I’ve emerged from the bowels of the Inner Circle complex grateful to see the sun and take in fresh air for the first time in almost 8 weeks. We are very proud to announce our new Inner Circle website!
When we decided to continue with the Inner Circle and support 4th Edition under Wizards of the Coast’s Game System License (GSL), I had planned on making a few minor changes to the site to coincide with our announcement. Chris insisted that our old website was a horrible mess and was busy and poorly organized. I didn’t agree at the time, but decided to gut the whole site anyway.
My initial estimate was 2 weeks to coincide with the clearance sale on Denizens of Avadnu that we have in conjunction with Paizo Publishing. Here we are almost 8 weeks later with a whole slew of features we never intended on adding, but with a much better website and a very clear idea of what we plan on doing with our company this year.
Here are some of the major features of our new website:
A New Domain Name
Our website now resides at innercircle.us.com Anything that still links to the old icirclegames.com address still works, but that will eventually go away. Please update your bookmarks.
Redesigned Homepage
We now have a much cleaner and easier to navigate homepage. Our
top three updates are prominently displayed so you know at
a glance the latest news from the Inner Circle. We have
an area for polls where we can elicit feedback which
will help us improve our products and release what you want to
see.
We also have our blog, Arcane Sight, live streaming onto our homepage so you can see our latest posts without going somewhere else. This also makes it easier for us as we can update the blog without having to update the home page of the website.
Our Own Community Website
The Conclave is our new community message
board that you can visit to discuss previous and upcoming Inner
Circle products. A lot of people hate registering for forums,
so we have a common guest account that anyone can use.
To get our community started, we are also giving away free copies of The Broken Isles Player’s Guide to the first 100 people who register. Being a member of the Conclave also entitles you to monthly drawings where you can win cool Inner Circle prizes like signed prints and other Inner Circle goodness.
RSS Feeds
To give you that “Web 2.0” experience, we’ve added
an RSS feed for the main website so you can be updated with all
of the latest Inner Circle news through your favorite RSS Reader.
Our blog runs on Wordpress, so you can add that to your RSS reader
as well to get up to the minute information on the Inner Circle.
Online Shopping Made Easier
Our product information pages have been updated to be much easier to use and we are once again offering our entire catalog of products on our website. All of our payments are handled via PayPal through a secure server so you can rest assured that all transactions are conducted in the safest manner possible.
Frequent Updates
Our plans include website updates at least once per week with some cool new features like Live or Die where you can test your mettle against the Inner Circle on XBOX Live.
We have a lot planned and there is a lot more we have in the works. Drop us a line on our forums or email us and let us know what you think.
