We’ve been hard at work over the last forthnight adding some great new features to Creately – Online Diagramming and Design. We hope you enjoy this release as much as we did getting it out to you. A brand new Open & Create Diagrams Dialog Our original dialog was fine for new users but we found it got harder to use as your collection of diagrams grew. We also found there was no way to [...]

We had some users asking how they could add more images and graphics to their Creately diagrams, so I put together a quick diagram with Creately to show off how you can add more graphics to Creately diagrams.

First we brought you URL shortening for your published diagrams, and now we’ve introduced a 1-Click button that makes it easy to share your published diagrams and designs on Twitter. We Love Twitter We love Twitter, and we know you do too. So the next time you create a beautiful Mockup you want to share with your other designers, or are working on an open-source project and want to share your UML and DB designs [...]

With the bug fixes that went into production last week, we introduced a whole new bunch of Smart Shapes to help make your UML diagrams faster and easier than ever before to draw and share in Creately. You can check out the new features for online UML and Class Diagrams on our site, but I’d like to give you a quick run through of all the new UML capabilities. More UML Shapes Many more smart [...]

History URL shortening has been around for ages. For example tinyurl.com has been around since 2002, which while not that long is ages on Internet. With the recent popularity of Twitter and its artificial limit of 140 characters for the tweets has really moved URL shortening from a specialty to a mainstream activity with a very useful purpose. Traditionally URL shortening services have generated a random and unique code which is placed after their own [...]