Re: dn.codegear.com

On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:59:42 +1100, insert name <nospam@nospam> wrote:

Nathaniel L. Walker wrote:

Of course, a point that most people don't get (where does this NG get
about 60% of its traffic?). Like I said in another thread, I will simply
not goto CGDN, the same I did with BDN. The website it very unintuitive;
almost to the point of primitive, poorly structured and hard to navigate,
IMO.(almost neongreen on the CodeGear site, hard on the eyes...), the >
fonts choices are horrible, and the semi-transparent menus
do not go well

You are being too harsh. It was made by a busy employee who had many
other tasks and had to be done to budget and in a short space of time.


And you know this, how?

They have an entire suite of application and web development tools,
and accompanying tools/frameworks (i.e. IntraWeb); they should be
able to come up with something better than that.

They probably did not have time to use their web tools.


Again, is this an unbased assumption?

http://www.freestandards.org/en/Developers
That's the Free Standards Group Linux Standard Base new "Developer
Network" site. It's nicely structure, with nonrepulsive colors and is very nicely
formatted.

It is not fair to compare CodeGear with a free volunteer run website.

Sites like that dont have to worry about cost since it is all done free
by volunteers. And many of the volunteers have a lot of time and are
often fairly talented.

I would think that a company with funding behind it would/should be
able to create a better site and I don't know that it isn't fair to
compare CodeGears site with this one. If a few volunteers can
generate something that looks good and works well, then paid employees
certainly should be able to do so.

My feelings on the site is that is better than Borland's yet there is
room for improvement (just like most other web sites and software
packages). If the web site development is taking away from wrapping
up Delphi 2007, then I would hope they would hire someone to focus on
the website. If they are using an outside source, hopefully they are
not paying too much as there are several minor issues that have
already been pointed out.
.

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