Wizards of the Coast, lacking in Web-fu.
Thanks to Propagandroid over at The Gamer Dome for tipping me off to these great posts!
One of the things that has irritated me since becoming a D&D player is the utter crap that is WotC’s website. It is hard on the eyes, to put it bluntly. I don’t think I’ve ever managed to find exactly what I came looking for… I just poke around until I get a headache and then leave.
My solution - subscribe to the RSS feeds and read those. If something there is worthy of my eyes bleeding, I’ll click through to WotC.
For a company with such a great product, a great web presence is necessary - especially in an age where people Google for everything they want to know.
Right now, Wizards’ web-fu is seriously lacking. Men with Pens should do a drive-by shooting - they’d have plenty to talk about!
Anyhoo, Chibbs over at Dragon Avenue is a professional web designer and he has two videos that you have to check out. The first is about why the WotC website sucks.
In the second, Chibbs shows WotC what their website could look like if they put it in the hands of more skilled web developers.
What a difference!
I dunno about you, but if I were WotC, I’d be putting in an offer to hire this guy, no matter what the cost. He’d be worth every penny in my opinion!
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Ha! I was wondering what happened to those guys after 3rdedition.org. Chibbs has got mad skillz.
Honestly, it’s the reason I stopped going to the site. It used to be a LOT simpler, still not perfect, but it didn’t take 20 minutes to find something. Now they have an archive (for the few articles they still produce), and archive for the archive (in the archive section is an archive button. WTF), and archive for deleted articles. Have archives be all old files dammit!
Also, the fact that they used to have a related posts/previous entires in an article and they got rid of that makes no sense to me. Nor does why you can’t organize the files by Campaign setting like you used to.
In the archive of the archive of the archived archives, you should find what you’re look for!
Same here Mystrich, I used to visit the site on a weakly basis back when 3.0 first came out but is so cluttered I don’t like going to the site at all now, is to much work to try and find ANYTHING at all. Is like they patch stuff on top of the old stuff with out taking the old material out, is a big jumbled mess.