Ok. So I guess it’s my turn.
My name is Chris Turner, and I have been involved in building websites since around 1997. My first web development software was Netscape Composer, then quickly changed to Macromedia Dreamweaver when it first came out. Moved to Dreamweaver UltraDev when our agency clients started to ask for more “dynamic” web sites. I have used Dreamweaver almost exclusively since those days. Wow how things have changed since then.
I stayed with Dreamweaver throughout all their changes. I used Interakt and DMX when they started to enhance the capabilities of Dreamweaver. I’ve been a DMX customer since about 2004 I guess and have purchased over 100 extensions through the years. Thank goodness they really stepped up to the plate when Adobe acquired Macromedia and Dreamweaver started going “downhill”. Their extensions made development so much better and faster. When I learned that DMX was developing their own IDE and platform, I knew it would be a success. It just made sense for them to go in that direction.
So I will tell you what Wappler means to me. I co-own a software company that develops warehouse management systems. I built the first version of our platform in 2005 exclusively with Dreamweaver and DMX Extensions. Now, my full time job is running the company, talking to customers and overseeing our datacenter operations. I have a development team that codes in ASP.NET and they produce 90% of our code for our products. However, they are some parts of our product that I continue to code, and if it wasn’t for DMX with their extensions and Wappler, I would not be able to do it. Wappler, plain and simple, saves me time and that saves me money. It allows me to produce content for my customers in the limited amount of time I can devote to web development. I am able to start and finish jobs in days instead of weeks or months. The other advantage is this community forum right here. We’ve all visited other forums like Stack Exchange but here, we have a true user community where we can ask product specific questions. Where else can you openly communicate with the founder of the company and the support team and give ideas and suggestions… And they listen to you and act on your suggestions and ideas?
I could not have stayed in web development for this long without help from these guys. They make my job easier and faster, and my clients are happy. My team will continue to develop with ASP.NET and Visual Studio, but now with Wappler, I will continue to stay with George and his team for my smaller projects. Just yesterday I received this quote from my contact at a major US retailer:
“This is unbelievable! Even though I should come to expect this kind of work, it is always cool to see. Stacy loved it. Almost moved her to tears because we nailed it so quickly!”
That statement was made possible because of Wappler.
And that is my story…