September 29th, 2009 | 
Author: I have MS project, but I don’t want to send Project files to developers and clients and other stakeholders – what alternative solutions do you use?
Oh, use Basecamp! It’s an ajax application, free for one project and cost-effective if you have more than one project.
Lots of bells and whistles, easy to use.
Ajax, in case you’re wondering (you weren’t?) is a method of web application development using HTML, XML, CSS, the DOM, maybe a little XSL, and JavaScript (all standards-driven technologies) which turns a web app into something as responsive as a desktop application, through a delightfully arcane method called the (ready?) "http request object". It just means the application can continue to ask for things from the server without the usual extra mouse clicks or other user inputs. Google maps uses Ajax to get the parts of the map you haven’t looked at yet so when you drag the map off to the side, the new information is already there.
ANYway, my design company uses basecamp to keep track of projects (milestones, project documents, todo lists, even time tracking) for about thirteen projects, currently. We can see all of the projects, and our clients can see just their one project. It’s really that extra brain we’ve been wanting.
It’s not too hard to brand it with your company’s look and feel, either.
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Oh, use Basecamp! It’s an ajax application, free for one project and cost-effective if you have more than one project.
Lots of bells and whistles, easy to use.
Ajax, in case you’re wondering (you weren’t?) is a method of web application development using HTML, XML, CSS, the DOM, maybe a little XSL, and JavaScript (all standards-driven technologies) which turns a web app into something as responsive as a desktop application, through a delightfully arcane method called the (ready?) "http request object". It just means the application can continue to ask for things from the server without the usual extra mouse clicks or other user inputs. Google maps uses Ajax to get the parts of the map you haven’t looked at yet so when you drag the map off to the side, the new information is already there.
ANYway, my design company uses basecamp to keep track of projects (milestones, project documents, todo lists, even time tracking) for about thirteen projects, currently. We can see all of the projects, and our clients can see just their one project. It’s really that extra brain we’ve been wanting.
It’s not too hard to brand it with your company’s look and feel, either.
M
E
References :
http://www.basecamphq.com/tour
http://www.basecamphq.com/signup