Edicy
Encyclopedia
Edicy is a tool for creating websites online. It's built for small businesses globally and focuses on users with little or no experience with computers. The light-weight user interface offers drag and drop editing experience (WYSIWYG
) and makes it one of the fastest tools to build websites with. Edicy features rich text and photo editing, picture galleries, form builder and supports multi-language site structure.
Edicy is compatible with all the major browsers—Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome. Major competitors of Edicy are Weebly
, Yola
, Jimdo
, Webnode
, Squarespace
, Webs
, Google Sites
.
Company behind Edicy was founded by designer Tõnu Runnel, developer Priit Haamer, a Skype team lead Märt Kelder and a Skype co-founder and former Chief Engineer, Toivo Annus.
Edicy was founded in October 2007. First private, closed beta was launched on March 2008. Edicy is publicly available since August 2008.
WYSIWYG
WYSIWYG is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get. The term is used in computing to describe a system in which content displayed onscreen during editing appears in a form closely corresponding to its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product...
) and makes it one of the fastest tools to build websites with. Edicy features rich text and photo editing, picture galleries, form builder and supports multi-language site structure.
Edicy is compatible with all the major browsers—Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome. Major competitors of Edicy are Weebly
Weebly
Weebly is an online, free widget-based Web site creator, funded by micro-seed fund Y Combinator. It uses a widget-style format, allowing users to create pages with only a few clicks by dragging and dropping different page elements onto a page and filling in the content...
, Yola
Yola (webhost)
Yola is a website builder and website hosting company headquartered in San Francisco. People without programming skills and a limited knowledge of HTML and graphic design can make web sites using Yola. Its drag and drop system allows users to incorporate widgets without knowing HTML. Yola also...
, Jimdo
Jimdo
Jimdo is a WYSIWYG web hosting service. Jimdo offers JimdoFree, a free web hosting service, JimdoPro and JimdoBusiness, both premium services. Jimdo is operated by Jimdo GmbH, a Hamburg, Germany-based company...
, Webnode
Webnode
Webnode is an online Website Builder system developed by Westcom, s.r.o, a company based in Brno, Czech Republic. It can be compared with other online systems like Weebly....
, Squarespace
Squarespace
Squarespace is a web publishing company that sells a software publishing platform and file server service to individuals and businesses, providing them the tools and assistance to create and maintain well-designed websites...
, Webs
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet...
, Google Sites
Google Sites
Google Sites is a structured wiki- and web page-creation tool offered by Google as part of the Google Apps Productivity suite.- History :Google Sites started out as JotSpot, the name and sole product of a software company that offered enterprise social software. It was targeted mainly at...
.
Company behind Edicy was founded by designer Tõnu Runnel, developer Priit Haamer, a Skype team lead Märt Kelder and a Skype co-founder and former Chief Engineer, Toivo Annus.
Edicy was founded in October 2007. First private, closed beta was launched on March 2008. Edicy is publicly available since August 2008.
Developer features
There are no limitations on which design can be used with website. Edicy has open design API with its customized templating language based on LiquidMarkup.Awards and nominations
- Edicy received the gold prize at Estonian Internet Awards competition
- Nominee for startup competition winner at Le Web finals 2008
Available languages
- English
- Estonian
- Simplified Chinese
- Russian
- Spanish
- French
- German
- Portuguese
- Norwegian
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Italian
- Greek
- Finnish
- Dutch
- Polish