FAQ.Old_Style_Web_Design.txt

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Questions answered in this FAQ are:

Q. Why the imapsync website looks so old fashion?

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Q. Why the imapsync website looks so old fashion?

R. Once in a while I receive messages from people complaining about 
the website style, not that much about the content by the way,
as people don't read.

I know the imapsync website has a grandmother style,
I'm not offended by complaints about it.

Here are several reasons it stays like that for now:

* I like to do things myself

* I like static web

* I'm proud to be w3c compliant
  https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=https%3A%2F%2Fimapsync.lamiral.info
  Very very few sites are w3c compliant, it's because all CMS frameworks aren't.

* I prefer to spend more time on the product itself than the showcase

* The product is a command line, a fancy website to sell a command line
  makes more disappointed buyers


I agree I could do some sort of A/B experiment and see whether during
a month I sell more imapsync on a brand new style B site than
the current A one.


Besides, don't misunderstand buyers. The surprising thing about complainers
is that all are web designers, none is a user not in the webdesign branch. 
I even received some phone call from a buyer saying: "I saw your website 
and I told to myself: this can't be a fake one, the product must be a good one".

Another folk like me:
http://keyhut.com/pos.htm
(well, not w3c compliant, since only mad people try to be w3c compliant)