How do you like the new look?

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• praeses - Wednesday, November 21, 2007 - link

  Overall some of the changes I like, but two things that really do annoy me are the differences in font faces, and the two banner ads neighbouring eachother on the main page.
  
  I would prefer the smaller banner to be just above the "More Reviews"/"Blogs"/"Product Coverage" within the same greyish background that the three items above that are in.
  
  For the fonts, ideally all the same face, including those within the top "tabs". If they are supposed to be be, it doesn't appear like its rendering correctly. Also, many pages seem to exhibit a thinner left border around the content such as this "Post a comment" box I'm writing into now while the rest has thicker borders just below it. The thinner borders I believe are correct and look much sharper. Something is glitching out in IE6.

• praeses - Wednesday, November 21, 2007 - link

  Overall some of the changes I like, but two things that really do annoy me are the differences in font faces, and the two banner ads neighbouring eachother on the main page.
  
  I would prefer the smaller banner to be just above the "More Reviews"/"Blogs"/"Product Coverage" within the same greyish background that the three items above that are in.
  
  For the fonts, ideally all the same face, including those within the top "tabs". If they are supposed to be be, it doesn't appear like its rendering correctly. Also, many pages seem to exhibit a thinner left border around the content such as this "Post a comment" box I'm writing into now while the rest has thicker borders just below it. The thinner borders I believe are correct and look much sharper. Something is glitching out in IE6.

• MrSpadge - Wednesday, November 21, 2007 - link

  For me it looks like this:
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  SeaMonkey 1.1.1 with AdBlock on my laptop at 1024x768. With the old layout I was able to see the last 5 articles at a glance, even on such a small screen.
  Now it is harder to read even just the first 3 headlines, because they are cluttered over several lines and the eye is distracted by the large images (which don't add real value). The first few sentences from the article are of no value for me, because I generally only need the headline to know if I'm interested in reading an article (yes, you guys make good headlines).
  I like the look of the new layout, but in its current form it makes accessing information considerably harder. I like the tabs for blogs and product coverage though.
  
  Regards, Stephan

• AnnonymousCoward - Wednesday, November 21, 2007 - link

  It looks great, but it's annoying to have comments spanned across multiple pages. I often want to see if someone commented on a particular key word, but now I have to do ctrl-f 4 times on 4 pages.

• kaddar - Wednesday, November 21, 2007 - link

  I don't like it as much, and I really liked hardocp and arstechnica's redesigns. I think there's something weird about the center, maybe it's the gradient, I don't know.
  
  Also, I like block-highlight-background change links.

• Lord 666 - Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - link

  On the way too and from work , I keep up on both AT and DT. But now since the change, it now chokes up the built-in browser and prevents access to the site. I cleared the cache and it partially loads.
  
  Please go back to the old site so I can keep my sanity while using mass transit.

• sparkuss - Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - link

  And also can we please have the goto page links [1] [2] next at both the top and bottom of pages.
  
  This very comment page is 10 physical pages long and you have to scroll all the way to the bottom to go to the newest (last page) of comments.
  
  

• cosmotic - Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - link

  I think you should get rid of the dates and number of comments for all front page items. Its extra information that I never care about.

• sparkuss - Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - link

  Has a nice tone to it all and easy on the eyes, but all of the center frames are just too large for me. Even at 1680x1050 with a 20" LCD I can only see the 3 highlighted articles and one more below.
  
  I may not always read every new article the same day it posts but when I come back each day I'd really prefer to see less intro info and more titles. Less is more for me, and the first paragraph of the article isn't going to make me choose to read it or not. As it is now, the lead lines are just forcing the frames bigger and not adding any value for me. If anything else it also seems the spacing on the top of each frame above the first text is excessive also, again making them too large.
  
  Lastly, I could do without the comment link on every frame if the date could be added somewhere else to reduce a line (space again) needed. I'm never going to read the comments w/o reading the article first and it was always there waiting at the end of the article. Just another item that keeps the frames larger.
  
  Overall, to me, the last three articles just don't deserve the treatment they get and it just looks out of perspective. If that area was reserved for some form of "must-read" or "hottest issue/article" then it would deserve that much space. But as it is, they are simply there by luck of posting.
  
  My two cents
  
  

• mgerard - Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - link

  1. The grey bar behind the top banner is overly big, are adds ever going to take up that much space? Wasted to me.
  2. Right under it, another advertisement banner. Feeling Bombarded.
  3. The three top reviews. Picture could be shrunk to add text to right of it. Shrink the text a ton, especially the title. I can read it in the other room atm.
  4. I'd like to see #3 done so that "More Reviews" is higher on the page. Right now, on 17" I only see the first review, and have to scroll for anything else.
  5. Something seems funky about the subject font under the more reviews, just doesn't sit right in my brain.
  6. I like that product coverage was put on a different tab.
  7. I like that blogs were put on a different tab.
  8. Too many reviews on first page, I liked it better when there were only 4-5.
  9. Bring back the old Anandtech, this one needs to much tweaking to be live.