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• HammerFan - Monday, July 5, 2004 - link

  It's going to take time for me to get used to the new site, but overall it seems o.k.

• Da3dalus - Monday, July 5, 2004 - link

  There are some good and some bad changes. Overall it's a step forward, but there are some things I'd prefer to see changed...
  
  The "Welcome, from Sweden it's..." is unnecessary, should be removed entirely. Doesn't need to be replaced by anything.
  
  On the right side, the latest news should be at the top. Blog, Anand's Picks etc should be below the news.
  
  Latest Articles seems like a more appropriate name than Latest Reviews since not everything there is actually a review ;)
  
  The Latest articles should be 5-6 items instead of two. And Top Insider Stories should be moved to the right so it is below the More Articles column.

• Mad Ad - Monday, July 5, 2004 - link

  awwwhhh :'( If its not broke.....
  
  Its my homepage your talking about here so excuse me if I sound emotional, its like losing an old friend.
  
  Its very confusing splitting 'Top Insider Stories' from 'Latest Reviews' since now ive got to remember to check both columns. Theres also no orderly list (with helpful pictures) so im going to be doubly afraid of missing reviews or articles now.
  
  The largest part of the page is given over to the 'Anandtech Product Coverage' now, whereas before it was the main review list taking pride of place. Its communicating that the latest reviews are less important.
  
  Surely theres an easier way to keep the original review list?
  
  

• Luke - Monday, July 5, 2004 - link

  There is a missing graphic right at the top right of the home page.
  Alt text is:
  "Welcome to AnandTech from, Australia"
  
  Other than that, the site is great.
  

• Fr0zeN2 - Monday, July 5, 2004 - link

  I'm also on broadband, but your site used to load slow for some reason. Only the top logo and bars loaded, then a few seconds, THEN the text article... don't know what you did to fix it but don't change it back.
  
  Oh yeah, and the Anand Blog right up at the top? Seems more like a forum thing to me... stick it way at the bottom or in the forum section and leave the top space for something important, like oh I dunno, the news?

• Blubberboy - Monday, July 5, 2004 - link

  Appreciate your comments on the page layout #36
  
  You da man!

• Dave Klebbe - Monday, July 5, 2004 - link

  where can I get a msi k8n neo2 motherboard?
  
  The msi web site says there is no such amimal!
  
  I'd like to build the high end system that is listed in the july article.
  
  Thanks for the help

• Guspaz - Monday, July 5, 2004 - link

  I must admit I prefer the old site. The new site is MUCH more confusing and complicated!
  
  However, I think the new site shows promise, it just needs improvements:
  
  1) Tone down the ads. There's 6 of the suckers visible on the front page, and they're way too tight together. There's a giant banner ad, and right underneath it is another banner ad, a little bit of content, then ANOTHER banner ad!
  
  2) Put more full-descriptions with pictures and less "More reviews"! Perhaps you could make it customizable; I would like at least 5 "Latest Reviews", and preferably closer to 10. Instead we get 2!
  
  3) I hate the "AnandTech Product Coverage" box. It's a massive block of text partially visible without even scrolling! It's ugly and makes the site look like a cheap advertisement-scam site. Hide it in a subsection, get it off the main page!
  
  4) A bit more news in the sidebar; how about 2 full days instead of one and a quarter?
  
  5) Been said before; logo should link to main, it's standard web practice.
  
  6) If Anand's blog is going to be published to the front page, the titles should be more descriptive; the general titles are fine when the content is right underneath them, but what does "This makes me sick" tell you about the content of the post? Or "I'm getting old"?
  
  7) The text at the top of the screen reads "Welcome, from Canada it's 9:07 PM EDT on July 5, 2004"... This is not grammatically correct. I'm no grammar whiz, but there should at least be a comma or period between "Canada" and "it's". Also, when I copy-paste the line, I get MORE text than I see, I get "Welcome, from Canada it's 9:07 PM EDT on July 5, 2004 Welcome to AnandTech from Quebec, Canada". Where does that second "Welcome to AnandTech from Quebec, Canada" come from? I can't see it in the browser, only when I copy paste. And if you know I'm in Quebec, why not show that instead of hiding it?
  
  
  That's it! I feel that if those suggestions were implemented, the new site would be as good as or better than the old one.

• dvinnen - Monday, July 5, 2004 - link

  I don't like it, but understand why you changed things. Maybe make a news page in the formatt of the old one? I hate the news archive.
  
  Now here's a big bug using Firebird .9. When you click on comments, and it opens up in a new window, it will open up and size the text width as if the window is full screen, and won't resize. Then shrink down to the pop up size, meaning you have to side scroll alot to read comments. In IE it works fine.
  
  I hope I said that clearly enough.

• Voldenuit - Monday, July 5, 2004 - link

  I'm afraid I have to join the ranks of the many who do not like the new site design.
  
  The old layout with its more copious article space made it easier to catch up on recent articles if you hadn't been coming for a while. Any bandwidth saved by the new site design is obviated if we have to load the page more often to see what we've missed. Also, having fewer articles on the front page makes it harder to tell when we've missed a new writeup - it'd be a shame to have a recent article fall into oblivio because no one knew it was there.
  
  Lastly, what's with all the flashing ads? I know the ad revenue is important in maintaining the site, but I seriously thoght I was going to suffer an epileptic attack when I loaded the site. Anandtech, being one of the largest and most influential tech sites, should have the clout to tell the advertisers to tone down their ads. In the meantime, I have been sufficiently annoyed by the ads to uninstall Flash.
  
  Cheers,
  V.