Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Wed Nov 30 11:38:18 CST 2011
It is almost a badge of honour for programming geeks to have a lean and boring site. The attitude is that the site was hard enough to write it should be hard enough use. The trouble is that many of the geeks see no reason for all that wimpy fancy stuff, if it works that is good enough. Many of these guys have absolute no artist or sales abilities, at all and it really shows. Of course, they are blissfully unaware that a crudgy site makes their product seem just as cheesy as their web site and they loss 90 percent of their potential business because of it. A word of wisdom. If you are selling anything on the web and you are not an artist, do yourself a big favour and get a real web designer and artist to put your web UI together and you will be amazed at the respect and additional sales you get because of it. Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Doug Steele Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 9:09 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Tech Republic covers PowerBasic I just spent a few minutes reading the interview and looking at their website. They may have a good product, but the site is AWFUL. Multiple bright colours, cheesy fonts, lots of exclamation marks. It's not easy to find out exactly what products they have and how they're priced. I bet they'd have a ton more customers if they fixed it up - it's the kind of site that I would just click away from automatically if I stumbled on it. Doug On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 4:43 AM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>wrote: > > A few of you may be vaguely aware that I occassionally use PowerBasic :-) > > You do? I never realized! ;) > > John W. Colby > Colby Consulting > > Reality is what refuses to go away > when you do not believe in it > > > On 11/29/2011 5:03 PM, Stuart McLachlan wrote: > >> A few of you may be vaguely aware that I occassionally use PowerBasic :-) >> >> Here's an interview with the founder, Bob Zale on Tech Republic >> >> http://goo.gl/KtZIE >> >> >> -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/**mailman/listinfo/accessd<http://databaseadviso rs.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd> > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.**com<http://www.databaseadvisors.com> > -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com