Taco John
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Feb 12, 2007, 10:27 PM
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Completely disappointed in News Manager
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Hello,
I have been a big fan of your solutions, and have installed implmentations of both listings manager and article manager for clients and personal web sites.
I recently purchased News Manager, expecting a scaled back version of Article Manager. To my disappointment, I didn't even get that. With respect to your other programs, I'm finding that News Manager is next to useless.
First, I'm completely and utterly disappointed in the fact that I am only given two variables to work with: $image$ and $conent$. When I think about how absurd it is that you have chosen to do this, I can literally feel my blood pressure rise. I have so little control over how my news is being displayed because of this. It's ridiculous. Why in the world would you not allow users to create additional variables so that we could include elements that your team was apparently too shortsighted to include? I'd love to be able to format the picture within the news content. I'd love to be able to add a caption to that picture. I'd love to be able to include a sub-head. Simple little things. Not included.
Secondly, an maybe I'm wrong here, but there doesn't appear to be any sort of archive option that would allow the news to be sorted by month or year. I wish I would have recognized that this thing didn't scale with time.
Thirdly, there's no search feature.
After using this program, I've lost confidence in your company and probably won't be doing any more interactive tool installations. This thing has been such a frustration, and I can't figure out why you'd even bother to sell it under the name "News Manager." It doesn't manage anything. It's merely a "News Lister." There's absolutely no "management" involved whatsoever.
I would not recommend this program to anyone, and after my experience with it, I would be hesitant to recommend any of the other programs I've used, though I've been generally happy with them. It's wierd, but I actually feel betrayed after using this program.
I personally think that you should get serious about the program and actually make it a "News Manager" or just drop it from your line-up altogether. I think you're selling a bill of goods here.
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