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| Author: | Gamesmith Denny [ 05-05-2011, 09:27 AM ] |
| Post subject: | **WWG News Update** MAY 2011 |
| Author: | MelEbbles [ 05-05-2011, 01:43 PM ] |
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| Author: | Dsqr964 [ 05-05-2011, 01:54 PM ] |
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| Author: | MelEbbles [ 05-05-2011, 06:06 PM ] |
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| Author: | CCotD [ 05-05-2011, 07:14 PM ] |
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Thank you MEL!! This will keep the Flash where it belongs... with the Product Video's...  too bad we don't see those more often. Love the Mars Station and the Tower of Chaos trailers... (hint, hint, nudge, nudge, wink, wink)
edit: First Light is also top notch. (I miss them so on the new ones) edit 2: Going down memory lane, totally forgot the hilarity of the Interior Works: Pubs and Inns with the outhouse.... absolutely brilliant! |
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| Author: | Talae [ 05-05-2011, 08:05 PM ] |
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I am so anxious of the new site! Keep up the good work behind the scenes. As a side note, I need to start watching Game of Thrones and playing Portal 2... |
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| Author: | Gamesmith Denny [ 05-05-2011, 08:58 PM ] |
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| Author: | CCotD [ 05-05-2011, 09:34 PM ] |
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| Author: | TheAuldGrump [ 05-05-2011, 09:43 PM ] |
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| Author: | uncre8d1 [ 05-06-2011, 03:29 AM ] |
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| Author: | Zenguy [ 05-06-2011, 04:06 AM ] |
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| Author: | Dsqr964 [ 05-06-2011, 07:21 AM ] |
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| Author: | Billa2720 [ 05-06-2011, 12:02 PM ] |
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| Author: | vampifan [ 05-07-2011, 04:35 AM ] |
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I am sure the new site will be awesome and I am eagerly awaiting launch day. |
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| Author: | joydyhee [ 05-07-2011, 05:25 AM ] |
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Like everyone else, I cannot wait to see the new site. We have experienced greatness upon walking through the WWG virtual doors, and we have come to expect it as well. I know we will all enjoy the new site because we have come to know that when you guys say something is new and improved, you deliver on that! |
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| Author: | Nickydude [ 05-07-2011, 06:45 AM ] |
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Should be an awesome site, looking forward to it. 
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| Author: | Gamesmith Denny [ 05-09-2011, 09:52 AM ] |
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| Author: | Bewildered Badger [ 05-09-2011, 11:11 AM ] |
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I'm looking forward to seeing how the site could improve on it's already high quality current design. What pleases me most though is the news that some of Mel Ebbles models will soon be available through WWG. Hopefully the ones I haven't already got! 
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| Author: | Zenguy [ 05-09-2011, 01:23 PM ] |
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| Author: | MelEbbles [ 05-09-2011, 03:59 PM ] |
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| Author: | Zenguy [ 05-09-2011, 04:40 PM ] |
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Curioser and curioser! p.s. Thanks for responding to my comment about Flash - there's nothing more annoying than sites that prevent users from having multiple pages open at once (my standard browsing method). |
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| Author: | MelEbbles [ 05-10-2011, 03:47 AM ] |
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I don't mean to make it sound more curious or bizarre. It's like this: -The easiest kind of cart setup is a basic setup for tangibles with simple shipping rules, those can be turned around very quickly and cheaply. In fact, you can pretty much get away with just using something like PayPal's default cart if you're a really small business with a low order volume. That's what I meant when I said it would have shipped weeks ago if it were that simple. -Downloads are a lot trickier. There's not a whole lot out there that you can just take off the shelf, so to speak. Existing solutions are either expensive, poorly thought out, or otherwise just don't meet the needs of this specific market. Most digital content support is geared towards ebooks, music, or whatever, and there's a certain amount of ignorance and stupidity in the implementations I've come across. For example, don't force the customer to fish through their order history for that one download they bought 2 years ago--that's just stupid. Just give them their freaking downloads already, and make it easy for them to access their downloads quickly. -Cart software is usually written by clueless programmers, not experienced storekeepers. There's a fundamental disconnect right there, so nearly every solution out there is just badly implemented on the admin end because programmers don't run a store for a living. It's the little things that matter, and every small gain you make in efficiency and user-friendliness pays large dividends over the long run. For example, programmers will maybe do a few sample products for testing purposes and then call it a day. When you're stuck with data entry in a production environment and you have to add hundreds of products, that's a whole different ballpark. -Cart software is also frequently designed with a "make it do everything so it can be everything to everybody" feature set. This means, in practice, hardly anyone will ever use the whole thing all at once. That's a lot of unnecessary fat in the codebase. For example, take Joomla/Virtuemart or Magento. Massive, bloated, slow, hard to retemplate from a cold start, and you can't just dive into extending the codebase without spending valuable time just learning how to use their plugin architecture. Screw that. Give the client exactly what they need, make it do exactly what they want, and keep it lean. It's not about the developer, it's about the client, and frameworks are one of those things that favor the developer over the client and encourage laziness. -I'm a programmer AND a storekeeper. I know how to write code, and I also know what it takes to run a store. That makes me better qualified for a project like this than somebody who can code but has never run a store in their life. Short form: Existing solutions aren't up to the job because none of them were designed with WorldWorks or anyone else in this industry in mind. Denny had a vision of where he wanted to take things, and that was also not stuff that could readily/easily be done with off-the-shelf solutions. So, Denny dragged me out of retirement to bring his vision to life.
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| Author: | ehisey [ 05-10-2011, 05:02 AM ] |
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| Author: | joydyhee [ 05-10-2011, 07:02 AM ] |
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| Author: | Dsqr964 [ 05-10-2011, 07:14 AM ] |
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+1 on planning. I work for a Dev firm as the tech. It's Db management for time and attendance software as well as biometric time clocks. When an IT department of the client who has our software plan for server moves or installs by contacting me first, their job goes much smoother. Planning is major but seems the least amount of effort goes there (even here where I work; frustrating), and there is so much disconnect in the tech industry from Dev's, End Users, and the techs who try to get things working. Great job guys!!! -D² |
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| Author: | zorg [ 05-10-2011, 07:30 AM ] |
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I wonder whether the new setup will come with unlimited downloads? The current setup (three dl's, reset with a reasonable request) seems to make unnecessary work for both sides. |
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| Author: | joydyhee [ 05-10-2011, 09:39 AM ] |
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| Author: | Gamesmith Denny [ 05-10-2011, 09:50 AM ] |
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| Author: | joydyhee [ 05-10-2011, 09:52 AM ] |
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| Author: | zorg [ 05-10-2011, 10:20 AM ] |
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