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Re: Fog Creek releases WebPutty

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Post by nl »

guywithabike wrote: post #22
sfk wrote: post #20

Could someone explain why most recent websites look as if the members of the target audience are five-year old children? This is not a troll - I'm honestly wondering if anyone actually likes such a "design".

Can you explain why you think the design targets "five-year old children"? All you did was make a reductive, flippant accusation without backing it up at all.

I don't think it really needs explanation - using the term "fisher price style" is quite a common way of describing that style.

For example:

Each Fisher Price style button leading through to a small nugget of information that users can consume very quickly and move on or should we continue designing pages that are more traditional in their layout (more text+images)?

http://www.welcomebrand.co.uk/blog/2010/09/10/the-dumbening-...

Personally, I don't think it's a bad thing at all. Obviously the grandparent disagrees, but the question is quite valid.

Re: Fog Creek releases WebPutty

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Post by alecperkins »

vailripper wrote: post #3

this is a pretty awesome idea. Maybe I'm just inefficient, but I always find myself spending a stunning amount of time tweaking CSS, refreshing the page, ad nauseum. The only downside I see is that in order to modify your site CSS, it seems you would have to be running this tool, and you wouldn't be able to use your IDE of choice.

Does exactly what it sounds like, and lets you edit the source however you want: http://livereload.com/

Re: Fog Creek releases WebPutty

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Post by nmb »

ibejoeb wrote: post #19
nmb wrote: post #13

the favicon ( http://www.webputty.net/favicon.ico ) looks awfully similar to the notepad++ logo: http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

The graphic is by Hayes Roberts [1], licensed for use in WebPutty [2]. [1] http://www.bluebison.net/content/?p=786 [2] http://www.webputty.net/credits

Ah, should have looked into that myself. Thanks.

Re: Fog Creek releases WebPutty

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Post by mtogo »

zavulon wrote: post #5
dmbass wrote: post #2

Can someone explain why they would choose a name like Putty which is already a well established and completely different software?

I got really confused by that too. I think 99% of target audience are going to think "oh, it's a web-based terminal app". They should change the name before it's too late.

That was actually my first thought when i saw spolsky's tweet.

Re: Fog Creek releases WebPutty

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Post by tghw »

RocknRolla wrote: post #17

Maybe I'm not understanding this completely (and that's entirely possible!) but why use 3rd party web servers? I like the idea but it just seems like it'd be easier as a browser addon. With the browser addon: ||Step 1 > Visit Url or open file ||Step 2 > Click the addon button ||Step 3 > Addon opens double pane and clears any current CSS ||Step 4 > Edit CSS and refresh There's probably already an addon like this. Admi…

We give you SCSS/Compass and we host it for you. It's all about reducing friction.

Re: Fog Creek releases WebPutty

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Post by smackfu »

dmbass wrote: post #2

Can someone explain why they would choose a name like Putty which is already a well established and completely different software?

I don't even understand why it's named that, and it's not like they even bought the webputty.com domain.

Re: Fog Creek releases WebPutty

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Post by smackfu »

ibejoeb wrote: post #19
nmb wrote: post #13

the favicon ( http://www.webputty.net/favicon.ico ) looks awfully similar to the notepad++ logo: http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

The graphic is by Hayes Roberts [1], licensed for use in WebPutty [2]. [1] http://www.bluebison.net/content/?p=786 [2] http://www.webputty.net/credits

It's still odd. This whole thing seems a bit half baked.

Re: Fog Creek releases WebPutty

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Post by swah »

tghw wrote: post #27
swah wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder if they used that tour making library posted here the other day...

Yup, we used the Guiders library posted by the Optimizely guys: https://github.com/jeff-optimizely/Guiders-JS

Cool, they should link to your page as an example. Don't you think a "Previous step" button would be useful?

Re: Fog Creek releases WebPutty

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Post by vailripper »

alecperkins wrote: post #32
vailripper wrote: post #3

this is a pretty awesome idea. Maybe I'm just inefficient, but I always find myself spending a stunning amount of time tweaking CSS, refreshing the page, ad nauseum. The only downside I see is that in order to modify your site CSS, it seems you would have to be running this tool, and you wouldn't be able to use your IDE of choice.

Does exactly what it sounds like, and lets you edit the source however you want: http://livereload.com/

Is there anything like this for PC?
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