Comments on: New GW US website

By: Blackhawk

Blackhawk — Sat, 17 May 2008 09:06:07 +0000

>any news on the sites for places like Germany or Spain?
The German GW page is runned by a seperate “team” (not that much people ^^) and it’s still the same crowded page like yesterday and the day before yesterday. It’s based on an older GW-UK template IIRC.

And we’ve got a news feed. :D

By: netpixie

netpixie — Sat, 17 May 2008 06:40:24 +0000

As a humble web user rather than a grand “web designer”, I think its rubbish.

Why is two thirds of my screen wasted space, with only the central third being used?

Its not as if they not got the stuff to display because there are those three stupid little scrolling areas in the middle.

Why duplicate the functionality of my browser (I have a perfectly good scroll bar on my right hand side already) in a tiny subwindow with the added “bonus” of disabling my scroll wheel?

And, yes, I do realise that the old one was fixed width as well, but new websites are meant to improve on the old ones, not repeat their errors, and at least the old one flowed the content all the way down so you could easily see all they had to offer.

By: evernevermore (John)

evernevermore (John) — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:06:30 +0000

Who knows - perhaps one of the “good” decisions is Apocalypse - and atleast for my armies 5th sounds like a good decision - course its GW maybe they went back to thier Roots and are using a d100 table…

anyways - any news on the sites for places like Germany or Spain?

By: Zac

Zac — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:38:40 +0000

Lets try not to turn this into a general GW gripe-fest :-)

By: stormwolf

stormwolf — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:00:40 +0000

(Whatever, GW does what it does, logic be damned. Sometimes I swear it’s a bunch of dudes in a UK office rolling a D6 and consulting a chart when it comes to decisions! Be interesting to see what comes next I suppose).

Nice one T34, however if that were true, then by the law of averages they should make a “good” decision now and again.

Then again, that all depends on the table(s) they are using I suppose LOL!

By: T34

T34 — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:18:40 +0000

A little of both. I know some of the guys who’ve been through this web transition process these past months and listened to their gripes about it along the way. Pretty poorly managed affair. As to the future, that’s mostly speculation - because they don’t have jobs anymore…

Whatever, GW does what it does, logic be damned. Sometimes I swear it’s a bunch of dudes in a UK office rolling a D6 and consulting a chart when it comes to decisions! Be interesting to see what comes next I suppose.

By: Zac

Zac — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:53:57 +0000

Have you had this confirmed or are you speculating?

By: T34

T34 — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:38:11 +0000

New content, don’t hold your breath. It’s not a matter of the site’s size - it’s manpower, and priority. Right now content is obviously a waaaaaaaaaaaaaay back seat priority to giant pictures of boxed sets (excitement!) and then there’s the fact that like 2 guys are left (who have little web experience) to attempt to put out new articles via a nightmarish WSYIG content interface.

Oh, expect new releases and such to be there on time, but not the interesting words and pictures that form cohesive articles. It costs money to employ creative persons to push interesting/useful articles about the hobby. Money obviously better spent on spiffy drop down menus. Black Gobbo’s dead. Them days are over. Expect more dull, bland, White Dwarf style state approved “new release of the month” crud on the web. Occasionally. Maybe.

By: Zac

Zac — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:25:12 +0000

Many of the Epic army lists are not there.

By: Karandras_sh (Neil)

Karandras_sh (Neil) — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:14:55 +0000

Just Looking through Specialist games section and a lot of the articles are missing!

By: voxpop

voxpop — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:12:33 +0000

Well, looks like they’re running on JBoss…since all I can see is the JBoss Management Console links…

At least it’s Open Source.

By: evernevermore (John)

evernevermore (John) — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:11:39 +0000

Zac your facilitating other people breaking the internet :P

to the web dev guys who posted - any guess on when content would pop up on a site this size? are we talking in terms of days, weeks, months?

By: CPBelt

CPBelt — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:10:48 +0000

It’s back up. Meh. It’s ok. Looks like everyone else’s. It’s designed for impulse buying that’s for sure. I wonder if the tactic will work?

By: Zac

Zac — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:50:28 +0000

It appears to be back up at the moment. Maybe the page you saw was a load error caused by too many people hitting the site.

By: Zac

Zac — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:46:14 +0000

Lets leave the Opera comments for another time :-)