[Coda]

Oh, no, that's not really what happened. What actually happened was that the inventory system was being ridiculously, painfully slow -- some of our users couldn't even access the trade page because it would run out of memory. I was working on a replacement for the inventory/trade/avatar backend that would, in theory, delegate that work out to a separate backend that could keep track of stuff instead of leaning so hard on the database. But then as I was working on building that backend, it suddenly started being really slow just like the existing one. Since I had a very clear point of "this was working, and when I did this, it stopped working" I was able to figure out where it was doing way too much unnecessary work, and when I gave it a more efficient way of doing that task, everything suddenly cleared up, and all the code I'd put into the new backend was suddenly unnecessary.

As for the site layout... We've got some basic design ideas rattling around but we don't really have a web designer to flesh the idea out into a whole layout. I can take a Photoshop design and turn it into a website (and I'm darn good at it), but my own talent at actually coming up with visual designs isn't all that great.