Eric Wise

Business & .NET

Whoops

I forgot to disable the change password/account creation for the demo build this morning. So naturally someone changed the admin password.

The database has been restored and the proper controls are disabled, so it's all good now! On a side note, if this is the least embarassing thing that happens to me this year I'll consider myself fortunate.=)

http://www.easyassets.net

uid: admin

pwd: admin

Published Apr 04 2005, 09:09 AM by Eric Wise

Filed under: Easy Web Applications

Comments

Adam said:

I've been reading your blog for a while and I just checked out EasyAssets--it's great. It looks very professional and quite polished. I can really only judge it on the quality of its design (I'm working on starting a very micro-ISV so don't have many assets to track), but so far as looks go, I'm impressed.

I do, however, have a one small suggestion. On the welcome page, I naturally tried to click on the alerts to see more details for them (i.e.: I tried to click the box next to "There are currently X assets in the system" to try to see the assets in the system. It's obviously not a big deal, but it might help people to more easily and intuitively drill down from a very general view of their assets to the specific information they want.

Well done and good luck. I'm interested to see how this business works out for you.

-Adam Berger
http://adambergersoftware.blogspot.com

# April 4, 2005 12:56 PM

Honestly said:

Did you use a code generator to develop the screens? They all look sorta generic... The GUI's OK; perhaps you should try to make it look more like a real app. Try following MS CRM; no that's sweet. Thin client with a rich client look and functionality.

To be brutally honest, the users won't care about the underlying "beauty" of your object models, but they WILL care and base their judgements on your app by the "beauty" of the interface and how easy it is to use. I would say give more time and attention to that, and less on the beautification of the code structure and how OOP it is... to be honest.

# April 4, 2005 2:01 PM

Eric Wise said:

Adam- Thanks! I've gotten pretty positive feedback on the design which always makes a guy feel good, especially one as artistically challenged as I am. You're not the first one to suggest drilling into the alerts on the welcome page. I do plan on adding that before release.

Anonymous- You know, I did struggle with this. I'll admit that the screens are "generic". What I struggled with was how much "funk" to put into the pages. The more heavily I script and do wild and crazy things the more my cross-browser compatibility drops. In the end I decided to start with vanilla and simple. I do plan on jazzing up the interface over time though.

# April 4, 2005 3:03 PM

Honestly said:

Do you _really_ think that cross-browser compatibility is _that_ important?? A very small percentage are actually using IE, especially in the small biz market. MS CRM actually requires an IE client in order to offer a richer interface. I'm not sure that catering to the <5% (?) or so is worth making the other 95% suffer just so you can program to the lowest common denominator. Something to ponder...

# April 6, 2005 12:58 PM