Yeah, it is verz hard to find stuff. Oncei was serching some labs, then the developper center and maz thinks like this. If i would not have google i would not find it. And yet, their design is deprogressing. I think the last mainpage design was much much easier to use and userfriendly. Now all you see is an add and a little "RSS news" place. It is so hard to find what you look for. But i hope they will change it once to a better one.
Pedro D. Kostelec On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 7:06 PM, John McCormack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It _is_ difficult to find things. > I would like to see them put dates on thing so that know if it's the latest > version. > > John > > > Sunil Jolly wrote: > >> Great post! >> >> I've spent many hours searching through the Adobe site trying to find >> things. For a company trying to spearhead web development it's a poor >> show. >> >> Sunil >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Radley Marx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 September 2008 >> 20:50 >> To: Flash Coders List >> Subject: [Flashcoders] SOT: (Rant) Why is Adobe.com such a bad website? >> >> >> >> >> 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=Sho >> ckwaveFlash >> >> 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 >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> ------ >> Radley Marx >> www.radleymarx.com >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> ------ >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Flashcoders mailing list >> Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com >> http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders >> >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
