Although Edicy comes with plenty of premade designs, it also supports custom designs made by anyone (we like to stay open and not close you guys in to a proprietary system). So if I with almost no knowledge of Edicy's code and only a faint idea about coding in general could make a custom page run on Edicy, anyone could do it.

The rules were simple - I had a static HTML page with some CSS and images and I could only use the short documentation Priit had put together just a few days ago (we will make this document public in a bit). I started my trusty old stopwatch and off we went!

When modifying the HTML, you simply add small tags to where you want the content to appear. Editable content box? {% content %} Analytics code? {{ site.analytics }}. Yes. It is really that easy. I got almost everything done in under 15 minutes.



At this point my menu was not working as I expected so I had to cry for help. It turned out to be a minor glitch in the documentation and in five minutes everything was running smoothly. After removing relative image and stylesheets paths and replacing them with familiar {{ image_path }} and {{ stylesheets_path }} the whole project clocked in at 25 minutes.

So in 25 minutes and with no big hassles I turned my boring static HTML into a dynamic site running on Edicy. Pretty good for a designer, eh?

* The site I used for this experiment can be found here.It's a small info-site for a drama-festival and a lot of content is still missing but for some reason I was not trusted to test my skills on our big corporate clients (yet)