home page' with a different.

1. Show more features, or show them more in-depth. (It doesn't need to be a video, but it could be.) Unless I'm really interested, I'm not going to sign up for something just to find out what it can do. Or maybe create a shared demo account with a public password, if collaboration is one of your features.<p>2. I'm wondering what this has to do with Panic's Coda, since your logo looks eerily similar to theirs, from the wavy light-green leaf right down to the water droplets and veins.

Well done, this is very good.<p>I'm guessing you guys are Canadian as well from the cbc feed in the examples? Nice to see some good tech coming our of the great white north! Sometimes I feel all alone up here!

Uhm...having a hard time finding an about page (both company about and people about).<p>I love reading about the creators of a service :)

Fantastic editing experience, well done.

Very good first impression. Very attractive site design - simple and elegant - and I like your tasty use of sIFR. You've clearly lavished care and attention on it and it shows.<p>The weary exasperation of the password strength checker is a nice touch too :)

Check out type room. pretty similar, but works on non hosted sites as well.<p>Also, Sythasite is very close in a lot of ways....check them out also.<p>I am sure you have already seen these, but they are 2 outstanding competitors. Any answer to them?

The signup page offers to use OpenID, apparently in place of giving you an email address; then when I get back it still requires my email. It's not clear why I should have bothered to sign in with OpenID then.

The layout is ruined in a narrow browser window. Obviously you never gave this much thought. Why not?<p>Sorry to sound so 'critical' but you asked for it. I hate websites like this even more than websites that make me scroll horizontally, because at least horizontal scrolling lets me see the page properly<p>Nothing works to fix your site except a wider browser window ... :(

This is pretty slick... I've been putting off creating a site for some side projects. This may be just the ticket!<p>My question/feature request: Is there a way to share edit access with more than one user? This would be especially useful for the blogging features, to allow multiple contributors.

As others have said, awesome site. Seems like you've done just about everything right.<p>I'm curious how you came up with your site's Terms of Service, which seem well done and comprehensive. Did a lawyer come up with that or did you come up with it yourselves?

Minor bugfix: your 'terms of service' link in the footer goes to /about/privacy instead of (I assume) /about/tos.

You might consider some security on the sign up form. Otherwise this is pretty dope.

What value do you have over your competitors, like Weebly and Freewebs?

Can I ask a question? What led? Design or development?

one quick question, do you allow custom domain names?

You guys really have an excellent product here. Extremely easy to use, great features and looks great too.<p>I'm sure you will get lots of users. What type of pricing will you be looking at?<p>I think you could work on optimising the page updates. Simply swapping the image in the header resulted in a full page reload which added up to almost 1mb! This makes the site seem (slightly)slow and makes it completely inaccessible to dial up users (yes they're still out there! hehe).