but extremely user unfriendly. I give it my vote of the most user
unfriendly program I've ever used in the last 10 years. Considering they
designed it to make the developers life easier, I would have to say it is a
failure on that front. Hopefully someone at Able Commerce will see some of
these comments and be embarrassed enough to do something constructive such
as making the program actually easier to use so we can get back to our
lives instead of getting frustrated by a rigid and ugly looking interface.
At 08:22 PM 4/16/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>I agree with you on your comments about help etc.
>Their documentation is weak. The product however, is very robust and
>flexible.
>
>
>Paul Burgess
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Giminez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 7:44 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Is Able Commerce truly user-unfriendly and hence useless?
> >
> >
> > I am only about 4 months into Cold Fusion. Able is the first CF
> > store package for me to use. I have
> > been very frustrated with it's "Wizards" mostly due to a lack or
> > non-integration of help files.
> > Figuring out how to customize something is mostly a 'try and see
> > what happens' process. Their
> > documentation is not easily accessible as far as trying to find
> > specifically what you want to do. I
> > started with the standard version and was too limited, so I had
> > to upgrade to the open source. I'm
> > not saying they do this, but it almost seems that they limit what
> > you can do just so you'll have to
> > pay another $1500 for open source. I'm just starting to get
> > comfortable with it and would probably
> > use it again since I would be much more familiar with it the next
> > time around. The backend is very
> > solid and with my limited experience with CF I wouldn't even want
> > to try to build everything the
> > program does.
> >
> > If I were able to give Able some advice, it would be to add a
> > help button to every page of the admin
> > section. Hitting the button would load a pop up window with help
> > that is specific to where you are
> > in the program. This would have saved me hours in learning it...
> > and having to call support to
> > figure it out.
> >
> >
> > Chris Giminez
> > Owner - Cyber Scriber Web Site Design
> > 831-728-4469
> > ICQ# 2628000
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > I have tried to get Able Commerce which is built on Cold Fusion
> > templates
> > > up and running as an e-commerce solution. Problem is the
> > program seems so
> > > utterly rigid in deployment that there's no way to get into the pages to
> > > customize the look.
> > >
> > > The basic look made by Able Commerce is so ugly that the resulting pages
> > > make one desire to throw up. Hence changing the look is critical, yet
> > > apparently impossible when you go to the editing web pages section.
> > >
> > > Is Able Commerce truly an impossible program to work with and
> > could anyone
> > > for the love of God please recommend something more user friendly and
> > > actually usable. We've lost a good two weeks messing around with Able
> > > Commerce, it has all in all been a highly frustrating experience.
> > >
> > > Would appreciate a reference to any other shopping cart
> > e-commerce solution.
> > >
> > >
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