⭐ Introducing Ethereum Studio
Right now 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 ideas we’ve obtained for Ethereum.org is to enhance the developer expertise. Whereas the positioning pointed customers to in depth third-party assets, it lacked a compelling path that might pull a developer in the direction of instantly attempting 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 internet app
- Bootstrap their app with 3 template tutorials
- Share your mission in a single click on
Together with the Studio itself, we’ve added a brand new “Getting Began” web page to the Developer part. This can be a extra newbie pleasant touchdown web page for builders, which introduces the Studio and gives hyperlinks to different web-based studying experiences.
The objective of Studio isn’t to exchange or compete with the in depth web-based studying experiences already accessible for Ethereum. As a substitute, we wish Studio to be a straightforward 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 crew sufficient for the exhausting work they’ve put into this device. We additionally wish to thank many others who made this mission potential: Andreas Wallendahl, Chris Ward, Robbie Bent, Martin Tellechea, and the many individuals who supplied suggestions and ideas.
Ethereum Studio is open-source, and the entire code is out there right 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 right here! When you simply wish to present suggestions, please fill out this quick survey.
🦄 Persona reorganization
Over the previous few months, we’ve been attempting to raised perceive the person personas of Ethereum.org. This implies analyzing key phrase search quantity, website visitors, contemplating the person 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 wish to perceive how Ethereum can profit them.
This straightforward group captures practically the entire person journeys we thought of in our analysis. For now, that is merely a re-organization of current content material, however provides us a easy basis to increase the positioning 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. Thus far, it’s been an enormous success – we obtained submissions for each bounty, and the vast majority of these adjustments have already been built-in into the positioning. Thanks to everybody who submitted work!
Count on to see extra bounties for Ethereum.org sooner or later – regulate the @ethdotorg twitter account, the place we’ll publish them after they go up.
🎯 What’s subsequent?
Here is a preview of our priorities for the following few weeks:
- 🎨 Website-wide design enhancements & tweaks, introduction of a constant design system used for brand new pages
- 👨👩👦👦 New assets to introduce folks to the Ethereum neighborhood
- 🔍 Sharing our persona-research
- 🗣️ Translating Third-party assets
- ✨ Rather more!