Beware! The Re-design and Architecture Astronauts have taken over.

Posted on 2 years, 2 months

Firstly, apologies if you have arrived here through your feed reader which has suddenly been flooded with every blog post made by hedgehog lab. We just deployed a massive re-design and re-code of our main website, which meant that a few things were bound to go awry. This should be fixed now, so please feel free to "Mark all as read" and move on.

Moving onto the good news, as you can see, we have taken on-board nearly a year's worth of feedback all our loyal customers have provided and spent some long sleepless nights to build and deploy our brand spanking new website. It's also a great opportunity for me to provide an update on our products and summarise our new website.

Website re-design and re-write

Most software companies are guilty of spending far too much time re-designing (lesser crime) and re-writing (greater crime) their website and internal tools every so often instead of focusing on, err, writing software for customers.

Lest you think we fell into this trap, our site re-design and re-write is actually in response to overwhelming customer feedback. Our previous site had a good enough design and a basic set of tools but there were constant complaints about both small details like font size, and big important details like issues with license generation and account management tools. We listened patiently for over a year and decided now was the right time to introduce an update. Here are some key points about this update,

One of the biggest overhaul has been in the visual/brand side of things. We have ditched our "far-too-corporate" look and adopted a visual style that we feel reflects our personality and ethics.
The product pages and content have been completely overhauled, giving a better experience when looking for information and making it easier to evaluate your options.
There is more information about hedgehog lab now, and more importantly, the much requested Team page and team information.
The license and account management section has been completely re-designed and re-written. It is now even quicker to buy and manage your product licenses from hedgehog lab.

We have a lot more exciting support-related changes and more content coming in the next few months, so make sure you keep an eye on the website.

fixx

This has been months in the making but fixx 1.9 is finally here and it brings with it a wealth of new features and updates which have been requested for a long while. Check out the Release Notes for more info and grab your copy. Here are a few big highlights from 1.9,

You can now delete projects you don't need completely from fixx.
The free user limit has been increased to 3 from 1. You can now have 3 valid users in the system without paying a penny!
fixx can now speak Spanish & German.
You can perform a 1-click migration from Unfuddle.

solomon

The past 2 months have been full steam ahead with solomon development. We have made massive progress with functionality (which included 2 re-writes of the contacts screen) but we are finally happy with the experience and UI. The beta is very close and although I don't want to give away a lot, expect a blog post and a sneak peek into both the solomon web and iPhone app soon.