Comments on: Development update

By: Trevor Gilchrist

Trevor Gilchrist — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:05:42 +0000

Just know that we’re still here and hoping. If it ain’t gonna happen, then tell us that too. I have seven commercial sites active that rely on MM. It is the reason I’m still stuck in GoLive. A pro coder would laugh at my dependency, but that’s fine. MM let’s me be creative without the pain.

Just give us an update, one way or the other. We’re all grown-ups here.

By: David

David — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:34:07 +0000

I don’t envy you guys.

By: Uri

Uri — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:49:47 +0000

I’ll be here when MM3 finally appears, cannot wait! Spry menus are horrid.

By: Di

Di — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:01:17 +0000

Can I assume that all MM Customers will be emailed with an announcement of the new version? I check this board frequently, and think I will just await the announcement…

Hope everyone can engage in worthwhile endeavors that make life worth living until the release — it really is so very much FUN to be here, despite all the things we are told in our own heads that can easily be ignored. I’ll say it again and again, thank you Rob for creating such a great product…

By: ROD

ROD — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:58:40 +0000

I have a slightly different form of empathy for you, Rob. We’ve been in the CMS business since 1999, when hardly anyone, except those corporations with big money and healthy IT budgets, knew what a CMS was. Today, there are thousands of CMS’s, perhaps tens of thousands. My empathy, sympathy really, for you comes from my experiences working with coders, not the coding itself, which you seem to be doing by yourself, or with a very small staff. I’m a developer, but my undergraduate degree was in painting. I learned long ago, however, how to communicate with this particular species, i.e., software engineers. Since we created our first CMS, my company’s been through three senior coders, each one of them dead set on “improving,” “simplifying,” “uncovering the subtleties of the code,” etc., and each one has started from scratch. We’re now trying to finish our third re-write, and I find myself in it too deep to quit, yet each day I find myself losing faith in my original vision of being able to change my little corner of the web for the better every time time another one of our loyal customers loses patience and leaves. But we keep slogging on, and the burn rate continues. Like you, someday we’ll have something to offer, but I’m also acutely aware of the risks of delaying a release of a software product, especially one like yours that has a loyal following. And you should be aware of the risks too. Like so many others, I’m rooting for you Rob, but don’t be too surprised to find that when you finally are able announce your product, that nobody will be in the audience. They will have moved on. I hope, for both of our sakes, that this final nightmare doesn’t materialize.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:53:23 +0000

Have spent fruitless hours try in to find a substitute for MM. Was forced to switch to Dreamweaver after Adobe dropped GoLive and have used Drop Down Menus from Extend. But nothing comes close to the ease of use of MM. Can’t wait for final release.

By: noel

noel — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:49:37 +0000

Menumachine is still the easiest and most versatile solution despite all attempts to fill the void.

I also am anxious to integrate into
dreamweaver, but think that patience leads to better products.

If the app could be a plugin for WordPress– I would be in web-design heaven.

By: Ross

Ross — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:13:24 +0000

Hate to say it, but I have to move on too. I’ll check back in six months and see if MM3 has finally made it out of the gates. Best of luck. It was always a good product.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:14:24 +0000

As much as I would like to express enthusiasm over this new hurdle being crossed, it’s been a year and a half since this was announced. I really can’t wait one more month for this to reach fruition, must look for an alternative at this point. I still wish you the best and hope to one day come back here and fall in love with MenuMachine again!

By: Gerlinde

Gerlinde — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:01:10 +0000

sooo good news! Waiting for the dreamweaver-release, like all the other webcreators. So, I keep my fingers cross, that this will come up soon.

Regards,
Gerlinde from Germany