Tuesday, July 22, 2008

User-Friendly

I learned something about myself today with the Inspiration Software. It was the same message I learned in 1985 while a student at Ohio State taking a mainframe computer programing class. It was do or die - learn it or drop the class and I said to my self, "self, you have to take the risk to make a mistake and start over if you have to, nothing ventured nothing gained". By the end of that day I had written a Pascal program that ran and did everything I had hoped it would.
In Inspiration I didn't know where everything I am used to using while formatting was but found that Control Z worked as undo in this program same as many others. So, I was to not get to far away from what worked. I realized computer programmers in the 20+ years since I learned how to work with computers figured that if "people can't use it then people won't buy it" (user-friendly).

I am pretty pleased with my work product while using Inspiration and already have many ideas for future storyboards.

I also signed up for a web page on Freewebs.com it was pretty easy. Something else I was worried about but again User-Friendly. Niiiice.
Later,
Bryan

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