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Create live websites just like in a graphic editor
Kevin William David
Graphite — Create live websites just like in a graphic editor
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Graphite Space is a free online website builder carefully crafted with web designers’ best interests in mind. Use familiar graphic editor tools to create professional grade web pages and publish them online without working with HTML, CSS or JavaScript code.
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wyel
Really promising! It's intuitive enough that, as a deisnger, I'm already making progress without actual tutorials. I'm wondering, is there a way to add videos like on the Graphite landing page?
Viktor Kadnikov
@wyel Thank you for your comment, we’re extremely happy to hear it!🙏 At this stage, you can add videos on your web page using the ‘code’ widget – be it a YouTube or Vimeo video, or something you hosted on your own resource. As for the near future, we want to make a separate Video element that will allow you to upload videos to our hosting and support the tag.
Eric Fettner
Looks amazing and feels very intuitive, congrats to the team! Quick question - do you have plans to include e-commerce integrations?
Viktor Kadnikov
@ericfettner Thank you for your kind words, Eric, I'm happy you liked our product! Indeed, we do have plans to gradually open up Graphite to various audiences, and not just designers. E-commerce is definitely one of the prospects that we're looking at. To put some details in – first off, we're committed to covering all the basic needs by introducing headless cms integration. And from there, we'll move on introducing e-commerce specific features.
Harish Kotra
I'm a big advocate of products that don't require a trial, a big learning curve and what you've created is perfect for people who want a quick website and for designers to really create things on their own. Would love to know if you are going to bring in bootstrap components like accordions, toggles, etc., soon? What's next for this product?
Viktor Kadnikov
@harishkotra Many thanks for your comment! 🙌 Indeed, we aim to make our product as easy and accessible to our users, while also providing them with every tool necessary. Yes, we definitely have plans to expand the number of our core components. This is one of the priority development tasks we have for the nearest future. If you would like some more details, I'm more than happy to share a brief preview: – New website animation options – Cross-element interaction functionality – show/hide element etc. – Sections library – UI enhancements and performance improvements – Visual components and headless CMS integration
Harish Kotra
@followsummer Amazing! I'll add this to my content calendar and see what I can build to inspire others to use Graphite.space :) Good luck, Viktor!
Larry D. Perkins
Sterling work! Congratulations to you and your team.
Oleg Pavlov
@perkins_l Thanks!!)
Viktor Kadnikov
@perkins_l Thank you for your support! 🙌
Jury Alyavdin
Looks impressive! Good job guys
Viktor Kadnikov
@flipsorry Thanks a lot for appreciation! 🙂
Ruben Wolff
Great product, it looks quite easy to use, which is pretty cool when you're intimidated by code. I'm just wondering how it will fight against competitors like Wix
Viktor Kadnikov
@rubenwolff Hey Ruben! Thank you so much for your comment, I'm glad you like our product. As for 'fighting against competitors' – we actually appreciate the competition and diversity this market has to offer. Wix, for one, has done a lot of good for the industry, so it would be a shame to 'fight' them 😄 That is a valid concern, however, and I put my faith in the fact that, compared to the competition, Graphite emphasizes visual editing, comfort and design consistency. So if you're a designer, chances are you'll like Graphite better than any other tool out there. At least that's what we're counting on 🙂
Nonstop Rubel
It,s okay Usefully
Oleg Pavlov
Viktor Kadnikov
@nonstop_rubel Glad to hear that 🙂 thank you!
Nick Hladush
Hey! Nice product! What about a domain name?
Viktor Kadnikov
@nick_newoldstamp Hi! Appreciate the support! 🙌 Once you've published your web site using the 'Publish' button, you can then add a custom domain to it by following the instructions provided in the domain set up menu. Alternatively, you can save the web site you created in Graphite as HTML/CSS files and upload them to any hosting platform of your choice, following the instructions of your hosting service provider.
Denis Danilov
That's awesome! How complex websites can I create? Is it possible to create an e-commerce, an online course service, and things like that?
Viktor Kadnikov
@danilov_den Glad to hear that! 👋 As for your question – even at this early stage, you can already create landing pages and fairly simple multi-page web sites in Graphite, as well as add a little spice to your projects with powerful animation effects. As for the nearest future, we plan on introducing feature that would allow our users to design truly sophisticated web sites and manage huge amounts of content. Visual components and headless CMS integration are among those features.
Carlo Thissen
It looks incredibly slick and I'm already in love with the look & feel 🔥 On a more practical side - what's the biggest difference to tools like Webflow?
Viktor Kadnikov
@carlo_thissen Thank you for your support. As a designer, I am very happy to hear that! 🙌 At first, we really admire Webflow. This great tool helps to solve many problems and cure designer's pains. What really distinguishes Graphite is that our product emphasizes visual editing and creativity, whereas Webflow is more on the code-heavy side (in my humble opinion, at least): – Graphite does not have a steep learning curve, allowing you to create web sites with little to no knowledge of HTML and CSS. – Settings for element size, margins, padding etc., as well as the means to create a basic grid structure in Graphite are made as visual tools available for use right on the canvas. – Graphite can boast a much more concise, intuitive and user-friendly interface: we have fewer settings, toggles, buttons and levers than Webflow, while allowing you to create web pages of equal complexity. – Graphite offers a much more familiar approach to the design system and visualizing your ideas in general, and it lets you implement previously familiar tools and techniques that you'd normally use in your favorite graphic editor. Basically, if you're a designer and you prefer visual editing over working with code, we're pretty sure you'll have a lot of ‘oh yasss’ moments while exploring Graphite. At least that's what we’re hoping for!
Carlo Thissen
@followsummer thanks for the in-depths answer! Can definitely sign the learning curve issue with Webflow. Looking forward to dive deeper into Graphite and some other visual builders on the weekend. The first impression is great!
Viktor Kadnikov
@carlo_thissen Thanks a million! Can't wait to hear what you think 🙂
Oleg Pavlov
Here we go guys! Let's do this like absolute rockstars! ⭐
Viktor Kadnikov
@olepav Forward to the stars! 🚀
IULIIA
Really love your landing page and the overall style of your product. At least you got the design part right, congrats on a great launch!
Oleg Pavlov
Thank you, Iuliia!
Viktor Kadnikov
Thanks a million🎉 I'm very glad to hear appreciation, especially in a design field 🙂
Andrew Likhovidov
Good job! 👍
Oleg Pavlov
Thank you, Andrew!
Artem Morozov
You had me on the color palette. Great choice, Viktor, and happy hunting!
Oleg Pavlov
@artemdolor Thank you, Artem, for your support!)
Viktor Kadnikov
@artemdolor Glad to hear and thank you a lot for appreciation, Artem! 🙂
Dima
Keeping my fingers crossed for you and your project guys. Good effort, team!
Viktor Kadnikov
@dmitry_molchanov Thank you! Appreciate the support!
Oleg Pavlov
@dmitry_molchanov Yeah! Thanks!)
Ty Cooper ( ₿ )
How well do SEO and third-party javascript code integrate into websites built using your platform? What sets this project apart from Webflow, and Wordpress? This is an awesome project! I'll keep a close eye on it!
Viktor Kadnikov
@tycooperaow Thank you for your support! We currently support basic SEO functionality: traditional web page meta-tags, 'alt' and 'title' element attributes, and the option to specify a tag for an HTML element. But we plan on gradually expanding our SEO toolkit. Third-party JavaScript code integration can be done using the 'Code' element within the editor. In this case, the HTML/CSS will work right on the canvas, whereas the JS part will work on your web site once you've published it. We do have plans to make custom JS code work before publishing – first in the preview, and then in the editor workspace itself. The short version of what makes us different from Webflow is we're much more focused on visual tools. This also means providing a much more designer-oriented experience that is a lot closer to what you might be used to working in a graphic editor rather than a webdev IDE. As for the Wordpress comparison: Graphite gives you static web pages that load a lot faster and are much more stress-resistant. Also – the whole process of creating a landing page is a lot smoother and quicker (or so we aim to achieve) in our tool. To be fair though, when it comes to creating complex web sites and managing heaps of content, we don't have much on Wordpress yet. Fortunately, we do have a few updates in mind that will help us even the odds... in our favor 😄
Julia Gnedin
Great progress from jan 2021!
Viktor Kadnikov
@julia_gnedina Thank you for your support! 🙏
Oleg Pavlov
@julia_gnedina work hard! Many thanks!))
Anselm Tgs
Excellent of it kind
Oleg Pavlov
@anselm_tgs Thanks!)
Viktor Kadnikov
@anselm_tgs Thanks a lot for appreciation!
Do You Know That
It will definitely help the web developers
Viktor Kadnikov
@do_you_know_that Thank you for your support! 🙂
Justin Hunter
Great app! Love the landing page. And if you know about my history, then you’ll know I love the name Graphite :)
Viktor Kadnikov
@jehunter5811 Hi Justin! Nice to see you here, and a massive thank you for your kind words! But of course, we know your history. I just hope you don't mind us sharing the love for the word 'Graphite', it's just too good to resist it, right? 😄
Justin Hunter
@followsummer Of course not! Graphite is a fantastic name and I think it fits well for you. Graphite design and website = Graphite.
Viktor Kadnikov
@jehunter5811 Thank you for the kind words, Justin! They mean a lot to us coming from you. It will be tough to keep up with the high standard you've set for the 'Graphite' name, but we promise to do our best!