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thiscatis
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Argh.

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Does this sounds familiar:

You've been coding all day, made a small masterpiece that you think is worth a try to turn it
into a project and you ask someone of your friends to take a look at it.
And the first thing they will say is "I think that green color comes out all wrong".
And you're like omfg :? 8O :o , don't you understand there's a whole server side section that makes you do stuff.
And they're like : yeah, but the green is still wrong.

Slap. i'm off to bed :)
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Post by Ambush Commander »

It's called marketing! ;-)

Seriously though, a software package isn't just a wicked piece of code: it's also all about documentation and interface. Without those, you're doomed to fail.

In your case, however, make it blue! :-P

Edit - Hmmm... are you talking about ImagePit? Well, it looks pretty snazzy and well-marketed to me. Ask someone else.
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Ambush Commander wrote:It's called marketing! ;-)

Seriously though, a software package isn't just a wicked piece of code: it's also all about documentation and interface. Without those, you're doomed to fail.

In your case, however, make it blue! :-P
It supports templates ;)
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Post by Ambush Commander »

Edited too late. Is this ImagePit you're talking about?

Also, default theme is very important, because most people never get beyond that. First impression counts too.
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Post by thiscatis »

Thanks for the comments ;)
No ImagePit is a side-project i'm working on.

i'm making some kind of multi-user CMS for a niched group of clients.
When It's in a beta stage i'll post it in UI Design/Usability and you guys can critize away ;)
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Post by s.dot »

I can identify. It's kind of annoying! Like I want to show off a cool effect, but they're only interested in parts that aren't done yet. Like a couple days ago, I wanted to show off a superb CSS layout. The first response was, "there's nothing on the page, what layout?"

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Post by timvw »

Users don't care about the (technical) beauty of a solution... The want something that makes *their* job easier.. They use your application as a black box... (Just like most application developers use their hardware and operating system as a black blox/layer to make their application run)
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