Whoa... New Tripped Out WoTC Home Page...

[Festivus]

Pretty sure this is just for red box... probably will go all freaky again with Gamma World art or somesuch in October too I bet.

 

[Scribble]

Pretty sure this is just for red box... probably will go all freaky again with Gamma World art or somesuch in October too I bet.

Oh I'm sure the background art won't stay that way forever, but I think the changes to the page itself will stay.

 

[ak1287]

Looks good to me (Google Chrome, Mac OS).

Also, the Dragon articles are easy to find. So.... Myah.

 

[The Human Target]

Like that they went with something dynamic and flashy.

Annoyed that Dragon and Dungeon are not more central.

Also sad that I can't download the Red Box characters.

 

[Reaper Steve]

Also sad that I can't download the Red Box characters.

Agreed. I hope they fix that first thing in the AM, as it will significantly cut down my prep from running the Red Box adventure that evening.

(I told the gang that I would de-level the Game Day 2nd level characters to 1st level since we won't have time for 6 people to do the solo book. But, I spent my evening in the ER with my 5 yr old and her fractured humerus, so I lost the time set aside to do that. Imagine my delight when I saw the Red Box Character Files a few moments ago... and imagine my frustration when the links didn't work.)

Oh well, if the visit to the orthopod runs long tomorrow, we'll just play Castle Ravenloft instead! Which rocks, BTW!

 

[Kzach]

This is what it looks like in Safari 5.01:

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj51/karlzachery/wotcfail.jpg

If you think that looks 'ok', then you have no idea what ok looks like.

EDIT: I just had a look at the site in Chrome on Windows 7 and suddenly realised why it looks the way it does in Safari on OS X. I have Click2Flash installed on Safari to block Flash. This means the web site designers have used Flash as a layout tool. That is so far beyond fail that it's even worse than just purely bad coding and design, it's INTENTIONALLY bad coding and design.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

It's a little bit more concise in design, but not radically different.

I only question putting the "Current & Upcoming Releases" in the primary spot, front and center/left. I seriously doubt that the majority of visitors to wizards.com/dnd are there to look over the catalog.

In fact, I can just envision a Suit from Hasbro saying "This redesign looks great. It's perfect. Don't change a thing... except put the catalog stuff right here--and make it bigger than everything else."

Yeah, sounds like something that would happen at my company. Happens atmy company. THe most important feature of our software seems to be the start screen where we advertise our products. Not the actual part where you design those products...

 

[Baumi]

I like the new look and the site is much faster on my Android-Phone now, but what I don't understand is why the most important part (The News and Articles) is so neglected.

 

[Danzauker]

What I don't really like is the automatic toggle feature of the right side menus.

When I'm on Content Calendar page, for example, only one of Calendar Links / Quick Links / Tool Box can be open at a time.

I'd like to be able to choose which and how many menus to keep open. I hate to search in all sweep menus where is the link I need.

 

[Bagpuss]

If by "Tripped out" you mean is formatted all over the place then yes, I can agree. It seems to be full of errors for me and isn't displaying properly (I use the latest version of Firefox).

Same issues in Chrome at the moment it's complete mess.

EDIT: And now it's okay....

seems a bit temperamental