You’ll notice that we’ve changed things up a little over here at CG central. The new design allows us to feature more posts during the day and ensure you don’t have to lose your place on the site. All of the extraneous scripts have been sloughed off like the skin of a snake and I think the new design makes things easier and funnerer to read. What do you guys think? Drop us a line in comments.
Special thanks to our crack web team Mark and Henry and the boys at MediaTemple for putting up with my bitching this morning.
How do you like the new site?
I actually like the design, it looks very clean and less crowded. One thing though, the search button for the top search box is misaligned by one pixel with the actual search box. (FF3, Ubuntu Linux).
Keep up the good work guys!!
This is happening on Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Safari as well.
Very nice. Very, very nice. It warms my obsessive compulsive minimalist heart.
Golf clap…
I liked the old design too, and the new one is quite nice too.
However, I come here for the content… which is top-noch!
To be honest, I liked the old design way better than this one. Oh well though, I’ll deal. I still love the site in general.
I love it. Crunchgear was long overdue for an overhaul.
This looks really nice.
I like it, but everything looks a bit too white, so it’s hard to tell where a post ends and begins. Perhaps the site could use a touch more silver just to help the eye stay focused.
I agree with this, actually. It’s like a polar bear in a snowstorm. I can’t tell when stuff begins and other stuff ends.
Its all really really white and is kind of hard to stare at and read.
I really don’t care much for it. It just kind of looks like a big white mess with no clear distinctions where anything begins or ends. As long as the good old CG content is still here, though, I won’t really complain.
I agree with Anthony. It’s too white. It definitely feels less cluttered, which is awesome, but maybe that soft gray background from before should make an appearance. (or any color for that matter, just to allow the eye to focus on the post) It kind of feels “barren” rather than “minimalist”.
Also, this may be just a personal thing, but I really liked being able to navigate to a specific page of posts, rather than having to keep clicking through a bunch of pages.
Overall, I’m a big fan of changing up the scenery every once in awhile; and you definitely kept an organized layout. My eye just doesn’t want to go to the posts naturally with everything so white.
I like the old design. When i saw this one it was like my girlfriend had cheated on me, it will never be the same.
:-(
So your life changed twice today.
mr. biggs,
Even though i do not approve of your new design, I am still faithful to crunchgear.
also, thanks for the moleskine.
Russell
The new site is too white and too busy. There is not enough space/delineation between articles, so they seem to run together. I appreciate the effort you are putting into this, but I feel that there is still more work to be done to make this as easy to view and read as the old site.
The bee’s knees, guys. The bee’s knees.
Very cool….much better design.
Honestly, I’m not a big fan of the design change. I don’t know what it’s going to look like when I get onto a decent computer with Firefox at home, but at work I’m stuck in IE6… and in that it looks awful.
I assume it will render close to what Techcrunch’s layout is suppsed to look like though, and honestly… while I understand the idea of consistant brand identity, I also stopped reading TechCrunch when it started to bother my eyes.
I’m not leaving CrunchGear’s readership, but I probably won’t keep checking it at work… and that’s most of the time I read this site.
Trae, send us a screenshot
I’m sure it’ll grow on me but I’m not digging the smaller font. My eyes get so tired reading gadget blogs that I always felt looking at CG with its 14pt. font to be a relief. I know, I know, I can change it in my browser but I’m lazy. (Also, the design reminds me a little of Gizmodo…a little.)
Yeah, I liked the old better version too. This is like Mobilecrunch’s format (yes, I know it’s not a coincidence). I agree that it’s a bit harder on the eyes with all the white and it looks more like a blogspot page now than a tech site.
Cheddar makes everything better…
I LOVE the new layout.
Pros:
–much faster on my hacked iphone, and easier to follow and load.
–Nice top menu, I am more likely to visit other sites
Cons:
–Too much white. Way too much…
–The “old posts” and “new posts” buttons seem backwards to me
Loathe:
–Cannot jump to a certain page? Did I miss that? Why is that gone?
Just wanted to echo the comment about the “older” and “newer” buttons being out of place. More specifically, they aren’t consistent with those on techcrunch.com. In fact they haven’t been for quite some time, but I figured this was as good an opportunity as ever to mention it.
please put page numbers back on the bottom, and i miss the big pictures… still it is crunchgear and i love you..
Got to agree with most of the people here, its too white.
And I miss the big picture and the ability to read the full article without clicking the article title or “read more” link, now I need to spend more time clicking rather than scrolling.
Hard to read…white space galore and please bring back the page numbers. I though I’d mistakenly gone to Techcrunch. It’s like you joined forces…are you combining the two sites or something? I guess I’m too old fashioned but this gotta be kewl attitude is getting too much and too boring. Be yourself not Techcrunch junior.
Now that you’ve got the post delineations, I’m a huge! fan of the new layout. Awesome.
But I still feel like I’m staring at a light bulb with the bright white everywhere.
Love the changes you made since last night. Overall a great upgrade, whoever designed this has earned an attaboy.
I think the site looks terrible on a 22″ widescreen.
Too much white and eggshell. Ow! My retinas!
you need a 3rd answer – What new site? It still looks like Google Reader to me!
:)
I’m liking the new layout.
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