The Book of Ryan

Games Workshop took a site filled with flavor and interest and redesigned it with all the excitement of e-commerce. It also has to be the first site launched after 2003 that doesn’t have an RSS feed. Replace the logo and the site could be for any online store.

Also, the navigation is awful. Yes, they link to a bunch of topics, but each provides a drab gray-on-white list that gives you no idea what you’re getting until you blunder around and find the actual content. Nothing excites me more than to see the word “Warhammer” appear in all sub-navigation items.

I’ll stick to the UK site, which retains the flavor and immediacy a tabletop wargame should have. Someone find the Web firm that designed the new one and take away their license to code.