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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ketjak" data-source="post: 2403621" data-attributes="member: 1083">Aside: Monte's Site?I used to visit <a href="http://www.montecook.com" target="_blank">www.montecook.com</a> all the time - more frequently than ENWorld for a time. Since the top-level page turned into a huge graphic (loads fast on broadband, but the UI issues remain), I've visited fewer than ten times. Reasons:Much of my web surfing is done on a Treo 600 wireless PDA. Monte's graphic is illegible on that screen, and I have no idea if an image map works on the Blazer browser. UI is less usable: The graphic is a cover analog in a digitial medium that requires no cover. Most of the graphic is inert non-clickable space. On a web page that's silly. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />UI interferes with accessing information: To find out if there is new content, I have to click on EVERY BUTTON. In the past, Monte's weekly message summarized what was new and provided a link to it. I could surf the top level, see if there was anything new, and if not click out to the forums. Now, though, it's an effort - an admittedly small one, but good UI design removes barriers, it doesn't introduce them.If Monte's reading, please note I'm only hoping to access your articles more frequently. They're not even posted on ENWorld regularly, which leads me to believe I'm not the only one who finds it more difficult to tell when your site is updated. I like reading your work, and I'm sad that I can't do it easily.</blockquote>

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