At least the loyal response in defense of the folks at PC is encouraging . . .
Surely this software must be worth learning if it generates that sort of loyalty from its users.
The problem is that I bought WebCat because I thought it was going to enable me to get my projects up quickly. I'm way past deadline. I literally don't have another $600 to pay out to learn how to use it. And if I did,while I suppose videos would at least be something, hardcopy documentation that can be visuallyscanned and referred to quickly is really what I need to get started.
I was sure I had seen a book written about the popular software Web Catalog during some late night online surfing about. But now that I've bought WebCat and desperately need that book (or any book for that matter) naturally I haven't been able to find it.
So if any of you know of such a book . . .
I'm grateful a few of you have spoken at length though, because now I feel I can too! (not all the time of course but just this once)
I understand about the folks at P.C. being spread too thin and having to struggle with being a small company.
We're small also but we have some wondrously large dreams.
I'm a single mom with five children and this is my do or die attempt to get something going for us and my dear best friend who lost her husband and then suffered a major heart attack two days after Christmas and became disabled and my other friend who has provided financial backing so we've got this chance.
I've been struggling for months to learn languages, softwares, the mysterious workings of the Internet , servers, security and so forth. Trying to get up to speed with folks that have been immersed in this computer world for twenty years. (With total respect for the amount of knowledge, you understand, just too stubborn and desperate to give up.)
Then I read about WebCat and suddenly I felt hope! I went out on a limb and and arranged to purchase it. I too was looking forward to being part of something that seemed truly exciting. This software was going to make it happen! I'd add my sites to the lists of examples and speak in glowing terms of my life changing experience!
I was having those lovely thousands of colors visions of fulfilled expectations as I awaited WebCats arrival. My mental soundtrack was playing inspiring songs like - To dream the impossible dream, somewhere over the rainbow, take this job and shove it, . . . maybe some of you have had similar tunes playin? I could already see the headlines Woman refuses to give up! Undaunted by a grueling life of poverty she perseveres and at 43 . . . well, you get the idea : ) Me smiling modestly and saying,I really owe it all to those great folks at Pacific Coast Software and the fantastic software those geniuses created!!!
Then came the day!!! It arrived! I eagerly started reading my way thru the documentation. . .then I read thru it again. Then I started trying to find that book I thought I'd remembered seeing once. Then I went to the P.C. website to see what other kinds of resources were listed there.
As I methodically began reading thru the 86 files of mailing lists I'd downloaded my visions began to lose those thousands of colors and turning this pale fading sepia. Instead of local girl makes good the daydreams started having these really awful Steinbeck-type endings. It got worse the more I searched for answers, leads, links, anything at all really by this time.
So to those of you, out there, who've already gotten up and running with WebCat and feel justifiably loyal and proud . . .
I'd sure like to join your ranks because I've got literally everything riding on this!
But I'm not sure where to go from here.
I can't start small because my projects aren't and they don't downsize without losing what they are.
I have these incredibly basic questions that don't really seem to be at the level you'all are at . . .
For example:
Is there a limit to the physical size of the webpages products are displayed on in order for WebCat to function?
I have larger graphics with many products displayed on them with the Buy now and product info next to where the product is on the page. Will WebCat work this way? In the manuel it seems like its designed to work with a separate graphic (or no graphic at all) per product.
I have sites I've designed with softwares such as Adobe PageMill, Adobe ImageReady, Dreamweaver, Photoshop etc. I had thought that Webcat could run on top of Webten and beneath the pages I'd made, so to speak.
Does it work in this way? And if so, where do I find info on how to tie it in?
Gee. And just in the time it's taken me to write this more folks have written in about how easy it all is.
If there are sources for basic newbie and really starting to panic here type questions I am used to studying like mad till I get up to speed but . . .
I would just give up and go away but poverty sucks far worse than the WebCat manuel.
I'd also just spend however long it took to get up to speed just aimlessly surfing about but my financial backer is starting to look at me like she's thinking I might show up on America's Most Wanted or something. She knows nada about computers and figured getting the websites up was a fairly simple process and if I'm working this hard why don't I have some functioning sites to show yet. (I had naively told her - once I get this software we'll be up and running in two weeks.) If I don't start getting somewhere fast . . .
Well, I've got to get the baby to bed so I guess I'll mail this.
But if any of you folks have any ideas or pamphlets like what everyone knows about how WebCat works but no one mentions that I could refer to I'd sure appreciate it.
All I want, really, is to become a multi-billionaire and spend the rest of my life performing random acts of goodwill wherever I go! : D
Thanks to all who take the time to read this and respond!
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At least the loyal response in defense of the folks at PC is encouraging . . .
Surely this software must be worth learning if it generates that sort of loyalty from its users.
The problem is that I bought WebCat because I thought it was going to enable me to get my projects up quickly. I'm way past deadline. I literally don't have another $600 to pay out to learn how to use it. And if I did,while I suppose videos would at least be something, hardcopy documentation that can be visuallyscanned and referred to quickly is really what I need to get started.
I was sure I had seen a book written about the popular software Web Catalog during some late night online surfing about. But now that I've bought WebCat and desperately need that book (or any book for that matter) naturally I haven't been able to find it.
So if any of you know of such a book . . .
I'm grateful a few of you have spoken at length though, because now I feel I can too! (not all the time of course but just this once)
I understand about the folks at P.C. being spread too thin and having to struggle with being a small company.
We're small also but we have some wondrously large dreams.
I'm a single mom with five children and this is my do or die attempt to get something going for us and my dear best friend who lost her husband and then suffered a major heart attack two days after Christmas and became disabled and my other friend who has provided financial backing so we've got this chance.
I've been struggling for months to learn languages, softwares, the mysterious workings of the Internet , servers, security and so forth. Trying to get up to speed with folks that have been immersed in this computer world for twenty years. (With total respect for the amount of knowledge, you understand, just too stubborn and desperate to give up.)
Then I read about WebCat and suddenly I felt hope! I went out on a limb and and arranged to purchase it. I too was looking forward to being part of something that seemed truly exciting. This software was going to make it happen! I'd add my sites to the lists of examples and speak in glowing terms of my life changing experience!
I was having those lovely thousands of colors visions of fulfilled expectations as I awaited WebCats arrival. My mental soundtrack was playing inspiring songs like - To dream the impossible dream, somewhere over the rainbow, take this job and shove it, . . . maybe some of you have had similar tunes playin? I could already see the headlines Woman refuses to give up! Undaunted by a grueling life of poverty she perseveres and at 43 . . . well, you get the idea : ) Me smiling modestly and saying,I really owe it all to those great folks at Pacific Coast Software and the fantastic software those geniuses created!!!
Then came the day!!! It arrived! I eagerly started reading my way thru the documentation. . .then I read thru it again. Then I started trying to find that book I thought I'd remembered seeing once. Then I went to the P.C. website to see what other kinds of resources were listed there.
As I methodically began reading thru the 86 files of mailing lists I'd downloaded my visions began to lose those thousands of colors and turning this pale fading sepia. Instead of local girl makes good the daydreams started having these really awful Steinbeck-type endings. It got worse the more I searched for answers, leads, links, anything at all really by this time.
So to those of you, out there, who've already gotten up and running with WebCat and feel justifiably loyal and proud . . .
I'd sure like to join your ranks because I've got literally everything riding on this!
But I'm not sure where to go from here.
I can't start small because my projects aren't and they don't downsize without losing what they are.
I have these incredibly basic questions that don't really seem to be at the level you'all are at . . .
For example:
Is there a limit to the physical size of the webpages products are displayed on in order for WebCat to function?
I have larger graphics with many products displayed on them with the Buy now and product info next to where the product is on the page. Will WebCat work this way? In the manuel it seems like its designed to work with a separate graphic (or no graphic at all) per product.
I have sites I've designed with softwares such as Adobe PageMill, Adobe ImageReady, Dreamweaver, Photoshop etc. I had thought that Webcat could run on top of Webten and beneath the pages I'd made, so to speak.
Does it work in this way? And if so, where do I find info on how to tie it in?
Gee. And just in the time it's taken me to write this more folks have written in about how easy it all is.
If there are sources for basic newbie and really starting to panic here type questions I am used to studying like mad till I get up to speed but . . .
I would just give up and go away but poverty sucks far worse than the WebCat manuel.
I'd also just spend however long it took to get up to speed just aimlessly surfing about but my financial backer is starting to look at me like she's thinking I might show up on America's Most Wanted or something. She knows nada about computers and figured getting the websites up was a fairly simple process and if I'm working this hard why don't I have some functioning sites to show yet. (I had naively told her - once I get this software we'll be up and running in two weeks.) If I don't start getting somewhere fast . . .
Well, I've got to get the baby to bed so I guess I'll mail this.
But if any of you folks have any ideas or pamphlets like what everyone knows about how WebCat works but no one mentions that I could refer to I'd sure appreciate it.
All I want, really, is to become a multi-billionaire and spend the rest of my life performing random acts of goodwill wherever I go! : D
Thanks to all who take the time to read this and respond!
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