Deceptive advertising
We are all glad to see that a company had bought netobjects and was working on a new version. Tons if webmasters loved fusion, and thought it was a dead product. You can't imagine the excitement we all felt when rumors circulated about a new version coming out! Everyone was eager and ready to support any development of our favorite web site editor. Little did we know that web site pros was going to use netobjects fusion for deceptive advertising.
Looking back the first new version of fusion that WSP put out was awesome, but the subsequent versions had an eerie feel.
In my opinion the version in which they added the photogallery and upcharge for an upgrade really was a ploy to get a bunch of consumers, not web site professionals to buyt the product. Nothing really wrong with that, except that a lot of web site professionals had to pay for a new version to get bug fixes and a couple new features to make sites modern, and most likely all of us already had thumbnail gallery creation software that is better and not limited as fusion is.
(I was using photoimpact's album and or batch process at the time, thumbs plus is better now)
Fortunately I did not have to suffer with the ritz camera / fusion offer, but I did read many complaints from users who were duped into getting a free fusion with phot software if they bought such and such a camera from ritz camera. Well this was really lame, because imagine all these people excited with seriously cool software in thier hands, and brand new digital camera, bragging to thier friends about building and sharing new photo sites, spending hours to leanr new software, only to find that this free version only works with a paid to web site pros hosting account. And I am sure later finding issues with photo galleries being too large to work properly, and duplicate assets showing up in backups later that will cause the whole things to be screwed up. Makes me wonder if I had signed up for a hosting accoutn with 1and1.com for a client in order to recieve version 8 of fusion free, if that version would work , or be handicapped to just 1and1??? Hadn;t considered that possibility since it wasn;t stated on the hosting sign up, but if that is the case, would I ever be ticked off.
Next decpeption. The database functions. Fusion has been saying easy in program database management, but in my experience this is far from the case, and everyone suggests using MySQl and php instead of fusion, so why is this even advertised, or at least it should be advertised that it has serious limitations, and users who require more than so many entries will most likely need to use other third party stuff to make their sites (professionals).
So new versions came out. I received a bunch emails touting the new ecommerce functions. Well they don't tell you that these new ecommerce options only work a few select online shopping cart merchants, and they have thier own fees and limitations associated with them. (another way for WSP to get kickbacks?)
How about the free counters and guestbooks you get with version 8? Well, they are not free, and you can get better for free elsewhere - a waste of space in fusion in my opinion, but if it gets kicks backs to web site pros to help fund the next version of fusion I guess I can't bitch too much. Just wish there was a way to remove the links from the online view so I didn't have to keep thinking how lame for this crap to be on my desktop in a "professional" web site creation program. This is the kind of crap that I expect to see in free downloads from c-net or coffeecup software, not in programs that I pay $200 for.
My 2 cents on thanksgiving, I'm sure I will remember more deceptive advertising things with web site pros later and post then.
S
Looking back the first new version of fusion that WSP put out was awesome, but the subsequent versions had an eerie feel.
In my opinion the version in which they added the photogallery and upcharge for an upgrade really was a ploy to get a bunch of consumers, not web site professionals to buyt the product. Nothing really wrong with that, except that a lot of web site professionals had to pay for a new version to get bug fixes and a couple new features to make sites modern, and most likely all of us already had thumbnail gallery creation software that is better and not limited as fusion is.
(I was using photoimpact's album and or batch process at the time, thumbs plus is better now)
Fortunately I did not have to suffer with the ritz camera / fusion offer, but I did read many complaints from users who were duped into getting a free fusion with phot software if they bought such and such a camera from ritz camera. Well this was really lame, because imagine all these people excited with seriously cool software in thier hands, and brand new digital camera, bragging to thier friends about building and sharing new photo sites, spending hours to leanr new software, only to find that this free version only works with a paid to web site pros hosting account. And I am sure later finding issues with photo galleries being too large to work properly, and duplicate assets showing up in backups later that will cause the whole things to be screwed up. Makes me wonder if I had signed up for a hosting accoutn with 1and1.com for a client in order to recieve version 8 of fusion free, if that version would work , or be handicapped to just 1and1??? Hadn;t considered that possibility since it wasn;t stated on the hosting sign up, but if that is the case, would I ever be ticked off.
Next decpeption. The database functions. Fusion has been saying easy in program database management, but in my experience this is far from the case, and everyone suggests using MySQl and php instead of fusion, so why is this even advertised, or at least it should be advertised that it has serious limitations, and users who require more than so many entries will most likely need to use other third party stuff to make their sites (professionals).
So new versions came out. I received a bunch emails touting the new ecommerce functions. Well they don't tell you that these new ecommerce options only work a few select online shopping cart merchants, and they have thier own fees and limitations associated with them. (another way for WSP to get kickbacks?)
How about the free counters and guestbooks you get with version 8? Well, they are not free, and you can get better for free elsewhere - a waste of space in fusion in my opinion, but if it gets kicks backs to web site pros to help fund the next version of fusion I guess I can't bitch too much. Just wish there was a way to remove the links from the online view so I didn't have to keep thinking how lame for this crap to be on my desktop in a "professional" web site creation program. This is the kind of crap that I expect to see in free downloads from c-net or coffeecup software, not in programs that I pay $200 for.
My 2 cents on thanksgiving, I'm sure I will remember more deceptive advertising things with web site pros later and post then.
S
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