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• MKruer - Monday, July 5, 2004 - link

  I like the layout of the old site better.

• Henry - Monday, July 5, 2004 - link

  To the editor:
  
  A comment and suggestion about your new digital camera site.
  
  I really like this new digital camera research section. It is very timely, because I am currently researching which digital camera would be best for me. I am looking for a wide angle digital camera to take pictures of the landscape, yet enable me to take good close ups as well, with high resolution. I don't know if this is possible without buying a digital SLR camera with an interchangeable lens.
  
  I currently have a 35 mm (film) Fujifilm, Panorama Zoom lens (38-120mm). So far, I have not found a digital camera that has enough resolution, nor the wide angle, and features and most importantly, a resonable price that would justify me not using the old 35 mm film camera anymore.
  
  Mr. editor, if you should come across a camera (perhaps in the near future when it comes out), please publish the data. I will be very interested. I trust Anandtech's research and find it very reliable and trustworthy. Past data have been corroborated independently by other sites as Extremetech. I also like your other research sections (CPU, Motherboards, etc.) Keep up the good work.
  
  Henry
  
  

• Matt - Monday, July 5, 2004 - link

  New site looks great, and Lonyo, just click the main Anandtech emblem in the upper left corner to get back to the homepage.

• EPAstor - Monday, July 5, 2004 - link

  Sorry, I much prefer the old site...
  
  If you want my opinion in detail, then I think the new site looks like a graphic designer was let loose on it, without any human-computer interface person to moderate it. Sure, it looks pretty and loads fast, but it also is more awkward to use. The news on the bottom of the front page actually was incredibly useful, and the new loss of space dedicated to recent articles really hurts the appeal of the site to me.
  
  Look, I really appreciate what you at Anandtech do for all of us. You offer excellent coverage of the entire field. There's one problem - a significant part of the appeal of your site was exactly how nice it was to use. You lost that this time around.
  
  I've been here, and I think I'll be here for a while... but it looks like it may not be as long as I'd like, if this is the design for the site going forward. I'm just uncomfortable with using it... the classic problem of the GUI designer.

• nourdmrolnmt1 - Monday, July 5, 2004 - link

  personally id flip the order of the right column. Sure reading about anands personal life is cool, but the news is most important, limit the news section to about 10 items, and have Anand's picks right after that still visible. w/ his blog below it.
  
  right now there is A LOT of white space at the bottom w/ the gigabyte advertisement, and Anand's blog has a few lines between it and Anand's picks
  
  The spirally thingy in the background of the logo looks like Sh!t, sorry but it is all pixelated and looks like a 6 year old did it, SOURCE is also moderately pixelated, if i were to change the logo, i would take the slogan, turn it blackish and put it below and start is about at the 'E' in Anandtech, it would make it flow better, however i see how something is needed between Anandtech and the right side of the page, maybe like get a closeup pic of a mobo, or the 'internal' of a CPU and make it bluish to sorta blend in.
  
  there is a lot of spave in the News section between Systemax Hurrican 6K post, and the BFG Tech post.
  
  in the forums is goes from the main site hearder to a light bluish tint, and then to grey, not sure what is going on there.
  
  just a few nitpicks.
  
  MIKE

• Micronaut - Monday, July 5, 2004 - link

  I really really prefer the old site.
  
  It's just junk on the front page now.
  
  I'm bummed. I've been coming here for years, and I may have to find a better site now :(

• CrystalBay - Monday, July 5, 2004 - link

  It's much cleaner

• jason clark - Monday, July 5, 2004 - link

  Actually, there are alot of readers on 56K modems, and slower broadband connections. Rendering speed is important, as is page size. The old site took at least 4-5 seconds to load for most people, if not much more on slower connections.
  
  Whether we like it or not CSS layout is the standard for web development.
  
  The top bar takes up no more space than before, infact it's shorter.
  
  We'll work on linking the logo, it's a background image which is why it is not linked.
  
  The tabs are organized to most popular sections, navigation always goes left to right.
  
  Resolution hasn't chagnes, only more articles is a smaller text, to fit it in.
  
  The div layout looks identical to IE in Mozilla, FireFox and netscape. Not sure what "Gecko" browser you are using?
  
  Change is good, but we are listening.

• Casper - Monday, July 5, 2004 - link

  I would have liked it better, had the "Latest Reviews" exchanged place with the "Latest news" (which as been pushed into the small right column).

• Bad Ass - Monday, July 5, 2004 - link

  Old site was much better. I've been an avid Anandtech reader for 4 years now and thought I had typed in the wrong URL!
  
  I go to the site for the quality articles and reviews that I love anandtech for, and I liked it when those were the most prominent elements on the home page.