[MUD-Dev] Addressing newbies

[stoddart at slip.net]

> From: "Johan J Ingles-le Nobel" <xvf61 at dial.pipex.com>
> I redesigned the wotmud.org/ website last October. Whilst it was "fair"
> beforehand, I put some serious effort into it this time, and they're both
> pretty and functional now. It gained the mud some serious publicity in
> circles that have never heard of muds in their life, and the sheer volume
> of use (90,000 page impressions last month) which continues to rise for
> the site means growth for the mud. It has. Other than a little fiddling
> with some skills here and there, the mud has not changed one iota between
> then and now, and our regular evening peak attendance has risen from 65
> to 110 in the period. Before anyone says "well it's a Wheel of
> Time-themed mud so it's easy", let me assure you that with dozens of
> muds on following the theme, it's not =).
> 
> Go have a look at the pages - there's a lot of work to do yet, but they
> work for us... They suck on Unix and Macs I'm told, but for the other 97%
> of WWW users who have 800x600 resolution they're quite nice...

It seemed to work alright on my Mac, apart from the left/right page arrow
things which scroll too far.

Out of curiosity, do you know how new players are discovering your web
pages?

Mike




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