Who'd be Actinic?

[Jan]

I pay for my Actinic software as well, by the way.

Regards,

[buspassjohn]

Sorry everyone, I guess the nasty rumour about developers getting Actinic free was just that, a nasty rumour told me to further p me off.

Roll on free from Actinic day!

[pinbrook]

I guess the nasty rumour about developers getting Actinic free was just that, a nasty rumour told me to further p me off.

I guess the rumour came from the same source as the other rumour that paypal offered actinic a sweetener to integrate paypalpro.

[completerookie]

Some people have been sounding particularly fed up on here just lately

I think another good word here is FRUSTRATED - you're one of the lucky ones that know sufficient to write plugins - my guess is that 99% of us just have to accept some of the code that is thrown at us with no easy way out of it.

I've wondered why some of the people are "languishing" on older versions - now I know

[Darren B]

interesting enough i pay my subscription every year and have called support, maybe twice a year at most.

i gave up because they go through the the standard list and regardless of how many times you tell them you did that they want you to do while you talk to them or tell you to do it then ring back and when you ring back no one answers the phone because support has gone home? The worst has to be send a snapshot can take weeks to get it sorted that way.

Anyway i find the people here more helpfull and i always try to help other.

But everyone has this need for stuff, google checkout might seem good but it is not on my list of prioritys i want the shipping finished. There were some great changes made and it works well but i can not assign or exclude products from particular types of shipping and still use weight which is a real pain but hey i have to live with it. I do not slag actinic off i just make a wish and cross my fingers, toes and just about anything else.

Just my opinion
Darren

[chris ashdown]

I will go against the grain and say I like Actinic, I also like their support, their forum and also find them great value for money

We demand better and more complicated software at the drop of a hat and then complain its got a loads of bugs, Actinic are one of the compaines that release to everyone the latest beta versions to try out, but how many of us really try them out to the full apart from a few dedicated developers, (have a look at the authors of most of the bugs on this forum)

How many thousands of people were involved in Vista testing and still they were ammending things very late before launch.

From a large number of problems with 8.5.x most seem to be from developers who have probably heaverly modified sites, and this is what most people would expect to find, I would also expect the majority of sites are like mine boring maybe but basically standard except for a few of Normans patches and upgrade without major problems.

V8 was a major change by starting again from scratch, how many other companies are brave enough to go that route, I wish Sage for one would.

Standing back and waiting on someone to complain about the prices, who want to start a business on a fiver and be Bill Gates in two years

[Mark H]

V8 was a major change by starting again from scratch

How come we got the same !X$&&!x checkout then

[RuralWeb]

How come we got the same !X$&&!x checkout then

IMO there is nothing wrong with it - have you been shopping on the net recently there are some really crap ones out there that make Actinic look fantastic.

[pinbrook]

How come we got the same !X$&&!x checkout then

must admit i don't find anythingwrong with it either....

[Mark H]

http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=9415

Includes comment from Chris Dicken (October 2004) to the effect that it does need improving and that they are looking at it. This should have been addressed in V8.

[RuralWeb]

This should have been addressed in V8.

I remember the posts and there was only a couple of people not happy - others were happy. Not enough to change checkout I would think.

If you are unhappy why not start a wish list and see what others think - its unlikely to be changed based on present comments I would think.

[RuralWeb]

Try the Adobe checkout if you want to give up the will to live

[los_design]

Try the Adobe checkout if you want to give up the will to live

Act checkout is standard at worst, better than most at best and as V8 has reinvented the wheel, you can now go in and customised til you drop if you wish (assuming you know how to )

Re Adobe, try their website too, what a bulky nightmare....

OT FAO Jo

Yippeeeeeeeeee, at last, a successful u/g from 804 to 851 following the DONT YOU DARE TOUCH MY DESIGN OPTION...feels the faith in Actinic slowly drip feeding back into my veins.

Now for a v6 site

Regards