[kdewebdev-site] Proposed Quanta public site structure

[Eric Laffoon]

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On Tuesday 02 March 2004 12:28 pm, Andras Mantia wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 March 2004 22:18, jacob coby wrote:
> > --- Bill Chmura <Bill at KdeWebDev.org> wrote:
> > > We can make a note in the everpresent faq perhaps
> > > discussing [Quanta Gold]?
> >
> > I think it needs to be fairly obvious, maybe even with
> > a link off of quanta.kdewebdev.org?  I remember when I
> > first heard about Quanta a while back (2001 maybe?), I
> > was a little confused about Quanta vs Quanta Gold.  I,
> > at one time, thought that Quanta was the free version,
> > and if you wanted all of the good features, then I'd
> > have to upgrade to Quanta Gold.  We probably don't
> > want anybody else thinking the same thing as I did.
>
> Exactly. This was what I've been talking about. This one needs to be
> obvious.
>
> > It wasn't until a few months ago that I noticed the
> > blurb on the current quanta site saying that it has
> > nothing to do with Quanta Gold.
>
> ...even if the About Quanta dialog says:
> "Quanta Plus is not in any way affiliated with any commercial versions of
> Quanta"
>
> Seems to be not enough.
>
> Andras
Of course when people write me and tell me that they just tried the free 
version and it's a lot better than the commercial on. They want to know why 
and I tell them. Then I suggest if they can support a lame project that the 
principals wanted to kill this one with it's only fair they offer us at least 
equal support. Guilts them real good. ;-)

I'm for a FAQ. The paradox we have seen is that no matter where you put 
something, as one of my mentors loved to say, people don't read. We put info 
about KIO in the FAQ in the doc pages with Quanta, in the help section and 
even on the feature request page saying not to request FTP features because 
we have them. I mean can you believe that people have actually written me to 
say Quanta looks good but they can't believe we don't have file upload 
capabilities. "Oh, sorry, how could we have not noticed we were unable to 
upload our web sites? Thank you so much we'll implement that feature right 
after we get the stitches out from our lobotomies." Right!

So given the oddities of human nature I say on a FAQ and no more front page 
linking. If people are curious they will look. Frankly I don't know where 
they even get exposed to Quanta Feldspar. (for people not familiar with 
precious metals and gems feldspar is called "fools gold") It was a real sad 
mistake of greed and confusion on their parts to try to go from open to 
closed but it's history now. I think our current feature set and exposure on 
every distro is rapidly closing that book. Anybody checking out kdewebdev.org 
and their site needs to be struck right away that this is the most advanced 
web tool on Linux and that pretty much clears things up. right? ;-)

Or we could release a packaged CD and call it Quanta Platinum... just for 
those who are convinced the have to shell out for the very best. ;-)

Eric
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