Codescheme Tech

There is talk of Weebly, discussed here and here. It’s something between a CMS and netvibes at the moment. And it has the magic acronym…

Weebly’s blog creator deploys the same remarkably simple AJAX-based, drag-and-drop interface that makes their website design tool so easy to use.

Yes, my skepticism of AJAX remains undimmed.

The principle existed 8 years ago, (it always does have a prior existence) with bravenet etc - either the technology has improved sufficiently, - Youtube embedded, RSS, XML-RPC - in which case it is an idea whose time has come, or this middle ground is always going to be squeezed in terms of flexibility vs simplicity.

Sitekreator, if I don’t do it a disservice, hasn’t taken the web by storm. How many of these services are simply transitional along the path of a user’s HTML/site admin proficiency? It’s also bang in the path of Blogger’s juggernaut progress towards a more flexible layout editing process.

When creating blog pages, you get the extra option of a “Blog Sidebar,” from which you can drag Twitter, Flickr and del.icio.us Linkrolls widgets. You can add any widget you want by dragging and dropping an HTML box and pasting the widget’s code.

Oh, and if the quoted figure of partial funding of $650,000 to launch this kind of enterprise has some basis in fact, I must be out of touch… some angels are clearly required round here.

And all that said - good luck to weebly, work deserves success.