RE: [OT] What makes a good miniatures web site

> It costs under $300 for a digital camera.  JPEGs
> can take under 1KByte each.

And hours, and hours, and hours of time, which costs money.

If you have a company with a several hundred thousand miniatures range,
how
long do you think it will take to get _all_ the pictures on the net?
Considering you also have to run the business, take orders, pack orders,
ship orders, cast new miniatures, pay the bills, eat, sleep, kiss the
missus, pat the kids and/or animals, and perhaps once in this lifetime
get
to have a life?

Add to this of course the voracious appetite on gamers on the net for
the
"new and latest" and thus, you have to get pictures of that too, and
that's
the highest priority because they want to see it now, now, now, now. In
fact
most of the time, it's yesterday.

Making a webstore that is as many things to as many people as possible -
works, looks good, userfriendly - takes time, more time, and even more
time - which of course equals money, more money, and even more money.
Even
if you're doing it on the cheap (which brings up all sorts of other
problems). Plus if you have a web person doing it for you, THEY have
other
things to do too (like real life, funny that).

So while I agree pretty much about the pictures thing, I realise also
that
it takes time to do all these things. And if the website is updated
regularly and not left in limbo, with news coming out at regular
intervals,
I take faith that they're working on it.