Comments on: Quick Web Creations Review

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:06:44 +0000

Hi Bill, glad you found us here! QWC is a very nice tool, although if you added the ability to save projects and work on them again later to the basic membership, it’d be an outstanding one.

BTW, FreshBadge.com looks very nice, too. I hadn’t seen that one before, but it looks quite useful.

By: Bill Ortell

Bill Ortell — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:02:37 +0000

I’m very glad to see you all taking the QuickWebCreations concept and others so seriously I’m actually glad I saw these posts… (by accident I must say) but as the designer/developer/owner/creator of QWC - I wanted to just quickly comment.

The $27 is lifetime with upgrades within itself as time progresses… just an FYI… and yes INDEED there are dozens of *frankly, really great* free tools on the ‘net - but the difficulty comes in:

1. professional quality
2. extensive features
3. combining effects from one site into another’s 4. ease of use for complex designs/results -

many people discount #4 above… entirely!
some people have no problem going and spending hours per week creating graphics - having to do multiple file saves, and going to multiple sites, to accomplish what takes literaly seconds to accomplish on the development of great professional high-quality images… (which was secret and I used solely until I launched it for the public use).

Topics that make it REALLY useful - are:
1. gradients (outlines, interior fill)
2. one-click reflections
3. reflecting not just text, not just images, but both!
4. yadda yadda

Anyways, just wanted to make sure you all were aware of some of these things… and (oh, btw) the $27 is LIFETIME :).

This fee also helps for development of future upgrades, enhancements, other projects that continually are offered to current members at ‘grandfathered’ pricing/discounts (for example - those that got into QWC before the $27 were able to upgrade at $17 not $37.

I’m very open to your comments though but wanted to just make sure you both (and others’) were aware of just some of the reasons/diff’s of QWC and other online apps :).

(PS. did you both check out one of my first apps created? (not sure if this is allowed, but remove if necessary - freshbadge.com - it’s 100% free and pretty slick))

Anyways, have a great July 2008 all!

By: Rosa

Rosa — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:33:26 +0000

Thanks for the mini review Jay. If you look hard enough on the Internet, you can almost find everything bing offered for free but it may not be as good as the other(hey it’s free though).

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:37:37 +0000

A helpful reader emailed me to say that FlamingText.com offers similar services, for free.

I checked it out, and wanted to give everyone a quick mini-review…FlamingText.com is comparable to the basic membership at QuickWebCreations, although I found it more difficult to use. In some ways there weren’t quite as many options, although you could do effects at FlamingText.com that you couldn’t at QuickWebCreations.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:24:15 +0000

Me too, Rosa. I think saving and loading designs should have been part of the basic service, not an upgrade. If the basic service had been free, I could see not providing saving/loading, but not since they’re charging for it.

By: Rosa

Rosa — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:06:34 +0000

I hate it when they make it sound like it is a really good deal and it might be but then they expect you to upgrade to get the full service. I guess that if it is worth it then it would alright. I have never been good at making these graphics.