It is that large banner and those moving images that irritates my eyes it is over the top advertising. Those people who love the work with Poser or DS will buy what they want to buy without having product adverts pushed in their face on every blooming corner.

I rather shop in stores that make me feel calm when I come in and where I can make my own choice of what I want to buy and not stopped in every aisle where people try to force products in to my shopping trolley.

Usually stores should change for the better, but with this kind of front-page is is big steps in the wrong direction.

3-DArena posted at 9:09AM Thu, 21 January 2016 - #4249890

LadyElf posted at 11:01AM Mon, 18 January 2016 - #4249074

Well when I land there, the top banner or whatever it is takes up more then 50% of my 32 inch screen. Yes there is ONE count them one image from a member the rest is advertisement, at the top..as is the other things on the right side. Sorry doesn't 'scream' community to me.

My point is, if the VOM deserves spots on the front page, so does the AOM and the AOY. They all deserve to be on the front page.

Renderosity did just fine without a store for years, not saying there shouldn't be a store, I love the store, and with some tweaks it might work. But without community, there is no store and no money for the vendors. It's not just one or the other they are all important...a symbiotic although sometimes stormy relationship.

When Rendo didn't have a store that was over 15 years ago, different owners and a different purpose. Without a store it would most likely not be here at all now. The large store ads were on the front page long before the last site re-design and there were more of them. It used to scroll a bunch of featured products - no gallery images, no featured gallery.

Then there was a box that had various news articles, occasionally a gallery feature and sales information as well as a side panel that showed featured and new products.
They basically went back to the old content, but with more gallery images & less featured products.

Sometimes I think that several members won't be happy unless all MP ads are gone and that's not realistic, at least the current incantation has a lot of stunning art work and articles linked in.

Although I do agree that Rendo has a definite problem with scaling and keeping everything balanced.