"Larry Linson" <no****@nospam.net> wrote in message
news:1118376102.e7092ebd6d3ca2173075fa427ae1fffa@t eranews...
"xtra" <wi**********@hottermail.com> wrote in message
news:41******************@news.xtra.co.nz... Hi Folk
I looked at the Northwind Sample Database for the first time recently
and I
was just wondering why they made it so ugly. If northwind is supposed
to be
inspiring to young and hopeful access programmers then why does it look
straight out of an 1984 slapstick? MS Corp surely must have a couple of
capable designers to make things look pretty. Did I offend anyone? It
is just my opinion, i may be wrong so do not take it personally ... I live
on a
windswept, God-forgotten island in the roaring fourties.
What is your opinion on this?
- Nicolaas
Practically everything I know about Access I learned from studying the
Northwind demo. In my opinion it's one of the best examples of a
full-function Access database ever made, although I don't know about the
latest versions because I only use Access 97. Most of my databases begin
as a copy of the Northwind demo and then I modify the demo to suit my
client's needs.
Ok, so you are saying that it is not really about the look and feel, but
about the concepts in northwind. Fair enough, but then I use MS Access
mainly because you can so super fast develop a front end and front-ends are
all about the look and feel.
I work with Access 2003, but it just looks like it was created in 83.
Should I conclude that MS does not really care about Access?
Nicolaas
