The first online tools

The main new feature in v0.7 is the arrival of a dedicated section for online tools.

The idea is simple: provide small tools that can be used immediately, without registration, without installation, and without unnecessary complexity. This first collection is still intentionally limited, but it already covers several common needs: music, text, security, randomness, dates, timers, and other small practical tools for everyday use.

Not every planned tool will necessarily be enabled from the start, and some of them may still be adjusted in the coming days or weeks. But the structure is now in place. AppErgo now has a space that can gradually welcome new tools, directly accessible from the website.

This is an important change, because the website starts becoming useful by itself. It no longer only tells the story of AppErgo’s creation: it already provides concrete features.

A section better integrated into the website

To support this new section, the main navigation also evolves. The menu now includes an “Online tools” tab, available from every page of the website. The tools therefore become a full section of AppErgo, at the same level as the other main parts of the site.

The homepage has also been updated with a new dedicated block. It highlights several tools, with quick access to a few representative examples, as well as a link to the full page.

The section also follows the visual logic already used in the FAQ: the four main colors from the AppErgo logo and name are used to distinguish the different tool categories. Each family has its own color, making the page easier to read while keeping visual consistency with the rest of the website.

The online tools are therefore not simply added to the site: they are integrated into its navigation, its homepage, and its visual identity.

More discreet improvements

v0.7 also brings several less visible improvements, but they are important for the structure of the website.

Some news items can now have a dedicated link. At first, news items were not really designed to point to specific pages, but the RSS feed made this limitation more obvious. Automatic links to homepage anchors were not always very relevant. A news item can now point more cleanly to an article, a tool, a software page, or another page of the website.

SEO has also been improved. Some pages did not yet have complete SEO information, and the new online tools now have their own titles, descriptions, and metadata. The goal remains simple: make pages clearer, better structured, and easier for search engines to understand.

The global sitemap has also been updated. Until now, the sitemap.xml file at the root of the website was still written manually, while the French and English sitemaps were generated automatically. v0.7 harmonizes this behavior: the global sitemap is now generated too, with an update date.

Another correction concerns images associated with fine-grained versions. The different files from the same version, such as an executable, an installer, or a ZIP archive, can now share common images and screenshots. Each file can still keep its own images when a specific screenshot is useful.

What comes next?

v0.4 allowed the website to go online for the first time. v0.5 laid cleaner foundations, especially in terms of design and internal architecture, then v0.6 consolidated them while adding new ones.

With v0.7, the main visible foundations of the website are now in place. v0.8 should continue this work by making it possible to add other sections to the website more cleanly. It should therefore complete AppErgo’s foundations, which are already almost finished.

For now, AppErgo mainly focuses on utilities, but the idea of exploring other areas had already been planned since v0.4. Some sections had even been considered at that stage, although they have not been enabled yet. v0.8 should therefore be used to open this possibility properly, without unnecessary duplication or quick fixes.

This version should also focus on bug management. The goal will be to better stabilize the display of reported bugs, both in the forge and on version pages. This part is important for what comes next, because future software will need a clear, readable, and consistent way to track known issues.

The real background stabilization should rather begin with v0.9. There will still be a lot of work before reaching a truly clean v1.0: lightening some templates, further factorizing the CSS, securing the few PHP pages still present in the frontend, and simplifying the administration interface. A first cleanup had already been done with v0.6, but the new features introduced in v0.7, and those planned for v0.8, will probably require another pass. Some recent implementations could not always rely on the CSS already in place. Some parts will therefore need to be revisited, further harmonized, and advanced options that are not really necessary anymore may be removed, in order to make the frontend more consistent and the admin clearer.

v0.8 could arrive fairly quickly, perhaps within one or two weeks, as it should mainly continue the work already started around website sections and bug management.

The next steps, however, will take more time. Even if v0.9 should already bring a lot of background cleanup, reaching a truly clean v1.0 will probably take several months. It would not be surprising if this step took around six months, especially since C++ development and future Windows applications should now take up most of the available time.

The future of AppErgo will also focus more on the tools themselves. Some JavaScript tools available online may become the basis for small standalone Windows applications: free, registration-free, secure, and usable offline.

The articles on the site should evolve in the same direction. After the first posts, which mostly looked like a development journal, future content should focus more on tools, software, and practical or technical topics with a more direct purpose.

Conclusion

With v0.7, AppErgo starts fulfilling its promise in a more concrete way.

The website no longer only presents a project: it now offers its first tools directly usable online.

Not everything is final yet, and this first collection will certainly continue to evolve. But the foundation is here: a dedicated section, adapted navigation, simple tools, free access, no registration, and a structure ready for what comes next.

AppErgo continues to move forward step by step, with the same idea from the beginning: building useful, accessible, and easy-to-use tools.