Hey Gang!

We are pleased and very excited to announce that the new WorldWorksGames.com store has launched! (Refresh those browsers or you won’t see things the way they are intended to be seen...seriously, refresh more than once or things will look broken.)
. This restructure was a loooooooong time in the making and includes many requested changes/enhancements from the community. http://www.worldworksgames.com/store/

We would first like to take this opportunity to thank Neal Haggard (Morgenes), our resident webmaster, for helping us realize a new vision for the site. Without his sage knowledge of all things code, his devotion to getting things done and his unshakable patience with picky graphic designer types (Denny), we couldn’t have made it happen. THANK YOU NEAL!!!

We’ve made a number of key changes in the way the site is structured:

• Master Categories. The site now employs a master category system with deeper subcategory navigation. Each of our core genres (Fantasy, Modern, Sci-Fi, Horror, Game Aids, Kitbashes) spawns a unique homepage and a custom sidebar specific to that genre. You can break product listings down by very specific subcategories, making finding what you need MUCH easier.

• RSS feed and enhanced newsletter functions. Just below “What’s new at WWG” you’ll note these two extra functions along with a running archive of previous news articles.

• Enhanced Work-in-Progress meters (What’s Coming). We’ve done away with percentages but included an abstract cog which fills over time to completion. We’ve also created links to active topics on projects currently in production. Click the cog and keep up to date with your favorite project!

• Full search functionality! Store search now ties into product descriptions and restores a key feature we’ve been missing. Type “chair” or “column” or whatever little element you are interested in and all options will be available to you!

• Latest Kitbash. Just below our regular news is a spot specifically for the latest fan created kitbash release.

• Product reviews. Beyond the random review spot on the front page, we’ve reintroduced product reviews across the board. PLEASE help us out by adding reviews to products which currently have none.

• Enhanced product pages. Product pages have been reworked to offer a more streamlined shopping experience. Getting you to the info, freebies and eyecandy you need!

• Expanded Kitbash experience. We’ve reorganized the user created kitbash area to offer the best possible way of navigating our now gigantic collection of bashes. If you haven’t dipped your feet into kitbashes before, now’s the time!

• New “Beginners Guide”. We’ve remade the beginners guide with a tighter focus on the tools and techniques most used for the hobby.

• Enhanced FAQ. We’ve remade the FAQ area to offer a straightforward and user friendly experience. Digging for basic answers to common questions is extremely easy.

I’m probably forgetting a few things that we’ve changed and no doubt we’ll be tweaking little things as we move forward but it feels great to have this update complete. The end-game here is to make your WorldWorksGames experience a richer one and to allow us to launch new products and product types in a transparent way.

We hope you enjoy the changes (and please let us know if you find anything that we should fix!).

WWG Crew

WOW, just wow!

Thanks to all that have been working on this.

Great work. Not enough of a reboot to lose the WWG feel, but a refinement of all the good elements of the old look, but just so much slicker and more efficient. I'm impressed.

Nice new, larger emoticons, BTW.

Looks good. Can't wait until I have money and time again... hopefully those will coincide with Garden Of The Stone Speakers...

Thanks guys!

Related note; the "What's Coming" area of the forum has been updated with additional information and teasers: http://www.worldworksgames.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=61

Very, very nice! You guys did a good job on the overhaul.

-Mel

Wow.


Kudos to you guys, for an amazing job; the site looks great!

Keep up the great work.

Store looks absolutely terrific in IE7... not so good in Firefox 3.

More info if you please. And did you refresh, refresh, refresh?

I had a problem with it in Firefox 3, as well... until I cleared my cache. After that, everything looked hunky-dory.

I refreshed and I refreshed and THEN I cleared my cache... YAY! Beautiful layouts.

Dang Cache!

Good to hear

Congrats on getting this up Denny! Looking good.

The new layout is beautiful: good looking and easy to use.

The "What's coming" column is especially awesome, with the links, boards and previews just a clic away.

Love the new icons.

Great new look. I love the links to the forum topics.


The emoticon revamp is great too, much easier to determine the expressions on these.

Masterlinx is misspelled on the front page. Otherwise... AWESOME. I love the new look. More visual interest than the last version, without being too loud to read or comprehend.

Sacretis

Wonderful job on the update guys. I will try and post some reviews soon.

Looks good!

lol...yeah, "MaterlinX" just doesn't have the same ring as "MasterlinX"

Aaaargh! - The first link I tried doesn't support tabbed browsing.

Overall the site looks good, and I really like the new master categories. Will dig around the rest at some stage.

Unfortunately, as a regular user of tabs when browsing, it really grates when I encounter links that don't give me the option of opening them in a separate tab, and instead force me to link away from the page I'm on. Sure, some sites use features that do this so they look nicer - but it makes them lousy to navigate. (If you use tabs when browsing, you'll know what I mean. If you don't, you'll have no idea how much more convenient they are when you want to look at more than one page on a site.)

There's only a few links with this problem on the page (the main 'flash' promo, teh what's coming section and the user build spotlights).
- Any chance these can be changed to conventional links so they will support tabbed browsing?

I've fixed the work in progress images to be regular links. The flash intro controls the links, so there's not a lot I can do about that. The user build spotlight at the bottom just links to the photo gallery. I quickly tried changing it to be a flat image but had issues with spacing. I'll have to work on it again soon. Sorry

Shiny
Thanks Neal.
Talk about being responsive to feedback

That's the trouble with Flash based stuff - it looks pretty, but is crap to navigate.

Hmmm... looks good.

One minor suggestion for the storefront though - you may want to put the base sets above any addons that might be available.

The only examples of this that I notice for this are both in the Hellworks series - Shellendrak and Chathedrae Noctis. A minor quirk, but anything that makes it easier for folks to find what they need is good.

On the 'That Works' front, having items listed in multiple categories is a very nice touch - Cathedrae Noctis (and its addon pack) works very nicely for both fantasy and horror, ditto for Shellendrak in regards to horror and modern.

The Auld Grump