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Choosing the right icons the first time

This is an official companion piece to my April 20th post, "Choosing the right name the first time."

The Icon Makeover continues to draw rave reviews (not one negative comment yet!). The client truly looks great, but unfortunately, all of the old screenshots on the web site don't look so great. Today was spent updating screenshots, whether just replacing icons or redoing the screenshots entirely.

If you're bored, you can check out the updated screenshots:

• Frontpage Montage
  
• Features - Text Messaging (except Mac)
  
• Features - File Sharing
  
• Features - Presence
  
• Features - Logging
  
• Documentation, icons updated - Sending Files, Logging, Sharing Files, Voice Chat, Whiteboard Basics, and Getting Started with BitWise Professional
  
• Documentation, redone - Grouped Conversation View

Still to do:

• Features - Text Messaging (Mac)
  
• Documentation - Confenences
  
• Documentation - BitWise Basics

Actually, I encourage you to check out the BitWise Basics documentation again, those screenshots are hopelessly outdated and show what BitWise of yesteryear (version 1.0.0) looked like. Before long, those screenshots will be replaced, so don't delay.

The moral of the story is to pick the right icons (and the right name) the first time and you can save a lot of aggravation down the line.