Product Blog update: Backpack "How to" pages, ProofHQ integration with Basecamp, etc. Jul 08
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Some recent posts at the 37signals Product Blog:
Basecamp
ProofHQ and Basecamp: Offer your project team richer review and approval tools
“ProofHQ integration with Basecamp” explains how to add ProofHQ proofs to your Basecamp projects. (ProofHQ is a web-based design collaboration, proofing and approval tool for brands, agencies, designers, print and production.)
Backpack
One of our favorite uses for Backpack: “How to” pages
One way we love to use Backpack is for “how to” pages that guide us through confusing tech waters. These tutorial pages mean we don’t have to waste time relearning processes from scratch.
CSS tip for customizing the appearance of Backpack pages
“If you use Backpack, the organizing web tool and intranet from 37signals, you may sometimes wish you could modify the text on a page to fit a little more information on it. I have a page where I collect code snippets and terminal commands and the default font seems a bit large with so much content. Turns out there’s an easy solution to this: simply add a small amount of CSS to the page in the form of a note and you can change the formatting to meet your needs.”
Highrise
Web consultant touts forwarding email into Highrise
“With Highrise, you blind-carbon copy a special drop box, something like dropbox@999999997.rkg.highrisehq.com. The app does all the hard work, determining who you are from the dropbox subdomain, parsing the email to determine where to file it it the CRM system, and associating the message with the right people and companies and dates.”
Getting Real
Getting Real reader now “living in passion and designing a product that is actually useful”
“I decided start my own software company with a friend from college. The idea we have is great (I think) and I’m finally having fun writing software again, because I’m writing it under constraints—the constraints of my day job, and of real life. Gone are my class diagrams, design documents, and long-winded e-mails. I have arrived at a happy place of producing features and code, living in passion, and designing a product that is actually useful (or will be, I hope)!”
Over 1 million people use 37signals' simple web-based software to collaborate on projects, track contacts, and organize their business with an intranet.
5 comments so far
Brandon Durham 08 Jul 08
At the Seed conference I noticed that Jason was using a menu bar at the top of his screen to switch between 37signals products during his presentation. Am I a moron and completely missing this in the software (I have paid Basecamp, Backpack and Campfire accounts) or is this feature only available internally? Am I crazy? What was that?
JF 08 Jul 08
Brandon: That is the 37signals Open Bar and it’s available to everyone who uses OpenID logins.
mkb 08 Jul 08
Perforce: making the complex easy (branching and rebasing) and the easy complex (rolling back a revision, a 9 step process)
Brandon Durham 08 Jul 08
Fantastic. Thanks Jason.
Mike 08 Jul 08
Isn’t the Backpack CSS trick a repeat from last week?
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