The New Delphi Product Page
You guys have no doubt noticed our new web site. I want to make sure that you’ve noticed some of the new features of the Delphi product page.
First, we’ve added a Delphi Resource Page. On this page, we’ve put in some of the popular blogs, web sites, toolkits, and other resources that are useful for Delphi developers. We’ve concentrated on resources for beginners, things that will help your productivity, and things to help you get nice user interfaces up and running very quickly. If there is a site you think should be in on the Resource page, let me know.
Secondly, we’ve added a "Feature Drill Down". Here, we have an outline of the major feature areas, with sub items for the specific features, that then take you to a short description and/or screen shot of the feature. Right now, the feature drill downs aren’t completely comprehensive. We’re working to flesh them out more. If there are areas or specific features that you’d like to see, let me know.
I think both of these are nice additions to the web site, particularly for those folks not so familiar with Delphi’s features and capabilities, and for those folks wanting to get started in the community.
Awesome. Great job!
May 14th, 2008 at 5:42 pmNoticed the new website, found it less garish (the old one hurt my eyes!), but a touch too "Borland" - in light of the sale, I find I can take that last fact with a large grain of salt!
The new delphi info page isn’t too bad. I would move the feature matrix to full button status with Trial and Buy - when it comes to upgrading, that is the information I am after right after the trial version. I think others might agree if you ask them.
The feature matrix could probably benefit from some ajax - fold up the images by default, and only load it when someone unfolds them. It would make the page load faster to be sure. Oh, and you could have it as a single page instead of an index page that seems to lead to a single page that has everything on it (seems kinda klunky that way)
The feature drill down is the right idea, but it definitely feels like it could use more polish. Esp. from a company that creates ajax and php tools.
May 14th, 2008 at 6:17 pmThe feature matrix is awesome.
All new site is now more compreensive, new comers and who is using old versions can clearly see why them should use Delphi/Rad Studio 2007.
Keep improving.
May 14th, 2008 at 7:14 pmI am glad to see screen captures (in HTML) instead of PDF documents. I always hated the PDF brochures on the web.
May 14th, 2008 at 7:52 pmExcellent initiative, especially the Drill Down feature.
I tried it but at present it does not seem to drill down very far, in fact it seems quite flat.
VCL Components for example is flat and I was expecting to be able to drill down from a group to a component to aspects of that component etc.
Is it just early days? I hope so because this resource has huge potential.
DerekSmith
May 14th, 2008 at 11:17 pmIt is much better, but you guys really need a hire a professional for the graphics. They look amateurish. Check out your main screenshot:
http://www.codegear.com/article/34204/images/34204/02000003.jpg
It is full of artifacts. Mostly caused by the fact that it is a low quality JPEG. Application screenshots need to be lossless png these days. Plus most screenshots on the features pages are made on Windows XP. If you want Delphi to look like modern tool make your screenshots on Vista.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:44 amBelieve it or not, PNG crashes some older operating systems. Crashes, in the sense of having to reboot your machine!
May 15th, 2008 at 3:30 amI love the new website, it has more info, looks fresh and well designed.
Speaking of web design, do you think Delphi will support Silverlight technology?
I believe if Delphi takes that step and support Silverlight it will
gain a new market share, new users and show that it welling to
evolve.
I think Silverlight is a very important new technology and Delphi
May 15th, 2008 at 7:09 amshould seriously consider supporting it
On the resource page… Looks great. Maybee add user groups as a resource?
May 15th, 2008 at 9:23 amLance —
Unfortunately, we don’t have a central repository of User Group information. Do you know of one?
Nick
May 15th, 2008 at 10:25 amBoth pages never end to load here. Maybe there is some image or counter or something included that’s served by a slower server and the result is not pretty, with the hourglass cursor.
Another little detail is the width. I’m browsing at 1024 with the laptop. The horizontal scroll bars appear for both pages (main and Delphi) though it’s possible to prevent for the Delphi page reducing the font size.
The image of "breaking news" in the main page doesn’t show.
I like the Delphi page. But the main page seems cluttered and not too beautiful.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:16 pmref. What’s new since D7: class operator aren’t supported in Delphi Win32.
May 15th, 2008 at 2:47 pmI can not open http://www.codegear.com/solutions/software-archeology with Firefox Firefox/2.0.0.11. It shows me the html source code first and then the connection was reset.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:38 pmI have also probs with my firefox-browser. Hmmm. Dont know why!
May 15th, 2008 at 10:50 pmIn Opera http://www.codegear.com works very badly
May 16th, 2008 at 12:03 amPlease, correct it.
In Opera (9.27) http://www.codegear.com works very badly
May 16th, 2008 at 12:37 amPlease, correct it.
Hi Nick,
May 16th, 2008 at 3:59 amcongrat to you, JohnK and the other team-members for the great work. Looks more like "2008" then the old web site.
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