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• Boz - Monday, July 5, 2004 - link

  Yeah, not liking the new look too much either. Getting the page size down was kind of splitting hairs if you ask me. Most of your readers (if not most of the average internet users) are on broadband now and 300Kb is a slight hit to take to get the easy to read news prompts like you had before.
  
  Also, seems like much of the div layout is not correct in Gecko browsers. In Firefox the tabs are separated, they don't overlay the bottom of the banner correctly anymore, and the banner is 1 or 2 pixels offset from the main content.
  
  Never understood why the webmasters got all geeky about div layouts.. they never come out right, at least not between different browser engines.. and they are slower to load. You can actually SEE the different stages of the page loading now.
  
  And who :giveaf: about the speed of the homepage loading now if it's not as intuitive and informative? Great so now I can get to it quicker except, it doesn't have what I want to see.
  
  Overall, upset about the change.

• Anonymous - Monday, July 5, 2004 - link

  I would like to be able to click on the AnandTech logo to return to the main page. Also, I think the layout could be simpler/better/easier on the eyes. Tech people shouldn't do interface design ;-) Ask some of the new Mac people (where's the content here?) for help ;-)

• Chris - Monday, July 5, 2004 - link

  Just a little constructive criticism. Please don't take it the wrong way.
  
  The tabs take up too much real estate. You have to scroll over to see them @ 800x600. It looks like you targeted 1024x768 browser size, but most people keep their browser at below 700px width even if their desktop has an insane resolution.
  
  The top logo is a little amateurish. The font is using too much anti-aliasing and makes it look a little blurry. That combined with the (intentional?) mosaic in the background just does not sit right.
  
  You could probably make the logo a little smaller in height then shrink the tabs in width and height. Then butt the tabs against the left. The smaller heights will let you drop the nav-bar down so you can also butt the banner ad against the left as well. If you shrink the right column (news) about a third, combined with everything else, you can probably shave 200px off the width of the page and still keep the ads visible.
  
  Just my 2-cents. Sorry to nitpick.

• Anonymous - Monday, July 5, 2004 - link

  Yeah, you guys are following TomsHardware type front page with tons and tons of front page links. I will get used to it after a while so no worries.
  
  As long you keep the quality of reviews up, I don't really mind.

• lobadobadingdong - Monday, July 5, 2004 - link

  http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=...
  
  ^ ^ ^ Poll I started in the forums to make sure it wasn't just me.^ ^ ^
  
  In the forums there are now no links to the home page.
  
  The smaller reviews is too small and should probable go back to the top down linear setup as before. I used the small pictures to know which reviews I have already read, now I have to keep up with the titles instead (I can probable get used to the cluttered feel after a while)
  
  It looks horrible on 800x600 desktops as you now have to scroll left and right to see the news and older reviews.

• Jason Clark - Monday, July 5, 2004 - link

  The loading of white issue is browser side, we're all css layout now. When the divs load, depends on what content is in them and the way the browser parses the html.
  
  L8r

• sdfg - Monday, July 5, 2004 - link

  It looks nicer overall without changing too much. I think it could be improved if a few more reviews on the front page were shown with the picture and article excerpt - it'd give some room to focus on something other than a barrage of links. Also, the white background for the articles loads after the green background for the page, which is kind of odd, but not particularly trifling.

• Jason Clark - Monday, July 5, 2004 - link

  Hey guys, good feedback. We took news off the front page as it caused the front page to total 300KB, unacceptable size. We're down to 34k, 5-8k compressed html now. Home links to home, but we hear you about linking the logo.

• Falco-r - Monday, July 5, 2004 - link

  i kinda like the old layout better..
  
  all the news right on the front page, didn't have to go to a different page just to read it ..
  
  at the very least.. a link to a " news page " would also suffice .. :-)

• Fr0zeN2 - Monday, July 5, 2004 - link

  everything loads much faster, and news layout is accessible while reading individual articles. this new layout rocks