⭐ Introducing Ethereum Studio
Today we are excited to release version 1.0 of ethereal study: a simple web-based IDE, found at ethereum.org
One of the most consistent suggestions we have received for Ethereum.org is to improve the developer experience. While the site directed users to extensive third-party resources, it lacked a compelling path that would attract a developer immediately. testing Ethereal.
The purpose of Ethereum Studio is to allow developers to start building Ethereum in a matter of minutes, with as little friction as possible. Studio allows users to:
- Write and test smart contracts in the browser
- Connect smart contracts to a front-end web application
- Bootstrap your app with 3 template tutorials
- Share your project in one click
Along with the Studio itself, we’ve added a new “Starting” page to the Developer section. This is a more developer-friendly landing page, introducing Studio and providing links to other web-based learning experiences.
Studio is not intended to replace or compete with the extensive web-based learning experiences already available for Ethereum. Instead, we want Studio to be an easy first step to engage a developer and hook them before directing them to other resources, tools, or events to continue their Ethereum journey.
To build Ethereum Studio, we collaborated with superblocks. We cannot thank the Superblocks team enough for the hard work they have put into this tool. We also want to thank many other people who made this project possible: Andreas Wallendahl, Chris Ward, Robbie Bent, Martin Tellechea, and the many people who provided feedback and suggestions.
Ethereum Studio is open source and all code is available here. We will continue to improve Studio over time, and already have many improvements planned for version 1.1. If you want to get involved, learn how to contribute here! If you just want to provide feedback, please complete this short survey.
🦄 People rearrangement
Over the past few months, we have been trying to better understand the users of Ethereum.org. This means analyzing search volume for keywords, looking at site traffic, considering user personas used by comparable websites, and talking to our users.
This process has led us to simplify the top-level organization of Ethereum.org, so that it is organized around three main people:
- Individuals: individual ETH holders, users and community members
- Developers: developers or anyone with a technical interest in Ethereum
- Company: companies, businesses and other organizations who want to understand how Ethereum can benefit them.
This simple organization captures almost all of the user journeys we considered in our research. For now, this is just a reorganization of the existing content, but it gives us a simple foundation to expand the site over time.
In the coming weeks, we’ll also be posting our research that led to this reorganization, in the hope that it will be useful to the community and that others can point out ways we can improve.
🛠 Rewards for ethereum.org development
Two weeks ago, we put 10 rewards in Gitcoin to see if we could use the help of the community to speed up the development of the website. So far it’s been a huge success: we’re getting submissions for every reward, and most of these changes have already been integrated into the site. Thanks to everyone who submitted work!
Expect to see more rewards for Ethereum.org in the future – keep an eye out for updates. @ethdotorg Twitter account, where we will post them when they go up.
🎯 What’s next?
Here’s a preview of our priorities for the next few weeks:
- 🎨 Site-wide layout improvements and tweaks, introduction of a consistent layout system used for new pages
- 👨👩👦👦 New resources to introduce people to the Ethereum community
- 🔍 Sharing our personal research
- 🗣️ Translate third-party resources
- ✨ Much more!
