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MacRumors 2011 Redesign
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I'm actually liking the change. Additional of full-text in the RSS feed is very sueful. And although the fixed width is the default, I'm loving that (unlike with several other sites that've been redesigned in recent years) they have actually provided an option to make it fluid.
I can't understand the people that keep bashing this new design. It's great because of 2 things:
- It sticks to the original idea of MacRumors; a clean and easy to read website. What would you guys have wanted instead? Some flashy, eye-hurting website only distracting you from what's really important: the content!?
- It's fresh, it's new. At least for Mac Rumors it is. Their design was really out of date, and this brings it at least a few years back to now. It doesn't need to be any more future-proof than this, otherwise the old design would've already caused everybody to flee to other sites.
I've been in webdesign for years now, have been involved in designing and creating award-wining sites, and this site is an example of how a good news/rumors website should be designed.
Also for the "it's not wide enough" whiners; If you want to move your head from left to right continuously, go watch a tennis match. Or maybe learn how to use windows correctly instead of maximizing every one.
- It sticks to the original idea of MacRumors; a clean and easy to read website. What would you guys have wanted instead? Some flashy, eye-hurting website only distracting you from what's really important: the content!?
- It's fresh, it's new. At least for Mac Rumors it is. Their design was really out of date, and this brings it at least a few years back to now. It doesn't need to be any more future-proof than this, otherwise the old design would've already caused everybody to flee to other sites.
I've been in webdesign for years now, have been involved in designing and creating award-wining sites, and this site is an example of how a good news/rumors website should be designed.
Also for the "it's not wide enough" whiners; If you want to move your head from left to right continuously, go watch a tennis match. Or maybe learn how to use windows correctly instead of maximizing every one.
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Can't please anybody these days. There are more complaints about fluid and fixed width than you can shake a stick at. So I'm going to add one more.
Well, fixed-vs-fluid is a highly personal choice.
FInally, a site has offered the option of both. More need to do this. (I'm looking at you, BBC news...)
Still pretty exhausting if you'd have to do that all day. I can't really understand people that maximize browser windows on a 27" screen. But I guess it's preference. Just don't complain that not every site is optimized for such ridiculous sizes.
You average 4 posts per day on here.
Do those 4 extra clicks really matter?
Just a comparison with other forums, nothing more nothing less.
It's ok. Just about as any other website since about three years. It's ok. Nothing radical, nothing to relate to. It's functional.
What I don't like: Anything on the right third.
What I notice: vbulletin looks the same since like forever. But that's not macrumors' fault.
What I like: That there are no ads. But that's not macrumors' fault.
What I think is kind-a funny: It will look like a waste of space in fullscreen mode on Safari in Mac OS X Lion. But that's not macrumors' fault.
What I don't like: Anything on the right third.
What I notice: vbulletin looks the same since like forever. But that's not macrumors' fault.
What I like: That there are no ads. But that's not macrumors' fault.
What I think is kind-a funny: It will look like a waste of space in fullscreen mode on Safari in Mac OS X Lion. But that's not macrumors' fault.
This is pretty nice... the Fluid HD option is what I prefer, I'm surprised it wasn't added earlier. However... I have a question. What's up with the Mac Guides? They're still using the old design
Great job!
The only criticism I have is that the "More stories" section and the footer look a little bland. I think it's the blue colour scheme. They don't feel very MacRumors-esque.
The only criticism I have is that the "More stories" section and the footer look a little bland. I think it's the blue colour scheme. They don't feel very MacRumors-esque.
This should be the default for any site. Let the content scale to the browser window size.
fix the constant error shown in the attachment and make it larger. why is everything in the middle of the screen? why waste all that space?
Not a fan of the redesign Arn. It's just another example of useability being sarcificed for white space. It kinda seems with every recent redesign I've seen that there's been a regression in useabilty.
[conspiracy]Was the voting on stories removed in case of negative reaction to the redesign?[/conspiracy]
[conspiracy]Was the voting on stories removed in case of negative reaction to the redesign?
[/conspiracy]
Great, it does no longer look like the Classifieds section of a newspaper.
I like the fact that there's no more clutter, it's just going to take time to adjust to the new layout.
I'm also wondering if this is the first step towards developing a dedicated iOS App for MacRumors.com ???
I like the fact that there's no more clutter, it's just going to take time to adjust to the new layout.
I'm also wondering if this is the first step towards developing a dedicated iOS App for MacRumors.com ???
Ok...
for those who want a smaller view.
choose "Fluid". It goes down to 950 pixels wide now. Note that I knew we were going a little wide, but only 1% of our visitors use a 1024xYYY screen.
for those who want an ugly wide view.
choose "Fluid-HD" (not recommended
arn
Perfect. Thanks Arn. Much appreciated.