On 10 6 2004 at 5:54 pm -0400, Robert L Mathews wrote: >This service is something I'd consider offering to my customers if it >generated pages in plain (decent!) HTML. I couldn't sell something that >required that the customer's visitors have JavaScript enabled, though; >we'd get tons of complaints.
I have to agree. To be honest, while the Page Builder product is a great idea, I would probably be embarrassed to promote this kind of output from it. I understand the consumer-loyalty philosophy, but brain-dead markup is not something I would want to trumpet as a hallmark of a new product offering. As Ed said, I prefer to offer a quality service and let my customers choose for themselves to keep using it on those merits. I mean really, do we need to trick our customers into using it once and then finding they have to stick with it? A clueful customer who wants to "steal" the HTML would simply take the time to write it himself in the first place. It seems to me that the audience for this kind of service is going to be the non-techie (can't figure out FrontPage) or the broke (can't afford to hire a designer) who wants a simple UI to cobble together a page. If this customer starts using Page Builder and likes it, they would likely stick with it. -ben -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca
