Raven Blog, Back in Action

Ok ok, so there was a huge (enormous) delay in getting back to this blog. My apologies to everyone for that. One of the major hurdles to contributing regularly to this blog was a technical problem we had with our host. But now we have that issue resolved, and now everything actually works! (thanks Nick!)

The big news, of course, is that Zoundry Raven has finally entered Public Beta status. We still have a ton of stuff to do, but we felt that it was stable enough to start building a real user base. Thanks very much to all of those Alpha users out there who gave us some great feedback. We haven't acted on all of it yet, of course, but we really are tracking it all.

Two, hopefully short, additions to the product are currently in the works. The first is a "Portable" version of Raven. This shouldn't be too hard to implement, since we don't make use of the Windows registry for anything other than installation and uninstallation. I'm looking into now, and the only trouble spot seems to be templates (although we have all sorts of other problems with templates that need to be addressed). The second addition is a Translation UI. Zoundry Blog Writer had a built-in dialog/window that would facilitate translating it into other languages. We have had quite a few requests for something similar in Raven, so we are getting to work on that. Again, it will be a pretty simple UI, so it shouldn't take too long to get that going.

Thanks to everyone out there using the product. We really hope that Raven is the foundation for a great piece of software and a premier tool for bloggers.

I will do my best to update this blog more frequently in the future. Now that we have our technical difficulties worked out, I think I might succeed. Wish me luck.