[netwrk219]

I have phpcow. I am in the process of trying to figure out what it is all about. My first impression is that it isnt what it looks like. The templates are made to look good, but they arent functional. for example. the part of the nytimes template that looks like featured news with four or so thumbnails (one of the band Nirvana) with text underneath them, well, they are just one big image, made to look that way, not editable areas of actual content.

I am having a problem getting their support to explain how the system works, their english isnt the best and they seem to think that because I dont automatically get it, I must be defective. I have had them get noticeably frustrated with me when I ask why this doesnt work well, when I made repeated requests for documentation, i was told to go to the tutorials, which are two flash tutorials, explaining, badly, blocks and one, quite good tutorial for adding an article. but they dont explain editing templates at all, or how to get content to appear where you want it.

Plus, sigh...sorry, but I am beginning to feel like I got ripped off here....plus I did a search on the net and I cant find one actual customer review of their site. i found 4 reviews on hotscripts that were written by the same person, I know this because I cant believe that two people would spell staff incorrectly the same way (they spelled it "stuff") and three of the four said that phpcow...rock! almost exactly the same way.

I am so on the fence about them right now. I want to believe this is going to work out, but unless something is done to make me feel otherwise, I am going to have to look for a new system again. Maybe newsphp.com, but I would need to get extensive information from them before I would hand over any cash at all. I already handed over hundreds to phpcow and as a nonprofit news site, I cant keep losing money that I dont make back, since we dont generate revenue on my site, we just report news.

I hope this helps anyone who has a question and if anyone is familiar with phpcow and can help me figure out what the heck I am supposed ot be doing, I would appreciate it.