⭐ Introducing Ethereum Studio
At this time we’re excited to launch v 1.0 of Ethereum Studio: a easy web-based IDE, which lives proper on ethereum.org
Some of the constant solutions we’ve obtained for Ethereum.org is to enhance the developer expertise. Whereas the location pointed customers to in depth third-party assets, it lacked a compelling path that will pull a developer in the direction of instantly making an attempt out Ethereum.
Ethereum Studio’s objective is to let builders get began constructing on Ethereum inside minutes, with as little friction as potential. Studio lets customers:
- Write and take a look at good contracts within the browser
- Join good contracts to a front-end net app
- Bootstrap their app with 3 template tutorials
- Share your challenge in a single click on
Together with the Studio itself, we’ve added a brand new “Getting Started” web page to the Developer part. This can be a extra newbie pleasant touchdown web page for builders, which introduces the Studio and supplies hyperlinks to different web-based studying experiences.
The objective of Studio isn’t to switch or compete with the in depth web-based studying experiences already obtainable for Ethereum. As an alternative, we wish Studio to be a simple first-step to interact a developer and get them hooked earlier than directing them to different assets, instruments, or occasions to proceed their journey into Ethereum.
To construct Ethereum Studio, we collaborated with Superblocks. We will’t thank the Superblocks workforce sufficient for the arduous work they’ve put into this device. We additionally need to thank many others who made this challenge potential: Andreas Wallendahl, Chris Ward, Robbie Bent, Martin Tellechea, and the many individuals who offered suggestions and solutions.
Ethereum Studio is open-source, and all the code is obtainable here. We’ll be persevering with to enhance the Studio over time, and have already got many enhancements deliberate for v 1.1. If you wish to get entangled, learn to contribute here! Should you simply need to present suggestions, please fill out this short survey.
🦄 Persona reorganization
Over the previous couple of months, we’ve been making an attempt to higher perceive the consumer personas of Ethereum.org. This implies analyzing key phrase search quantity, web site visitors, contemplating the consumer personas utilized by comparable web sites, and speaking to our customers.
This course of has lead us to simplify the top-level group of Ethereum.org, to be organized round three core personas:
- People: particular person ETH holders, customers, and neighborhood members
- Builders: builders, or anybody with a technical curiosity in Ethereum
- Enterprise: enterprises, companies, and different organizations who need to perceive how Ethereum can profit them.
This straightforward group captures practically all the consumer journeys we thought of in our analysis. For now, that is merely a re-organization of present content material, however provides us a easy basis to increase the location over time.
Within the subsequent few weeks, we’ll even be publishing our analysis that lead us to this re-organization, within the hopes that it’s helpful to the neighborhood, and that others can level out methods we will enhance.
🛠 Bounties for ethereum.org improvement
Two weeks in the past, we put up 10 bounties on Gitcoin to see if we might use the neighborhood’s assist to hurry improvement of the web site. To date, it’s been an enormous success – we obtained submissions for each bounty, and nearly all of these modifications have already been built-in into the location. Thanks to everybody who submitted work!
Anticipate to see extra bounties for Ethereum.org sooner or later – regulate the @ethdotorg twitter account, the place we’ll submit them after they go up.
🎯 What’s subsequent?
This is a preview of our priorities for the subsequent few weeks:
- 🎨 Web site-wide design enhancements & tweaks, introduction of a constant design system used for brand new pages
- 👨👩👦👦 New assets to introduce individuals to the Ethereum neighborhood
- 🔍 Sharing our persona-research
- 🗣️ Translating Third-party assets
- ✨ Far more!