It’s taken quite an effort to get everything up and ready to go, but just in time for Christmas we’re ready to announce the availability of Ephox LiveWorks! The grand plan is to give our clients and the public in general better insight into what’s going on in the Ephox labs and give them the ability to shape the company’s direction.

The site is starting off small, with just a few neat little plug-ins for EditLive!1 available and a mailing list, but I’m really excited about it. Ephox’s products are used by nearly all the big name CMS vendors, so the direction our products takes has a huge impact on the CMS industry as a whole. Getting more people involved with that process is going to make a big difference. We’re hoping to ramp up the site over time, following what user’s want, but we’re thinking along the lines of early access releases, providing integrations into open source systems and eventually weekly builds of our products to let our clients take advantage of new functionality as soon as possible.

If you’re interested in content contribution, editors or the CMS market in general, I’d suggest you at least lurk on the mailing list to keep abreast of what’s happening. It will take a fair while for it all to ramp up so I certainly don’t expect to see much activity but I can see a lot of potential and I’m really excited.

Check it out and let me know what you think.

1 – like the one that lets me use these seriously cool footnotes…↩