My current idea of this is:
- Add "Built with Webstudio" badge to components and make it easy to insert it anywhere like a regular component
- If account is on a free plan, add a check if the badge has been added to the home page and disallow publishing if it wasn't.
Open to your ideas
I would love to add this badge
Would love to options like: Built with Webstudio, Proudly Built with Webstudio etc.
I understand that it's nice to have it showing up.
When speaking for myself, I feel it takes too much attention. Almost that it becomes the main CTA to click on for visitors, while it's mostly not related to the content.
Maybe something more subtle.
Something that could help, is to include Made with Webstudio in the templates that you provide in the marketplace, such as in the craft footers. And what Fedir mentioned, to include words such as "Proudly" is I think a smart move.
Currently I have this as my footer, from one of the templates. I like it.
Maybe when people hover over, that it shows Webstudio in a tooltip and it links to webstudio site.
That'd be a more subtle approach, maybe too sublte, don't know about that.
you can change the design and position however you want
that is already the case for most templates, its just integrated into those templates as part of them, not as separate component
I changed mine slightly - so I used the existing box, but moved it to my footer, centered it, and added my affiliate link - clearly labeled, of course (and I have a paid account)
(Even if I didn't have an aff link - I would have done this. Others might feel differently about it though, but I see it's 100% valid to have it on all free sites)
You're a business, you have to make money...that's...erm...kinda the point! Example: (Convert)Kit - if you have a free account, you have Kit branding on all your emails. If you have a paid account - you can choose whether to have it branded or not and AFAIK it'll use your aff link.
Although something like this on a free version might be a smidge overkill (I do love it though!)
A likely unpopular take …
Web design software is the only type of software I know where advertising for the tool used may appear in the frontend of published products. There is nothing comparable anywhere else. Not in image / video / audio editing, not in any 3D modelling tool, not even in Figma or other prototyping tools, including free versions.
Such badges are not the rule, they are in fact the rare exception. Companies of most software genres have to use other strategies to grow.
Personally I don't think that these badges work for growth. Whenever I see an outstanding photo, I admire the photographer and possibly the person who edited the shot. But I don't ask whether they used Canon or Sony, Photoshop or Affinity.
When I see a great web-project, I admire the text authors, designers, coders and those who brought all this together. I don't ever feel the urge to look up the platform.
As great as software (and the achievements of its makers) may be ... in released work the focus of interest shifts towards those who output work with these tools.
@Holger def. also some of the reasons why we didn't do it before, I felt like end-user won't care, but lately I had a revealation - designers look up what other designers use, especially on portfolio sites.
Customers maybe less so but there is still a decent amount of them that could be curious enough and even if they won't start using it, brand awareness becomes a thing and once they see the same logo in an offering of a designer, they will feel comfortable.
Yes, I clearly see a place for tool-nerdery in forums and portfolio sites.
Yet, as such badges are so uncommon, I will always assume either affiliation or free (hobby) usage. There must be stronger channels for brand-awareness.
Probably, it all depends what stage the product is in. Adobe doesn't need that, figma too, but we need to get everything we can to promote the brand awareness.
I am not a marketer but what about ads? Also I think YouTube can be improved in terms of production.
I can tell more about it, but would be the wrong place to discuss this.
Here I just wanted to know how community feels about the badge, especially if its enforced on free sites upon publishing
User could still change it's appearance and position
And I agree that designers love to see which platform others are using
I agree @Oleg Isonen ... this honestly is the least to expect from completely free sites.
Maybe also add an exceptionally low pricing to remove the badge for free sites (so next to free)
But even apps like Loom - if you use their free version, you can't remove their branding (and they've just been acquired by Atlassian). Not saying they're as big as Adobe - but there are companies out there who do this, it's not a super rare thing. (Granted, I'm an OBM (Online Business Manager) not a developer (as is proven by my questions in Discord) so I'm in a LOT of apps!)
I'm a Pro user. I love Webstudio and I promote it on my website.
Regarding badges, I understand and share your basic point of view, @Oleg Isonen . I'm not a fan of self-promotion. It's often the first thing you see on applications.
In the case of Webstudio, I think finding a happy medium could be interesting:
- Mandatory use of the Webstudio badge on the page
- But not in "fixed" mode, as that would harm the user experience for non-designers
- So, put it in the footer of the pages
Here's my opinion
like I mentioned, user can move it and change it
yeah, best decision in my opinion
but I would keep your design "Mad with webstudio", because I'm afraid that some people will change their design in order to hide it....
some will do that for sure
