Jeff sits down with Dan Wood the creator of Sandvox, a dynamic and powerful website development tool that is perfect for creating a great class website.
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About Karelia
Founded by Dan Wood and Terrence Talbot, Karelia Software focuses on developing simple, elegant, and intuitive Macintosh software that fills a need in the Mac community.
Our first product, Watson®, was a groundbreaking web utility, winner of both a MacWorld “Eddy” and the Apple Design Award for “Most Innovative Application.” Our current flagship product is Sandvox® 2, a pioneering website development application that won the runner-up prize for the coveted Apple Design Award for Best Mac OS X User Experience. Karelia developed Sandvox after hearing from friends and family — all too often — that creating a website was just too difficult or time-intensive using products already on the market. Sandvox addresses that need by making website creation for the Mac that’s as easy to use as the Mac.
Featured Guest
Dan Wood
A native of California now based in the San Francisco Bay area, Dan Wood is the father of two children, prefers bicycles to cars, and is involved in community groups. His commitments to simplicity, sustainability, and fairness inform his software development philosophy, as does his belief that communication—and making communication easier for more people—is vital to a more informed, active, and productive society.
Before forming Karelia Software in 2001, Dan honed his software development skills in several contexts, including “classic” Macintosh and Java development at Bear River Associates and Electronic Arts.
Dan can be found on twitter: @danwood.
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Description:
Website creation for the Mac, that's as easy to use as the Mac. Sandvox lets anybody, even non-experts, create slick modern websites, fast. Named to Mac App Store's Best of 2012 at v2.7, v2.8 adds built-in optimization for Retina graphics, two new website designs, and more social sharing tools. Only Sandvox — winner of an Apple Design Award — features a user experience that lets you combine and spotlight your own drag-and-drop content while automatically creating a modern, feature-rich, standards-compliant website as you go. See your website come alive before your eyes! When ready, just upload your site to your favorite host directly from within Sandvox. It's that easy. “Sandvox 2 is an excellent visual website-design tool for individuals and businesses that need to create attractive sites without having to learn the HTML/CSS/JavaScript that goes into it. Its superior user experience and feature set makes Sandvox a worthy alternative to Apple's soon-to-be-obsolete iWeb. EXCELLENT ◼ ◼ ◼ ◼ ½ ” — Mac|Life TOP FEATURES • Choose from dozens of stylish site designs, including two brand new designs, Hydrogen and Kryptonite • Over 20 different, customizable content objects help you build the site of your dreams • Easily add text, images, or movies • Showcase your images with Photo Grids and lightbox-style Galleries, automatically optimized for Retina displays • Super easy blogging, with built-in archiving • Instantly add connections to Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and Google+ • Syndicate your blog or podcast and offer easy-to-grab RSS feeds • Incorporate content from other websites such as weather and news headlines • Show selected products from Amazon.com • Feature YouTube videos • Include a Contact Form for feedback • Automatically generate a sitemap • Comment support via Disqus, IntenseDebate and Facebook Comments • Insert custom features with Raw HTML “ ◼ ◼ ◼ ◼ ” — MacNN · “ ◼ ◼ ◼ ◼ ½ ” — SVMMac · “ ◼ ◼ ◼ ◼ ½ ” — Cult of Mac EVEN MORE POWER • iMedia Browser — Effortlessly browse your Pictures folder, iPhoto, Aperture, Lightroom, and Flickr. Grab movies from iPhoto and iTunes. Build a podcast. The iMedia Browser puts your resources at your fingertips. • Raw HTML Objects — Directly place HTML, JavaScript, PHP, or other inserted web code, such as embed codes provided by other sites. • Advanced Customization — Code injection, custom CSS, built-in jQuery support and a brand new Cocoa…
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Release Notes:
Sandvox 2.8 can publish high-resolution images for Retina displays, includes two new designs, and offers more social sharing capabilities, including support for Pinterest and LinkedIn.
SANDVOX 2.8.9
• Fixes a bug which stopped Graphical Text appearing within Sandvox
• Addresses an issue pasting or dragging some pages containing images
• Localization updates
SANDVOX 2.8
Retina Optimization
Sandvox 2.8 can automatically take advantage of high-resolution source images to optimize for display on Retina screen devices, whenever they are available. Controls for this have been added to the Appearance tab of the Document Inspector and Metrics Inspector:
• Dimensions are now measured in points instead of pixels (Retina displays contain 4x as many pixels as ‘regular’ resolution displays)
• If an image will appear at less than full quality (on either regular or Retina displays), a warning message will appear
• The Size button now acts as a toggle between ‘Retina’ & ‘regular’ quality, preventing over-sizing of images
When Retina support is turned on, Sandvox makes high-resolution images “retina-ready” so that people who view your website on Retina screens will see images that are optimized for their screens. This includes:
• Image objects, including logos
• Banners (your custom banners & built-in banners for *most* Designs)
• Photo Grid (including Gallery), Slide Show, and Titles & Summaries indexes
• Amazon Lists
• Badges & icons: RSS and Sandvox badges, and AIM Status objects (unfortunately not possible for other IM services at present)
Designs
• Two new included Designs: Hydrogen and Kryptonite. You can choose to use either a left-side Sidebar or a right-side Sidebar with Hydrogen or Kryptonite.
Social & Sharing
• Sharing Bar — A new Sharing Bar object can be added to the end of any page, bringing together all of our supported Sharing buttons in a neat, convenient row.
• Sharing buttons — including the Sharing Bar — are now organized into their own Sharing section of the Objects toolbar item
• Pinterest & LinkedIn — Support for buttons for both Pinterest & LinkedIn have been added. These buttons can be placed on any page
• Twitter — The Twitter button now features additional button types/options, including Hashtag and Follow
• Facebook — The Facebook button now supports many other configurations, including Like Box and Activity Feed
Objects
• Google Maps are now automatically localized into your site's language, where supported
• Contact Form has a new “Send from karelia.com” checkbox, that, if enabled, will improve the chances that visitors' messages will get to your inbox, instead of being filtered to your 'junk' folder as SPAM.
• Amazon objects can now open links in a new window
Publishing
• When publishing media, Sandvox now replaces any spaces in filenames with hyphens instead of underscores
• Podcast RSS feeds now include images suitable for iTunes listings. The image for each episode can be previewed and changed using the Appearance tab of the Page inspector
• The “Legacy (ConnectionKit)” FTP system has been removed
Other
• Improved responsiveness while large documents are saving
• Links to pages which have since been deleted are automatically unlinked
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Website creation for the Mac, that's as easy to use as the Mac. Sandvox lets anybody, even non-experts, create slick modern websites, fast. Named to Mac App Store's Best of 2012 at v2.7, v2.8 adds built-in optimization for Retina graphics, two new website designs, and more social sharing tools. Only Sandvox — winner of an Apple Design Award — features a user experience that lets you combine and spotlight your own drag-and-drop content while automatically creating a modern, feature-rich, standards-compliant website as you go. See your website come alive before your eyes! When ready, just upload your site to your favorite host directly from within Sandvox. It's that easy. “Sandvox 2 is an excellent visual website-design tool for individuals and businesses that need to create attractive sites without having to learn the HTML/CSS/JavaScript that goes into it. Its superior user experience and feature set makes Sandvox a worthy alternative to Apple's soon-to-be-obsolete iWeb. EXCELLENT ◼ ◼ ◼ ◼ ½ ” — Mac|Life TOP FEATURES • Choose from dozens of stylish site designs, including two brand new designs, Hydrogen and Kryptonite • Over 20 different, customizable content objects help you build the site of your dreams • Easily add text, images, or movies • Showcase your images with Photo Grids and lightbox-style Galleries, automatically optimized for Retina displays • Super easy blogging, with built-in archiving • Instantly add connections to Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and Google+ • Syndicate your blog or podcast and offer easy-to-grab RSS feeds • Incorporate content from other websites such as weather and news headlines • Show selected products from Amazon.com • Feature YouTube videos • Include a Contact Form for feedback • Automatically generate a sitemap • Comment support via Disqus, IntenseDebate and Facebook Comments • Insert custom features with Raw HTML “ ◼ ◼ ◼ ◼ ” — MacNN · “ ◼ ◼ ◼ ◼ ½ ” — SVMMac · “ ◼ ◼ ◼ ◼ ½ ” — Cult of Mac EVEN MORE POWER • iMedia Browser — Effortlessly browse your Pictures folder, iPhoto, Aperture, Lightroom, and Flickr. Grab movies from iPhoto and iTunes. Build a podcast. The iMedia Browser puts your resources at your fingertips. • Raw HTML Objects — Directly place HTML, JavaScript, PHP, or other inserted web code, such as embed codes provided by other sites. • Advanced Customization — Code injection, custom CSS, built-in jQuery support and a brand new Cocoa…… Read more