The Roadmap

December 22, 2012 - The Maker on it's way to the Mac App Store...

The Maker has been actively developed and improved since 2006. Actually it has been in existence much longer than that. In all those years it has improved in so many ways. It got easier to use, faster and much more powerful.

Time to take it one step further...

October 15, 2011 - the maker 1.5 - Lots of new features!

Some of the interesting new features:

• Support for linked (external) projects, they can be on a USB stick, webDAV or in your Dropbox (if mounted to your file system)
• Session data saved, this means, files that are open when the maker is closed will be reopened at the next start of the maker
  • (UI settings are saved at the end of the session for window sizes and pane positions)
• Find / replace in current file and across project.
• Improved code style.
• Run Python scripts from within the maker with an interactive shell.
• Export project as template.
• Add any file.
• Use Markdown in maker parts (.content, .foot, .body, .nav)
• Other improvements, performance tweeks and bug fixes.

Download link: the-maker 1.5

We hope you have a pleasant experience using the maker. If you have any feedback you are welcome to contact us at:

December 27, 2009 - the maker 1.0 - Feature complete!

This is a feature complete and stable release. Since 0.9 we have rewritten about 80 percent of the code base and have put a lot of effort into making this application more user friendly. However, this is not just an improved version, it also has many new features.

Here are just a few:

• editing of multiple files across projects with tabs
• improved Tree view for files
• simplified and intuitive interface
• much faster
• delete folders and files from the FTP browser
• and a whole lot more...

download 1.0 here

We hope you have a pleasant experience using the maker. If you have any feedback you are welcome to contact us at

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August 28, 2008 - the maker 0.9

This is a feature complete but still beta release. New features will are:

• On Windows after the project has been loaded the tree view is at the root of the list
• BUGFIX [ 1966477 ] Todays date maker marker not working
• BUGFIX [ 1970442 ] when lastProject.txt not found app crashes
• BUGFIX [ 1967219 ] renaming binary files causes crash
• other minor Bugfixes
• default remote folders
• better menu logic
• 'zebra' tables in some dialogs
• Auto Complete in the Editor
• Printing via Browser
• One more template

Download and enjoy ! Please feel free to sent comments or bug reports.

May 8, 2008 - the maker 0.8

What is new in the maker 0.8

• the scrollkeeper; when switching between items the maker remembers the cursor position
• after publish the cursor does stay in the edited position
• Bulk import
• imported files are queued for upload
• only enter a new filename for an imported file when a file with the same
name already exists
• Sync Images With Server
• Added all CSS selectors to the insert menu
• Added Resources for learing HTML and CSS to the Help menu
• Switch to UTF-8 as project encoding
• many BugFixes

Download and enjoy ! Please feel free to sent comments or bug reports.

April 3, 2008 - the maker 0.79

New features:

• improved distribution table tools
• complete set of HTML tags
• search
• support for all filetypes
• and a lot more...

November 14, 2007 - Update: maker 0.72

This is a BUGFIX release. In the earlier version there have been the following issues:

• some files in the white template have been named in uppercase thus causing problems on Linux
• if an error occured and the cursor was busy (clock) it remained in that state
• when file creation was cancelled there were errors
• better Linux support, fallback code for older wxPython versions
• when a dynamic was saved it was overwriting the last .content file in the list - FIXED
• fixed bug in FTPBrowser. If the directory that was selected was deeper than one level an incorrect path had been returned

Download and enjoy ! Please feel free to sent comments or bug reports.

November 7, 2007 - Update: maker 0.73

Just a few days after the release of the 0.7 this is now 0.71.
This is a BUGFIX release. In the earlier version there have been the following issues:

• importing files did not work
• the color picker tool did not return a value
• imported files where always treated as binary

Download and enjoy ! Please feel free to sent comments or bug reports.

November 4, 2007 - the maker 0.7

new features will be:
- when a new file is created it is automatically selected in the tree
- more templates for projects
- Upload Queue ! change as many files as you like and then upload them at once. No "make all" needed.
- Change a .dynamic and the maker is only publishing the affected files
- introducing: maker markers

August 25, 2007 - the maker 0.6.93 update

- Fixed bug in RSS Creation. Before the fix the markup became invalid
- Changed code in source markers. Since the comment was above the Doctype declaration.
IE could not handle it. Misinterpreting the whole markup
- Finally fixed bug in Image import
- Error Messages in the log window are displayed with in a new line each

August 23, 2007 - the maker 0.6.92 update

Due to some strange behavior in WxPython 2.8.4.2 , we went back to 2.8.4.0

0.6.91 / August 15, 2007

BUGFIXES

0.6.9 / August 14, 2007

New features:

• improved make all
• renamable items
• some binary files managable (pdf, zip, mov ... )
• more supported filetypes (php, xml, html ... )
• a lot of GUI improvements
• default distribution settings
• file templates
• improved code styling in the editor
• comments in the html sources
• .head mode - for editing only the .head section of .content files
• and a lot more...

0.6.2 / March 19, 2007

- the Image tool is able to keep image proportions at scaling
- single click item selection in the items list
- much better user interaction
- many bugfixes

0.6 / February 10, 2007

- a GUI makeover
- preview for CSS
- work offline ! - no permanent internet connection required
- File references are completed on upload
- multiple rss feeds
- multiple style sheets
- support for javascript / ajax
- support for cgi
- support for txt files (.htaccess, robots.txt ...)
- dynamic contents
- shortcuts for XHTML and CSS
- a brand new editing tool for the distribution settings

You may request a feature for 0.6 by following this link ! At this time it is too late to submit feature requests for this upcoming version.

0.5.1 / September 12, 2006

BUGFIX release
- pagetool bug fixed (if target dir is / or .)
- insert Tag bug fixed
- making the core more independent from the GUI
- there was a bug on OS X with the STC.Cut Method I worked around it by using .Clear
please have a look at wxWidgets Bug Tracker if you want to know more. It is a wxWidgets BUG
- serverlink retries to upload files if connection breaks
- Fixed Font sizes
- window.Destoroy() Bugs fixed

0.5 / July 28, 2006

- speed improvements
- better RSS support
- upload any file
- bugfixes
- Keyboard shotcuts
- GUI improvements
- log window inside GUI
- Error handler
- and a lot more...

0.4.92 / Mai 23, 2006

Mai 23, 2006: the road starts here. The maker has been released!