Blesta treats mountains like so much dirt! –I have a framed copy of a magazine ad in my office that has a similar slogan. First 2 people to send me a picture of that ad get a free owned license of Blesta! sales -at- blesta.com UPDATE! Both licenses have now been claimed. Thanks to all who participated!

When can I rock out with v3?

Let’s give it some context. v3 is a complete, ground-up rewrite. All of the back-end, and all of the front-end. It’s completely object-oriented. It’s powerful, and intuitive, and customizable, and developer friendly. It has a ton of new and improved features, many of which we couldn’t even consider adding to the old codebase, due to inherent limitations.

It’s coming together really, really well. I’m excited, it looks amazing. It’s the best thing we’ve ever done. But, we still have some work to do, we’re not quite there yet. We have internal goals and deadlines, and we have a pretty good idea when v3 will be ready.. but the last thing we want to do is take shortcuts and fall short of the standard we’ve set to make a deadline. So, we’re keeping those internals confidential for the time being, they are afterall subject to change, if it favors a better product.

But, I promise to keep you in the loop as much as I can. As we get closer and closer we’ll start streaming out information more quickly. I really cannot wait to get v3 in your hands.

Alright, now it’s time for some dessert.

This is a (scaled down, I know) screenshot of the Client Overview page. While this is an entirely new and improved design, it still feels like Blesta, and most actions are performed here just like 2.x. As soon as you get your hands on v3, you’ll feel right at home. Completely rewritten, yes. New and improved features, yes.. but it’s still Blesta, it feels like Blesta.

You may have noticed that the colors have changed slightly. The default color scheme is going to be this shade of blue, the official Blesta blue. Bolder.

One thing I don’t believe I’ve mentioned is how dynamic the new interface is. Staff can customize their experience with drag-n-drop elements that we call widgets. Changes are persistent, so when you come back those windows will be just where you left them. We realize different staff members have different responsibilities, so it only makes sense that the interface should adjust.

That reminds me.. we’ve talked a little bit about color themes. Here’s a few that will likely be shipping with Blesta. Them aren’t images either, these colors are made up purely of glorious hex codes which means a limit of 16 million colors. I call it gradient magic. Whoa I feel like I just lined up some ipods.

I’ll have more for you soon. Thanks for reading, the future looks great!