Boxes? >_<

[Eon-Rider]

For lots of forum software and other scripts, the companies usually advertise using boxes.

It seems professional but is it just me or is it a little odd how the advertise like that?

For example:
Invision Power Board

Burning Board

 

[Drifblim]

I noticed that too; it must be a hidden authority.

I guess they want to emphasise the fact that it's installed onto the server rather than included in the server package itself (and I shudder to see it put on NetWare by default). Maybe the box is real, then....

 

[Geometric-sama]

Maybe they just like showing off their graphics skillz in box making. :)

 

[Steve Z]

I don't know, maybe there is a way to get a CD, i mean mozilla has one for FireFix and ThunderBird, even thought its free software <.<

 

[Mirror of Hope]

USUALLY when they display a box it means that the product is avaliable to buy in stores or shipped upon special request.

 

[Cherrim]

It's probably to reel in customers who aren't exactly net-savvy. A lot of people won't readily realise that they can buy things online and not ever physically hold said purchases in their hands. So displaying a box, real or not, sort of tells the customer that they aren't wasting their money on nothing and that what they're buying is a real program. (Since most programs that you buy in stores come in boxes much like that.) It gives a higher sense of professionalism and encourages people who aren't used to buying things online to buy their things because it "looks like" something they'd buy in a store.

That'd be my guess. :O

 

[Eon-Rider]

USUALLY when they display a box it means that the product is avaliable to buy in stores or shipped upon special request.

Well if they were able to be bought in stores, IPS and other companies would have hardly any control over their products.