Yeah, I'm not liking the "skinny" look either. On a larger monitor (24" here), there's almost as much white space to the sides as there is content in the center. It'd look better either expanded, or fill the useless space with something.
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MacRumors 2011 Redesign
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Yeah, I'm not liking the "skinny" look either. On a larger monitor (24" here), there's almost as much white space to the sides as there is content in the center. It'd look better either expanded, or fill the useless space with something.
I Hate it!
&
What's with the
WHITE BORDERS MAN!
THATS IS UNACCEPTABLE!
It looks like we have little input on how things will look around here going forward,
and we support the site by coming here,
people always have to tinker around with established design
and usually not for the better
but for the worse.
This is a good example of the worst!
&
What's with the
WHITE BORDERS MAN!
THATS IS UNACCEPTABLE!
It looks like we have little input on how things will look around here going forward,
and we support the site by coming here,
people always have to tinker around with established design
and usually not for the better
but for the worse.
This is a good example of the worst!
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Looks great! A nice transition.
I'd prefer if the "front page stories" column was removed and the special sections (the two blogs and the guide) made 3 columns instead. Front page stories are just one click away anyway. Only the forums use the whole width.
The thick header also takes up lots of valuable real estate.
I'd prefer if the "front page stories" column was removed and the special sections (the two blogs and the guide) made 3 columns instead. Front page stories are just one click away anyway. Only the forums use the whole width.
The thick header also takes up lots of valuable real estate.
I like it overall... with two caveats.
I would like a three column design better, with recent news stories on the left and forums on the right.
Will we ever get thread previews when we hover over the thread title? This should have been added a long time ago.
I would like a three column design better, with recent news stories on the left and forums on the right.
Will we ever get thread previews when we hover over the thread title? This should have been added a long time ago.
Looks nice!
I've been using the MacRumors Minimal Safari Extension for sometime on my MBP to reduce some of the cluttler, but this layout will make me disable it.
Thanks for all the hard work!
I've been using the MacRumors Minimal Safari Extension for sometime on my MBP to reduce some of the cluttler, but this layout will make me disable it.
Thanks for all the hard work!
Folks, as we noted in the article you presumably read before posting in this thread, you can toggle between fixed and fluid page widths at the bottom of the front page.
Ah...missed that part. Much better now with the "fluid" option enabled.
In an era where most redesigns are awful (CNN and Gizmodo/Deadspin/etc), you guys did a great job. Very nice work.
The new buyer's guide is awesome. (Althought I don't think 'newest-to-oldest' is a good idea. It really should just be listed alphabetically. Having the list change order over time seems like it would be annoying.)
Making the iPhone section into an iOS section makes sense.
I don't care about the blue-tab's look one way or the other. (They seem bigger than the old tabs...are they? Not a big deal, that's just my only thought.)
I do NOT like the fact that the new iOS blog doesn't show current forum topics down the right side. I spent 95% of my time looking at topics right there and only 5% of the time going directly to the forum. I think this is a really good way to get casual story-readers to stop commenting on the forum. Is that the goal? Seems like the opposite of what you'd want.
Making the iPhone section into an iOS section makes sense.
I don't care about the blue-tab's look one way or the other. (They seem bigger than the old tabs...are they? Not a big deal, that's just my only thought.)
I do NOT like the fact that the new iOS blog doesn't show current forum topics down the right side. I spent 95% of my time looking at topics right there and only 5% of the time going directly to the forum. I think this is a really good way to get casual story-readers to stop commenting on the forum. Is that the goal? Seems like the opposite of what you'd want.
Well not really. If only the re-designed UI would flow to the rest of the page rather than the top-bar.
Count me in the minority as well -- NOT a fan!! In addition to the white space on the sides, there seems to be a lot of space around all the individual elements as well (and is it just me, or has the text gotten bigger, too, not for the stories but for everything else?), which just means more scrolling and less efficient reading.
I agree that I'm sure it took a lot of work, and I'm sorry to rain on that, but it looks cheesy and dated to my eye. I think the other changes are good (feeds, etc), but I, for one, will miss the old layout a great deal.
In addition to the white space on the sides, there seems to be a lot of space around all the individual elements as well (and is it just me, or has the text gotten bigger, too, not for the stories but for everything else?), which just means more scrolling and less efficient reading.I agree that I'm sure it took a lot of work, and I'm sorry to rain on that, but it looks cheesy and dated to my eye. I think the other changes are good (feeds, etc), but I, for one, will miss the old layout a great deal.
Too much padding on the left side (at least in Firefox 3.6.x) causes needless left-to-right scrolling for 1024x768. Other than that, quite nice!
EDIT: Ha! I noticed that I didn't have an ABP exception for macrumors.com on my work machine. I can assure you I have since added that exception, and that it wasn't causing the problem!
EDIT: Ha! I noticed that I didn't have an ABP exception for macrumors.com on my work machine. I can assure you I have since added that exception, and that it wasn't causing the problem!
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Maybe you hadn't realized - you can have more than 1 MR site (or any other site) on your widescreen monitor like I do.
Kudos to Arn and the rest of MR team for this site. Much better than before.
Few suggestions if you don't mind for fun:
Overriding The Default Text Selection Color With CSS3
Disable textarea resize: textarea {resize: none;}
Change Focus highlight: input:focus, textarea:focus { //whatever color and border to make it appealing rather than bland }