[ic] Frustrated with IC 4.8

[Tim Watts]

on 9/17/01 10:47 AM, Jonathan Clark at jonc@webmaint.com wrote:

> It does not go unnoticed that you take the time amongst the *real* work to
> read messages on the list and even sweep up unanswered queries on _Sundays_.
> 
> I am sure I speak for the majority in saying thankyou for this and your
> extreme level-headedness (restraint?) with your replies that I have seen
> over the last three years. I wish people would appreciate this a little
> more.


My sentiments exactly!

Earlier this year, my brother came to me to help build an online store.
We investigated every package we could find, with prices ranging from a few
hundred dollars to well over $5,000. Custom built stores with all the
features he wanted were in the $10-20,000+ range.

We chose Interchange with the astronomical price of... $0!

One reason for the choice was that I am no perl expert. I hunt, peck, copy
and paste, cry, pray, and jump for joy when I finally get it right! With IC,
I was able to logically build the store with the IC tags and very little
actual perl programming. I even scrapped our original product review
software and used IC because of the easy of programming. I was able to
customize the admin UI to add some features specific to his store. I never
could have done this with any other package! I'm not saying it was easy. It
took about 3-4 months of late nights, all nights and weekends (this isn't my
full time job, but sure felt like it) to get it up and running, but was well
worth the effort. My brother is well please. His customers rave over their
new shopping interface (he was using Free Merchant), and I'm in the process
of building several new stores. My 15 year old son is even working with IC
now for a school project!

Thanks for a great product, Mike! Keep up the good work!

Thanks for the help from this list and the archives! The IC community is one
of co-operation and helpfullness, and I for one am grateful!

Thanks and God bless,
Tim