>I'm with you 100% on this one! :o)

I guess that proves there REALLY is no accounting for taste! ;)

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>>Hi all
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>>There's no accounting for taste. One place I worked, when we started on a job they insisted we make a splash screen, an icon etc before any other parts of the system. This supposedly gave some users the feeling we were more professional than other shops. I really thought that was putting the sizzle way before the steak.
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>>My take is this. A cute little animation that runs while waiting to log in or during other waiting periods is OK. A little graphic form background is nice. I usually have a pageframe covering most of the form, so it's very slight. If you start MS Word, there's a splash screen. If you close all open word documents, but leave word running, you get this big ugly grey area. Certainly something should go there? How about a few simple directions: Click the New button to start a new document. Click Open to open an existing document.
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>>It wouldn't hurt a Word expert. It would help a word novice that just accidentally closed everything. It's not just about making things pretty, but pretty and useful, IMO.
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>>>LOL, terrible programmer and PROUD OF IT apparently. <g> Aside from a general trend (not a RULE) of developers not being good at graphics (as suggested by Christof), we're also usually not the best marketers. A LOT of end users out there just LOVE the glitz & glitter and little toys that we developers, as Tore voiced, seek to turn off immediately upon installation. :) (i.e. office assistant for me). Whether someone's a developer or not, there will still be differing opinions & the suggestion to add something to the interface to turn these things on/off or insert their own backgrounds, etc... are all good ideas.
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>>>As far as where to get help with these things, I haven't done EXTENSIVE searching, but you can usually find decent graphics on the web for free. Of course, you want to really make sure you're not swiping someone else's copyrighted material, but there's stuff out there. If you want something really slick looking, you'll probably need to look up a professional graphic designer.
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>>>>I have even seen "terrible programmer" who write "Developed by: XXXX" in background wallpaper.
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>>>>Yes From Developers' View Point you are right.
>>>>Adding the wallpaper doesn't mean that our App is not Good. You Right about those "who try to compensate his lack of programming skills by adding silly eyecatchers instead", But not about good ones. If your program is good then Why should not Add to elegance???