Tim Smith said:
If Asher (or the forum service he employs) were to use the software in question, there would be far fewer members of this board. Of course at this point, you might wish that he did, just to be rid of me and my stubborn opinions.
Cheers!
Tim
In fact, the software we use (Vbulletin) has of course be written by professionnal, but the customization took quite a while too and has been (and still is) handled by pros.
Why would a website developpement be different than photography?
You have different players: amateurs and pros…
While some bugs are acceptable from amateurs, they shouldn't be from pros (see my precaution for the wording ;-)).
Since computers are affordable some companies like Microsoft have produced and sold many softwares to make users beleive that they can do better than pros.
This is true in every jobs, for example Powerpoint may help someone to build a presentation, not to be a multimedia specialist! MS Word is a (very good) word processor but won't make a secretary a pro for brochure design.
In fact I strongly believe three things:
- The arrival of computers have brung the possibility for a much larger audience to become creative and choose a specialization that will become their job for long. Great !
- For the others, they are just fooled and spend to much time with these apps instead of doing their job, I mean the one that brings the spinach in the plates (and even the butter!).
- For whatever reasons, if one wants to handle the complete processes, then one should buy the right softwares, read the tutorials and books, and train, train so much that one will become a pro...
For example, this is what most of photographers do now when they develop their raw files instead of bringing the films to the lab.
And this is why there are forums like OPF to share our experiences!
So for once let's not blame Microsoft for this software, execpt if they lied when they sold it. It is not a pro software for web developpement.
Hope I didn't start for a war here ;;;;-))))))
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