| David Troxell - Encourager Software 2006-02-28, 6:55 pm |
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Clarion ProSeries Site Added - Rated as the latest Clarion Third Party Best
Dressed!
Evaluation Date - February 28, 2006
"Clarion ProSeries is the latest developer tool site from LANSRAD
(http://www.lansrad.com/) - Charles Edmonds is the master mind of an ever
increasing product line with state of the art inventiveness.
Innovative Professional Grade Tools from a Cutting Edge Software Developer
While Clarion ProSeries (http://www.clarionproseries.com/) is currently only
a two product site - one released ProScan
(http://www.clarionproseries.com/html/proimage.html) and another ProImage
(http://www.clarionproseries.com/html/proscan.html) to follow shortly,
Charles Edmonds of LANSRAD has certainly set the stage for what a Clarion
Third Party Add-on site can be OUT of the starting gate.
Let's start with the overall design of the web site - it's one thing to
start with some web design tools, hopefully employ some artistic creativity
and create something that will be easy to navigate, and display your
products logically.
Charles has another approach - Create a tool EZRound
(http://www.ezround.com/) - that will help you create stunning banners,
graphics and buttons AND then he created a technique called Site Styles that
will help you enhance the standard site styles that ship with NetObjects
Fusion (or any other website development tool).
BUT he doesn't stop there - he creates all kinds of EZRound tutorials to
help you further learn his web design techniques.
Now, back to the Clarion ProSeries site - Main buttons in tan and Sub Menu
buttons in orange - you always feel in control of this menu system. Banner
buttons contain a headline for each product page - great touch!
Enough visually appealing graphics interspersed throughout the whole web
site to make it more interesting AND informative.
Add a great end user screen shot of the product (ProScan) on the main page
of this product that can be enlarged where you see more detail quickly AND
some of you might want to buy it and add it to your app based on what you
CAN see from this single screen shot!
The descriptive feature page includes information about the end user product
that is added to your app, and also important features that appeal to your
programmer side including some innovative coding techniques for storing
Blobs and a new RegINIClass that you can use in other programs.
Let me make a comment here about the online help - it's a very popular extra
that a lot of developers use - without even downloading a demo, you get a
wealth of information - however, let's see how Charles has taken it to
another level, and adds to the value of this product.
ProScan comes with a 5600+ word help file for your end users! It comes as a
compiled .chm file and includes the Help & Manual project file. This is a
very professional designed document and it says volumes about LANSRAD
craftsmanship!
To launch support for the product, Charles could have used a number of
standard approaches, and he does use some traditional methods. However,
through research, he found a forum based product that is web browsers
accessible (http://news.clarionproseries.com) AND news readers ready
(news.clarionproseries.com) as well.
And for any developer that offers two or more products, bundle pricing is
always attractive, and the Clarion Pro Series offers bundle pricing from the
start as well.
All in all, not only a great start for the launch of LANSRAD's latest
software site; but attention to detail, navigation, artistic touches,
products displayed well, menus, product description, page layouts, overall
site consistency, images, contact information, support information, and
Clarion compatibility issues make this site worthy of the designation - the
latest Clarion Third Party Best Dressed site!"
David
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From David Troxell - Product Scope 32 PRO - Encourager Software
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