Breezi Blog

I’d like to address some of the questions we’ve gotten about the workflow of designers.

We get that many of you are designers that do work on behalf of your clients and that the ownership of the site changes after the site is published. We also understand that a good tool would deal with allowing you to create as many sites as you’d like, similar to how Photoshop allows you to create as many images/psds as you’d like.

Multisite for Smaller # of SItes: In the next month or two, we have no plans on allowing standard breezi single site accounts to be able to create multiple sites from one account. We do have another edition of Breezi which allows you to manage many sites but that’s better for users that want to create more than 20 sites. It’s actually perfect for them. If you want more information on that, please click here.

In the midterm (2-3 months), we are planning on releasing the ability for you to link your Breezi accounts and be able to login to each of them from one another.

Pricing Expectations: The pricing for such a product will be different when we plan to release it. It will not be all the sites that you can make for $9/mo.

Ownership: We’re also going to address the issue of site ownership with a feature called Snapshots. Snapshots will be like a Breezi compatible full export of your site that you can import into any other Breezi account. This will allow you to “hand over” a site to a client if you don’t want to just create an account and then change the username and password.

You’re completely ok to use PlaceIt-generated-images for commercial use. You just need to attribute PlaceIt if the work is publicly displayed. We’re ok with any attribution so long as you’re clearly not trying to be an asshole and just burying it. Doesn’t have to be large or very prominent either. Anything along the lines of mentioning PlaceIt is fine. We’d obviously really appreciate a link back.

Here is the license. If you have more questions, email us here.

If you’d like to contribute a photo to be used as a PlaceIt environment, please submit it here.

At Breezi we use a lot of different methods to test our platform. We’ve still got a long way to go to get better coverage but one of the tools that we’ve recently started using more and more is called Sikuli. A short summary of Sikuli: Sikuli runs on the OS level and uses images to function. Sikuli becomes very useful when you have highly interactive applications or have visual identification issues that are difficult to confirm with tools like Selenium.

So I thought it would be interesting for us to release this so anyone that wants to get a demo of Breezi without lifting a finger could do so by just running this Sikuli test.

So here’s the mac version file. And here’s how to use it:

1. Chrome should not have the download
2. Developer tools should be closed

And here the Windows version. Instructions:

1. Have Chrome on main monitor
2. Don’t have chrome browser on full size (maximized)
3. Windows task bar should not be on top of screen (position)
4. Chrome should be opened and visible (on Windows, Sikuli has problems opening processes and bring focus to it)

Note: you also need to download Sikuli which you can grab from here.

Download 27″ iMac PSD

Keeping on with the Christmas gifts!

Fully scalable photoshop vector shapes that make up the new Apple 27″ iMac in two angles, from left and right. We hope you guys enjoy this cool free PSD!

Released under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

Just a small freebie for those awesome designers out there. 4 Simple tileable patterns in a .pat file: Marker Felt, Dotted Paper, Subtle Grunge and Dark Blueprint, have fun.

Released under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

I watched the entire thing in one sitting. Such a great project about the fundamentals of story telling. It really shows how good advertising is still about the same things it was 50 years ago. Great stories told by those who want to tell a story.

We are in a Giving Mood!

We have put together the White Olive Collection Icon freebie for you, released under Creative Commons license BY. This collection of 50 icons are a great resource for adding the finishing touches to your design project. This handcrafted set is available as PSD and AI source files.

New FONT Sent Included

We have also included this minimal icon set as a font set. You can now add this to your font catalog with a tff file that we have included in the zip file. Enjoy!

We’ve pushed over 30 new features in these past 2 months. Now it’s time to focus on the two most important features. Speed improvements and ability to undo/redo. Why didn’t we do it earlier? Mainly because we were still putting in major pieces of the platform until a few weeks ago. We’ve finally reached that point where we understand all the components that make up the core Breezi experience.

Undo / Redo

It’s the most requested feature since we started Breezi. I just wanted to tell you all that we have started working on it now and we plan on finishing before the end of the year. We heard you loud and clear and we’re sorry we didn’t do it earlier!

Update! Undo is live!

Speed

We’re focusing on two major areas. First is to not refresh the editor when you visit new pages and to utilize LocalStorage for storing the page data so we don’t have to travel to the server as often as we do. These two improvements in addition to a strong focus of getting rid of our memory leaks will help us dramatically improve the speed for you.

Thank you!

PS - Visit the roadmap page and put your email there to get an update on when it will be available