[stewartlynch8]

Thanks for this advice. I'm currently in the process or re-doing the website and this is really useful feedback. Hopefully a lot of these issues have already been addressed. I'll be uploading the new site in a day or two.

The sudden activity on this site kind of took me by surprise, I wasn't quite ready for the big reveal.

[DrewADesign]

Great, best of luck! I'm not available for hire at the moment, but one new subscription service who I replaced a DIY landing page for saw a 3000% (yes, that's three zeroes) increase in conversions within a week... and I only probably billed them for 17 hours of work (given, it wasn't the first work I'd done for them.) No shady crap. No dark patterns. The site became clearer, simpler, much easier for customers to parse quickly, and a lot cleaner to look at. They could see what they were getting quickly and then acted more quickly.

[DrewADesign]

(oh, and I'm not trying to pat myself on the back, here-- I'm mainly emphasizing the value of skileld design, generally.)

[sam0x17]

Just to add on here, I routinely scan the top navbar for an item saying "Screenshots" when I arrive at sites like this and if I don't find something like that I'm like wtf and leave

[stewartlynch8]

I can understand screenshots for things such as games, but for text editors, one text editor screenshot looks pretty much the same as the next. I don't think it is usual for software like this to have a sreenshots page. What sort of things are you looking for here? The new website will have gifs on the front page showing some of the features.

[DrewADesign]

NGL this response doesn't give me much confidence in the UI design.

Back when I used to be a chef, my most important tool was a Chef's knife. The Wusthoff and Henkles and rando knockoff knives might look pretty similar, but I could tell just by looking at it if the spine side of the tang was a bit too short and would give my index finger blisters, for example. It didn't have to be perfect, but it had to work for me.

As a full-time developer, I was working with text editors just as many hours per day as I worked with my chef's knife. Using a text editor that doesn't meld with the way I do things is incredibly frustrating. I do most of my dev work in Unreal Engine these days so a nice, performant editor that was as smooth as other paid editors would get my greenbacks.

[stewartlynch8]

I'm exactly the same, which is why I take UI design so seriously. I literally wrote my own editor because no text editor was exactly how I wanted it. Having said that, it should feel familiar to anyone used to Visual Studio or VS Code.

I'll get some screenshots added to the new website.

[stewartlynch8]

Screenshots added https://10xeditor.com/screenshots.htm

[svlasov]

For example I would be interested to see a debug mode with expandable variables and call stack, git changes highlight, flexible split layout with tabs support, toolbars if any, terminal integration, compilation log, file tree navigation, syntax highlight on non-trivial code, popups with symbol info, scrollbars minimap, markdown rendering.

[sam0x17]

Presumably some screenshots showing off how crisp the editor looks, font faces, color themes, auto completion working, how things are set up visually, is there a built-in terminal, etc etc, a picture is a thousand words with this kind of thing and IDEs are highly visual