[AccessD] Tech Republic covers PowerBasic

Doug Steele dbdoug at gmail.com
Wed Nov 30 19:34:20 CST 2011


Good idea to pass on the criticism; hopefully he will take it as
constructive...

Doug

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Stuart McLachlan <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>wrote:

> No, anonymized as in -   Details which could identify individuals removed.
> i.e. without identifying you or  Doug or identifying what mailing list it
> was on.
>
> It was clearly from me.
>
> --
> Stuart
>
>
> On 30 Nov 2011 at 16:54, Jim Lawrence wrote:
>
> > I guess that means; anonymous...without your name. ;-)
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart
> McLachlan
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 1:55 PM
> > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Tech Republic covers PowerBasic
> >
> > Thanks for the feedback, I've passed it on (anonymized) to Bob Zale.
> >
> > --
> > Stuart
> >
> > On 30 Nov 2011 at 9:38, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> >
> > > 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
> > > >>
> > > >>
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