NudgePad

NudgePad let's you build websites in your browser. We are actively developing NudgePad and are breaking things a little too much. For that we apologize, but we want to get it right for version 1.0. A release date for version 1.0 has not yet been finalized, but will be sometime in 2013.

Try it

Try it now at http://nudgepad.com

What Can I Build with NudgePad?

Blogs
Single Page Websites
Clickable Prototypes
Personal Homepages
White Boards
Small Business Websites
Mobile Sites
FirefoxOS Apps
Infographics
Todo Lists
AB Testing
APIs
eCards
Forms
Presentations
Visualizations
Experiments
Simple Games
Surveys
Content Management Systems
eCommerce Stores
MindMaps
Memes

Who is NudgePad for?

Creatives who have lots of ideas for websites
Designers who want to design in the browser
Developers who want to collaborate with designers and users
Novices who want to be able to make changes to their sites
Students who want to build, share, and learn online
Teachers who want an easy tool for creating lessons
Organization leaders who want to enable more collaboration and sharing among their members
Sys admins who want a better shared hosting tool

Live NudgePad Powered Sites

Blog: http://breckyunits.com/
Small Business Site: http://octaviachambliss.com/
Book Site: http://generationatheistbook.com/
Personal Homepage: http://benzulauf.com/

Requirements

Nudgepad currently works (occasionally) on Mac OS X and Ubuntu.

NudgePad requires node v0.8.23 (does NOT currently work reliably with node v0.10.x due to some proxy/websocket issues).

It also requires mon, which can easily be installed like so:

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/visionmedia/mon.git
cd mon
sudo make install

Occasionally you'll need to update your environment's PATH variable to make sure that the node_modules/.bin folder is included. For example, you may need to add this to your .bash_profile or .bashrc:

PATH=$PATH:~/node_modules/.bin

NudgePad consists of a control panel Express app running on port 3000, user sites which run on ports 3001 - 8000, and an http-proxy app which sits in front of all of those on port 80. You can access the control panel app by going to http://localhost/, or if it's running on a production server by going to http://YOURHOSTNAME/. The panel app let's you instantly create more sites that have a domain name like *.localhost on localhost, or *.YOURHOSTNAME on a production server. If you are not running on localhost, be sure to update the hostname of your machine to match the machine's DNS name, and you'll want to create a CNAME or A Record in your DNS to point *.YOURHOSTNAME to the machine's IP or DNS.

Installing

If you'd like to host Nudgepad on your owner server or development machine, follow the steps below.

npm install nudgepad
np start
# Go to http://YOUR_MACHINE_HOSTNAME

All the code for Nudgepad will be stored in the node_modules/nudgepad folder. All user, temp, and log data will be written to /nudgepad/.

Installing Development Version

If you'd like to contribute to NudgePad development, follow these steps:

cd ~
git clone git@github.com:nudgepad/nudgepad.git
cd nudgepad
make install
npd start
# Go to http://localhost

Uninstalling

The following will remove the npm version:

npm uninstall nudgepad

To remove the development version (and ALL user data) run:

npd uninstall

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