As to the tagline, I’m torn about it. I like it, but it is very specialized. There are a lot of D&D players who won’t get the planar references (although the tide may be turning in that regard. Rumor has it Sigil is in the new DMG. Long Live Planescape!). The tagline on my D&D site is more understandable (The D20 stops here) to the average D&D player, if a bit boring. I’m not sure which is best, honestly.

I suppose if you’re getting a lot of non-D&Ders, the less obscure the better. I’d hate to see it go, though. Maybe move that tagline to your about page.

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@James: Sorry about the busted comments… it’s fixed now. I got what angle you were taking… I had to let my bruised ego vent a bit and I chose the ‘You’ angle. All is fine, I really appreciate what you did! Ego has regenerated to it’s original self

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What I did want to remind your readers (protective little buggers, eh?) that we don’t run around arbitrarily picking blogs to shoot up. Drive-bys are by request only.

To yourself: You mentioned disappointment that we didn’t take YOU into consideration when giving our views – but any stranger that comes to your site doesn’t know you and will have the same objective, impersonal views as we do (or similar). If you want more YOU to show through, you need to add more personality to your design elements.

You have great content, but make no mistake – you have less than seconds to grab someone’s interest. Only THEN will they read your site. Miss that split-second impression, and they’ll click away. I know your readers mean well, but keep the thought that “design does matter” in mind.

Plus, we never said it was ugly

I had lots of other great comments to add, but after typing for a half hour and losing it all… ugh.

With all the great imagery involved in gaming books, you could easily make the banner neutral. I’d have used a dragon or some other cool monster, or something that related to the genre of the game involved. You also have the elements of the game to choose from, like dice, that come in some pretty cool colors. There’s a lot that could be done with a banner like this and these are the types of banners I live for. It’s perfectly acceptable to step out on the edge and do something way cool and exciting. Take advantage of that.

@Brett: The hand cannon was my idea. Pete and I were having a discussion the other day about handguns and I decided if I ever got one, it would be a classic .45 revolver. When he mentioned that the revolver would be more accurate than an automatic (no jumping around on each shot), but it would have only six shots, I came back with “Well, technically you only need one bullet to get the job done.” And since he knows what a marksman I am, he had to agree.

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I installed the Recent Post and sociables plugins this morning. I’ll add the ‘notify ‘ one too.. great idea.

I also have comment edit in there, which I know readers love.

I’ll have a look at the color scheme. A sharper contrast between the background and the main text could work. Although I had originally planned to blend in a watermarked image in the background… I’ll see how I go at it.

Thanks for the forum idea. I will definitively look into it.

Thanks again.

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