Re: "beta" is a reach, but....

Joost Kremers wrote:
Kenny wrote:
I am not sure then how people get excited about the first version by arguing about web page point size.

mmm. since you seem rather hung up on this,...

It's me who is hung up on this? Excuse me....

AAUAUGGHHHRHRGHAAUAUARGRGHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for waiting.


let me explain why i brought it
up. (though TBH i thought it would be obvious...) personally, if i am
considering spending my money on some piece of software, the first place i
look is the company's/program's homepage.

Actually, one of the things I have had to learn is to lose that attitude. Oh, god, I cannot ship it like this, I have to ask the operating system how fast to blink the caret in the math editor. No, I don't. (But I did, I had not learned.) That is something definitely to get round to, but in its right prioritized order.

Most critics never consider that every enterprise has finite resources, they just pound their criticizee with any fault they can spot, an activity for which they have infinite resources it seems.

Most critics also forget they are talking to someone who might have just spent a year or five on producing something with a lot of substance and that it is fine to offer helpful advice (which is exactly how I took yours) but expect smoke from ears if that is /all/ you can say.

As for home pages, you have not seen the competion:

http://www.mathpower.com/tips.htm

And I think that is after I suggested he improve his web site. :)


the website basically gives me
the first impression of the program, and if the website looks bad, that
immediately influences my feelings about the program.

Oh? What effect did "The best Algebra tutorial I have seen" from macworld have on you? Or was the type too small. <sigh>

if a company is
unable to make a decent website suggests something to me about their
ability to make a decent program.

now, consciously, i know that the two aren't necessarily related, but it
nonetheless has an effect, and furthermore, i suspect that many of your
prospective customers are less inclined to make that distinction.

No argument. meanwhile someone who actually tried the software complained about being able to move quickly from problem to problem and we had a nice chat about the undocumented use of page down for that and how to refine the interface so folks can know it is there. I actually thought I would get that complaint because I had the same reaction when I was doing missions but I really wanted to have someone else complain about before working on it.

This is a very rich piece of software with all sorts of interface things to be ironed out and I could be ironing until the day I die and not even know if I am ironing things that ever matter.

Of course this is c.l.l, a bad place to find programmers who work on interesting software with interesting problems, let's get back to Anna Kournikova...


so i
figured it'd be a good idea to warn you about the fact that on some
configurations, the website doesn't look good. i know i may not really have
a standard setup, so you may decide that the actual number of people that
might have trouble with the site is so small, it's not worth your time to
fix it, that's completely up to you.

anyway, i wasn't trying to be an ass, and i'm sorry if i came across that
way. i certainly wish you good luck with stuck on algebra and hope it'll be
a success. if i had windows, i might have downloaded the beta and tried
your software, the demo on the website certainly looks very appealing.



Thanks! :)

Peace, kenzo
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