Comments on: The way things are

By: Brian Hunter

Brian Hunter — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:56:34 +0000

Rob,I am rather impatient, but guess I will just have to wait until the new one is complete. I imagine it will be great when finished.
Thanks for all your hard work.
Best regards

By: Michael Pacillo

Michael Pacillo — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:27:42 +0000

Rob, my thanks to you for your ongoing dedication to WEB DEVELOPERS (regardless of Mac or PC affiliation). Your dedication to this craft has allowed me to feed my family by designing many sites, all working AND LOOKING beautiful because of MenuMachine.

Way back when, I gambled on GoLive once it was bought by Adobe. I figured GoLive had two of the best “plug-ins” in the world, Illustrator and Photoshop. Then the bombshell merger that blew us all away, and I knew Adobe were destined to kill-off GoLive. Oh well…

Stay the course Rob, I believe your decision to build an awesome stand-alone is a respectable decision – and a proper one, given the climate of change in the web and personal computing world. My loyalty remains with you, Big Bang, and MenuMachine. I can’t wait to see how awesome it will turn out! Cheers ~

By: Rob Keniger

Rob Keniger — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:02:18 +0000

@Andre:
We are literally working as fast as we can to get MenuMachine 3 out the door. MenuMachine 3 is much more powerful and feature-laden than MenuMachine 2 and has been written from scratch with zero legacy code. I wish it had been ready a year ago but building a full-blown application takes time.

By: Andre

Andre — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:22:27 +0000

Hi Rob, I was thrilled by MenuMashine and had long to wait for MenuMashine for DW, but before I decided to have other tools. A great pity for me that I had MM for always remained faithful. Then, I think, all transfers. Shame that you’ve obviously not in a hurry..

By: Dermot Cottuli

Dermot Cottuli — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:40:02 +0000

Being involved in web design for the past 8 years and a GL user for the main part of that I’m thrilled that you’re still developing MM and I totally understand your justification for going Mac only. The people who are disappointed need to realise that not everyone has a million dollar R&R budget and sacrifices need to be made. I think you’ve made the right choice Rob and I’m speaking from experience.

What people don’t seem to understand is that once you have a fully working version for Mac released and working well it will then free you up to reassess if developing a PC version is financially viable. I have a sneaking suspicion that you’ll do even better than you’re projecting and that a PC version will one day be a reality.

On the other hand, they could all migrate to the superior platform lol

By: Alexander Zaalberg

Alexander Zaalberg — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:00:15 +0000

Great to hear this software will go on as stand alone on mac.

Sorry for the windows users, but, when you google menu makers you will notice ALL dhtml menu makers (some real great ones) run on the windows platform and none on the OS X platform.

You were the only one.

Most graphic designers (the printing business) use macs. Only the hard core webdesigners/scripters use PC’s.

I personally changed from PS to MAC because my interests shifted from 100% webdesign to all over Graphic Design.

So I think your MAC choice is a right one. Very likely it will make your software the only DHTML menu maker available for the MAC operating system. There is (as far as I know)nothing else.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:34:15 +0000

I just read the news that MenuMachine 3 will be Mac ONLY. And to say the least I’m more than a little disappointed. I know there is no way to change your mind but I think you were a little short sighted with your choice. Yes, maybe you’ve sold 70% of MenuMachine to Mac users. But what you should be considering is more than that. What percentage of menus out there on the web were created with MM for Windows compared to Mac? Maybe, just maybe the Windows people are using your product more than Mac users in sheer volume. Also, with MM moving to Dreamweaver did you consider how many Dreamweaver users are PC based?? Are you content with only selling to your current customers? That’s short sighted businesswise. You state that you don’t have the resources to develop for both platforms, understandable I guess. But with some better marketing you’d probably bring in more profits from the PC side since there are so many more of us! IF you sold to 1% of the Dreamweaver/GoLive users on the PC side it would be much more than if you sold to 30% or more on the Mac side. I think you should reconsider or at the very least come out with a PC version in a year or so…but saying that this is “the end of the line” for Windows users?? That’s business suicide.

By: pat

pat — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:39:08 +0000

dear rob and janet,
such good news! i have been avoiding the transition from GL to DW hoping for this. now that i know there is hope, i will start trying to get into DW again.
thank you for a great product and all your support day and night when i have been seriously stumped.
good luck and PLEASE keep doing what you do!
sincerely,
pat

By: Ron Hinds

Ron Hinds — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:09:46 +0000

…
Pain in the toosh -… but I can wait ’till end of 1st qtr.

Thanks Rob for the 10-08 update.
Ron

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:14:47 +0000

Any headway on this project?