"What happened?"
Probably what happens with every internal project in any big company
of the world: lack of actual resources, internal fights ("if you your
product is in the home, mine has too"), products that have different
needs but have to fit in the same corporate template, etc. etc.
I don't think it's *that* bad anyway.
Cheers!
Juan
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Jason Van Cleave
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> drupal is not that bad
>
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Radley Marx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> As a designer and developer, I *envied* the design of macromedia.com. I
>> studied it. Other companies copied it.
>>
>> I remember what a beautiful website MM once had, and at the time how Adobe's
>> was the exact opposite - ugly, hard to use, thoughtless. When Adobe bought
>> Macromedia, they immediately adopted the MM site. Brilliant move! But over
>> the past couple of years, Adobe has really beat it down with the ugly stick.
>>
>> With the demise of Flashpaper, I came across this page:
>>
>> http://www.adobe.com/products/flashpaper/eod_faq/
>>
>> This is probably one of the ugliest, thoughtless pages from a serious source
>> I've ever experienced in my career.
>>
>> Aesthetically, it's depressing. Depression-era-chic depressing.
>>
>> As a utility, it's restrictive. I must click on each question to discover
>> the facts, with many simply answering "No."
>>
>> Functionality, it's ridiculously ironic. Topic: Flashpaper discontinued.
>> First link: Buy online.
>>
>>
>> Other rants / examples:
>>
>> 1) How does a developer download the debug player via the download page?
>> There's no link!
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash
>>
>> Answer? It's actually down in "Support / Flash Player". But most developers
>> find it via a better source: Google search.
>>
>>
>> 2) Link icons on the debugger download page have been wrong for *years*. The
>> text links are right, but check out what happens if you use the actual
>> download arrows. You may accidently get Flash 8, or Windows .exe instead of
>> .dmg for Mac downloads.
>>
>> http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html
>>
>> (Note that I even managed to get an Adobe team member to forward these bugs
>> to the web team. Was never fixed.)
>>
>>
>> 3) Look at this product page:
>>
>> http://www.adobe.com/products/
>>
>> Why does it look like an abandoned store? It looks like a outsourced Drupal
>> project. Where's the flair? The edge?
>>
>>
>>
>> Adobe.com makes me want to submit a bid to fix it.
>>
>> What happened? I *REALLY* want to know! I just don't get it.
>>
>> My apologies to the list for this rant. I really hope this gets the
>> attention of someone significant @ Adobe.
>>
>> thank you.
>>
>> -radley
>>
>>
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