I thought that it might be a good idea to give you a little bit of the history behind Webify and also let you know some of the future plans for Webify.

History::
If you are like me and have to use an image editor on a regular basis you understand that many times opening up Photoshop is more trouble than it is worth. Especially, if all you are wanting to do is a few small edits and thats it. Many of the image editors have so many bells and whistles on them that a user gets lost in the interface or frustrated at the way things seem to be over complicated.

So around a year an a half ago I began looking for a really small image editor that would allow me to quickly make some edits to an image and save it for the web in a minimal amount of clicks. I found many neat programs, some free and other were moderately priced. Some were better than others and a couple were really, really cool in the features they offered, but all of them fell short of what I was looking for.

This led me to do some research as to how to go about developing my own application. I looked at several different programming languages and finally decided on REALbasic because of it's short learning curve and robust features.

I had to ask a lot of questions and had to get a lot of help but within a few months Webify was born.

After the first beta was sent out I received a lot of feedback asking for certain features to be added or certain bugs to be fixed. This meant that I would have to go back to the drawing board on a couple of occasions to find the right solution. The result turned out to be a really cool and useful application that I am pretty proud of especially for a version 1 release.

Future::
After having built the first version using REALbasic, I made a decision to port the application to Objective C and use Xcode. This was a difficult decision because it meant that I would have to hire some outside help in order for me to get all of the functionality that the REALbasic version has. But I also knew that if Webify was to have a long life span then I needed to change programming languages.

Webify version 1.5 will be built in Objective C and will retain all of the features of Webify 1, plus it will contain several new and exciting features. Work on version 1.5 has already begun and is progressing rather quickly.

Webify version 2.0 is going to blow you away. It will also see the addition of several more features as well as "batch" processing.

I do not want to give too much away so I will just say to keep your eyes peeled because the end of the Summer will likely be an exciting time at Mudbug Software.