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MacRumors 2011 Redesign

I didn't realize so many Mac users ran their browsers at the full width of their monitors. Why on earth would you do that ever? :confused:

EDIT: Also, I should mention I love the new look—much more modern than the previous one which was showing its age. Will the forum's stylesheet get a similar update?
 
killmoms said:
I didn't realize so many Mac users ran their browsers at the full width of their monitors. Why on earth would you do that ever? :confused:
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I'm always wondering why most of the people that have a wide screen prefer the blank bars left and right on the page.
 
killmoms said:
I didn't realize so many Mac users ran their browsers at the full width of their monitors. Why on earth would you do that ever? :confused:
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I run multiple monitors, and so can easily devote the pixels to a full browser window. I just prefer it, and can't imagine why they'd re-design their site in 2011 to not take advantage of high resolution monitors. It looks ridiculous constrained with huge white space on each side - yes, even with 'fluid' turned on. (and in the long run, since fluid is not the default, most users will end up using the constrained view).

Sorry guys, don't like this update. The old style looked much more professional.
 
zhenya said:
I run multiple monitors, and so can easily devote the pixels to a full browser window. I just prefer it, and can't imagine why they'd re-design their site in 2011 to not take advantage of high resolution monitors. It looks ridiculous constrained with huge white space on each side - yes, even with 'fluid' turned on.
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But MOST websites these days are fixed width, because the human eye tracks lines of text much better when they're not super-long. Why not just size the browser appropriately and leave yourself easy access to your desktop, or keep some other things visible?

I dunno, it just never made sense to me to run a browser full-screen on widescreen monitors when the vast majority of websites don't scale to those widths (and even if they did, I wouldn't want them to, as they'd be hard to read).
 
killmoms said:
I didn't realize so many Mac users ran their browsers at the full width of their monitors. Why on earth would you do that ever? :confused:
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Yeah, because this 1280 screen is soooooooooo wide....

No seriously, fluid should be the default, not some obscure option we need to find a link to.

killmoms said:
But MOST websites these days are fixed width, because the human eye tracks lines of text much better when they're not super-long. Why not just size the browser appropriately and leave yourself easy access to your desktop, or keep some other things visible?

I dunno, it just never made sense to me to run a browser full-screen on widescreen monitors when the vast majority of websites don't scale to those widths (and even if they did, I wouldn't want them to, as they'd be hard to read).
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Again, 1280 isn't wide at all. Yet I still got blank bars on each side. On my 2048x1156 monitor, I don't use the full width for a browser window. Neither do I do it on my 1440 MBA (though I only have tin strips on each side on that one).

1280 is about the perfect width for a browser window.
 
Now half my page is wasted (blank space). Horrible. Sorry guys, I understand the need to tweak, clean up, etc. But functionally, this is worse.
 
Huge improvement.
And I'm also surprised so many people keep their browsers at 100%. These people must hate a majority of the internet.
 
KnightWRX said:
Yeah, because this 1280 screen is soooooooooo wide....

No seriously, fluid should be the default, not some obscure option we need to find a link to.
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Question for the fluiders...

Do you guys use the rest of the internet?
 
CLWelch said:
Question for the fluiders...

Do you guys use the rest of the internet?
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jmacleodpc19 said:
Huge improvement.
And I'm also surprised so many people keep their browsers at 100%. These people must hate a majority of the internet.
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Of all the sites I visit, most adapt to my 1280 window without a hitch.

It's not that I want to browse full screen, I just want to browse with a 1280 pixels wide window. Macrumors, without the fluid option, fails to properly dimension the content at that width.
 
Ugh, I dislike this new layout very much. It looks to comic book/cartoonish to me. Something like a teenager would put up.

Even though there is less on the screen (only 1 side column), it doesn't look as orderly or as clean. Less sharp. Almost as if the font was moved up a size and I'm looking at 'hi-vis' setting in Windows XP.

*shudder*
 
KnightWRX said:
Of all the sites I visit, most adapt to my 1280 window without a hitch.

It's not that I want to browse full screen, I just want to browse with a 1280 pixels wide window. Macrumors, without the fluid option, fails to properly dimension the content at that width.
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Unless you visit a small number of sites who all deviate from standard practices, that's just not true. Most sites are fixed at around 960px.

And are you really complaining about 130 pixels of white space on each side of the content? What should be placed in that space? Pictures of funny cats?
 
I certainly notice the speed increase. Feels a lot snappier :D Looks much cleaner and more professional too! Good job ;)

And I was wondering why the iPhone blog didn't cover all iDevices...
 
Just sent Arn this feedback, but thought some in the community might enjoy reading/commenting on as well.

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LOVE the redesign. Very clean, more user friendly.
I like how the main content column is now on the left since of the page while ads and other misc are a smaller column on the right. The previous version's content column flanked by ads and misc was annoyingly busy.
Anyway, good stuff all.

One potential consideration I stumbled across: on the Buyer's Guide page, it might be nice/more consistent UI to maintain the color coded corner snipes for each product. Much like the green "Just updated" top-right corner snipe, it would make sense to reinforce the color system. Thus, products that are mid-product cycle would have a yellow corner snipe with the words "mid-product cycle." Those end-of-cycles, a red snipe with "End-of-cycle."
And actually, the red, yellow, green is pretty stop light intuitive: the added white text might not even be necessary.

Also, as one who also accesses your site, daily, on an iPhone during my morning/evening commutes - are there any plans to tweak the mobile version of MR? Not that it needs much, but there could be some UI consistencies that would better align with the redesign. For instance, the tabs could be updated to reflect the same tabs on the redesign.

Again, nice work all!
 
Also, there is just far less info available at a glance on the homepage with this design. With the old design, I could scan 2-3 main headlines, a number of recent forum comments, and the Page 2 and Mac Bytes stories without scrolling at all. With the new design I see ONE main story, and a 'selection' of other stories on the right. That's it. This is a major step backwards. :mad:

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CLWelch said:
Unless you visit a small number of sites who all deviate from standard practices, that's just not true. Most sites are fixed at around 960px.
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I don't visit many sites no regularly (why would I ? I have about 3 news sources and a couple of fansub group sites to catch torrents) and no, not all sites fit my 1280 browser window properly. However, most do.

CLWelch said:
And are you really complaining about 130 pixels of white space on each side of the content? What should be placed in that space? Pictures of funny cats?
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Who's complaining, fluid fixed my issue. I just think it should be default, because then the site adapts to everyone's windows. The large full screeners, the mediums like me who like a wider 1280 window and the people who browse using tiny 480 pixel wide windows.
 
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