David Segall wrote:
nice site.

On 8 Jan 2006 07:56:37 -0800, MajorSetback@excite.com posted something
that included:

No.

People are going to judge you software by the quality of your website.
You don't want a static website; you need something dynamic. A
bulletin board lets your users rave about your product, lets your
users suggest new uses for your product, and provide workarounds for
the, ahem, "features" we all work so hard to avoid. A blog lets your
users feel like they know you personally, and not only do many people
prefer to buy from a friend, even the ones that want to keep an arms'
length from their suppliers will be happy to believe that it's easy to
contact you for support. They worry about buying a product they can't
figure out how to use, with support in Mumbai, complete with such a
heavy accent they can't undestand.

Since you only have one product (or a half-dozen), you may well be
using PayPal and 2checkOut or something like that for processing
payments. (Some people love PayPal, some people hate it, and you will
benefit from offering potential customers both options.)

Consequently, you don't really need ZenCart or OSCommerce or some
other full-fledged shopping cart. That means you can use a regular CMS
instead. Drupal is pretty easy to deal with, and it's the one I would
go with.

Another solution might be to go with Mambo Open Source or Joomla.
These are basically the same product - there's recently been a rift in
the developer community, and it appears most of them are now working
on the new product, Joomla, instead of MOS. I've not spent much time
with Joomla, but there is a patch available that allows you can to use
single-sign-in Mambo Open Source with Simple Machines Forum for a BBS.
There are a lot of other CMSes, but they tend to be lot more
slashdottish in appearance, and I hink you probably want a website
that looks simple, clean, easy to use, because that will suggest to
customers that your C++ software will be simple and clean in
appearance, and easy to use.

Good luck in your venture!





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But DO NOT pick a good looking one. Pretend you are actually trying to
find stuff out from their website - see if it's easy to navigate,
resizes gracefully, and doesn't waste precious monitor real estate.
There are many pretty sites that are just a pain to use.

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In message <1136679729.465295.312080@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups .com>,
MajorSetback@excite.com writes
Try it online here:
http://www.siliconglen.com/usability/

or download the free version here
http://www.htmlvalidator.com/lite/

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Craig Cockburn wrote

At *your* site. How convenient.

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easier to get used to. However, I can't stand FP and only use Dreamweaver --
which in my opinion is far superior.
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Can you be more specific about what DW adds to the code?

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Samman <sam@psfripitdev.com> stumbled into
news:alt.html,alt.http://www.webmaster,comp.infosystem...authoring.html
and said:

example only:

<table>
....
<tr width="270">
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>

....

<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><b r>

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That is indeed interesting...
I have been working with DW in a production environment for about 4 years
and have not witnessed code (markup) being generated like that, unless asked
to do so.

Example. I asked DW to make a table, 100% in width, 3 rows and 2 columns.
Here is the markup it gave me...

<table width="100%" summary="test table">
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
</table>

The non-breaking spaces it inserts are just placeholders, where other
objects/content would be placed. After content is added, it looks like this
(no code cleaning was done)...

<table width="100%" summary="test table">
<tr>
<td>Lorem ipsum dolor si</td>
<td>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consect</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lorem ipsum dolor sit am</td>
<td>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscin</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lorem ipsum dolor sit </td>
<td>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectet</td>
</tr>
</table>

Looks pretty clean to me, nicely indented, etc...

I'm not trying to convince you to use the tool. Use whatever you are
comfortable, happy & productive with. :-)

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On 11 Jan 2006 Samman wrote in alt.www.webmaster

Yah, but your content isn't very original.

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