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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Lynch" data-source="post: 4342849" data-attributes="member: 64850">First of all, and I mean this in a constructive way, your website sucks. Here's why:* Header is hard to read, I thought it was because it was being stretched, but no, that image was designed to look like that. Why?* Your homepage is too busy with very little delineation between areas. Make a decision, is the homepage there to display new products or to give people news? Because it shouldn't be for both as it just comes out as a mess.* Those buttons are clumsy and aren't impressing anyone. If you must have them, but some padding between the button and the cell wall.* Not all of your links work. Gambitcon '08 to Wings of War Fridays don't work. If you're going to code this yourself you need to test it better.* On your calendar I see entries for lots of things, but none for D&D. This isn't exactly going to attract me to your store. Also on the events page you've got D&D listed last. If the D&D part of your business is failing, you need to give it more of a push, and putting it at the bottom of the page isn't going to achieve that.* Put in a Pbp section on your forum. Include a sticky to such resources as the <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/" target="_blank">d20srd</a>. I cut my teeth on that and I eagerly awaited 4e so I could get the books.* Be more personable. I don't know if it would be a good idea to say why you're closing on Mondays, but <a href="http://www.gamersgambitonline.com/forums/yaf_postst124_Closing-Mondays.aspx" target="_blank">this aint friendly</a>. A "Unfortunately we'll be closed on mondays starting June 2nd" would be better then "That is all" <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />* Put the "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" section just below Gambitcon on the forum. When I load that forum I'm not seeing an area to talk about D&D. I'm seeing Forum Rules and General Discussion with a Chatter section* Consolidate your sections on the forum. There isn't a lot of discussion at the moment and you DON'T want a forum that looks dead. Instead have "Cards", "Dungeons and Dragons", "Comics", "Video Games" (include MMOs here), "<a href="http://www.gamersgambitonline.com/forums/yaf_topics28_Warhammer-Fantasy40KBlood-Bowl.aspx" target="_blank">Warhammer Fantasy/40K/Blood Bowl</a>", "<a href="http://www.gamersgambitonline.com/forums/yaf_topics22_Heroclix-Haloclix--Horrorclix.aspx" target="_blank">Heroclix, Haloclix & Horrorclix</a>", "Other Games" That's halved it.I saw nothing about this on your website.Having said all that, you've got some pretty good ideas. I particularly like the calendar (although it needs more D&D stuff) and forums. Although if you aren't going to get the Online Store put up by the end of July, include prices next to the RPG products. If you're prices truly are comparable to Amazon (I find $5 difference comparable) then push this fact forward as much as you can.is simply silly to me. I have no ties to you, and you say if I don't have ties with you I'm somehow part of a problem (otherwise why would people care if you die) is offensive.Well let's look at what you've done to push forward your store to the D&D crowd. You saidwhich as someone who came into D&D without ever entering an LGS, is simply silly. Your saying that if FLGS's die out (or simply migrate away from gaming) that people like me will be all that's left for WotC to cater to and this is a bad thing. Wow, I'm going to jump right over to your store! You need to put yourself forward as a worthwhile member of the D&D community, which isn't done by telling people you're a worthwhile member of the community. How could you do that? Well I don't see you holding any RPGA events. That would be a start. I'm hoping an FLGS here in Australia might eventually hold one so I could check it out, see what the store's atmosphere is like.I'm not going to drive all the way to your store just to see what out of print books you have. You're going to have to get me that information through your website somehow.I hate these policies and refuse to eat anything in places that have them (unless they're a restaurant, corner store, etc and their business is to sell food rather then to sell gaming material). So if you have one, I'm going to refuse to eat any of your stuff and after 3 hours I'm going to be hungry so I won't return.Why not just have the government give them money then? That's effectively what you're asking for.Not true, because there will be multiple online vendors and so there will still be competition.</blockquote>

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