New Look Site

by Kent Wilson on Nov 3, 2009 7:10 AM PST Comment 15 comments

I'm sure everyone's noticed the new format and appearance on M&G. The redecoration is part of a network wide effort to make the sites a little cleaner and loading a lot faster.

Anyways, feel free to share your impressions, either positive or negative.

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How do you like the new look?

Great - cleaner and easier to read.

7 votes

Not too bad - Could be better, but not terrible.

13 votes

Meh - I like some things, but don't like others.

11 votes

Not a fan - Site seems bland.

13 votes

Yuck - Switch back to the old look. Now.

3 votes

47 votes | Poll has closed

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It might be a bit buggy. The Z-tabbing function isn’t working. And the paragraph breaks aren’t showing up. See, I’m about to insert a paragraph break… right…

… now.

by R O on Nov 3, 2009 7:19 AM PST reply actions

I should say, “more than one paragraph break” doesn’t show up. I wanted there to be a double-space beteween “right…” and “…now” up there.

by R O on Nov 3, 2009 7:19 AM PST up reply actions

A positive though: it’s loading a lot faster on IE.

by R O on Nov 3, 2009 7:21 AM PST reply actions

Yeah, they’re working on the paragraph breaks as we speak.

A lot of people like the excess white space, but it makes the site look…unfinished to me quite frankly.

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by Kent Wilson on Nov 3, 2009 7:25 AM PST reply actions

Totally agree with you. The new format (like with the Flames) doesn’t have a strong and present Hierarchy of information. White space is always nice, and clean, but it puts more demands on the headings and fonts to direct your eye. This is not doing it very well, and now looks unfinished or disorganized. It appears to me to be very much the same, just without the coloured bounding boxes, no? Work that hierarchy SB Nation!

by LawrenceS on Nov 3, 2009 7:34 AM PST up reply actions

Whereas cramming everything together looks sloppy to me, heh. Can’t please everyone, eh? Overall, not bad. I have no idea why, but this entire site loads painfully slow on my work internet, but fine on my home. Ahh, well. I’m used to it.

Have to say overall, I liked the old look a little better, but that will simply be a case of getting used to the changes. Overall, they seem mostly cosmetic to me.

by Resolute on Nov 3, 2009 7:38 AM PST up reply actions

They are, so it’s probably going to be a matter of taste. For example, Titles and pics are now left justified which looks completely wrong to me, but they say it was done because it’s supposedly easier on the reader,

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by Kent Wilson on Nov 3, 2009 7:48 AM PST up reply actions

Also…they gotta do something about the tagline. It looks like part of the ad now.

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by Kent Wilson on Nov 3, 2009 10:12 AM PST reply actions

I didn’t even notice that until now. Dear god — maybe I’ll just sell off BoC’s tagline as additional advertising space.

http://www.battleofcali.com/

by Earl Sleek on Nov 3, 2009 1:21 PM PST up reply actions

I couldn’t vote in your poll because there was no option for “don’t really care one way or the other!”

Content has been great lately, that’s the most important thing…

by maimster on Nov 3, 2009 10:13 AM PST reply actions

Great content aside from the stupid polls you mean.

J/K. Thanks for the kudos.

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by Kent Wilson on Nov 3, 2009 10:15 AM PST up reply actions

Agreed. The content is what makes any site. The rest is just details.

by Resolute on Nov 3, 2009 10:47 AM PST up reply actions

This might be a case of missing familiarity, but “washed out” is the phrase that keeps coming to my mind, Kent.

BTW, the tagline might not look quite right, but the sentiment is in the right place.

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by Robert Cleave on Nov 3, 2009 11:33 AM PST reply actions

Here are my thoughts as a former designer:

1. The bar on the left side of the front page with lines and links to other blogs should remain constant throughout M&G

2. There needs to be a line break or something between the tagline and ad at the top, or something to tie it into the rest of the site- same font as “Matchsticks and Gasoline” in the square banner.

by ArikJames on Nov 3, 2009 11:46 AM PST reply actions

I honestly didn’t notice. So, I’m going to say that’s a positive, since i generally hate change of any kind. :)

I’ll echo the previous commenter in saying that the content has been fabulous lately, and that’s what really matters.

by Subversive on Nov 3, 2009 8:57 PM PST reply actions

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How do you like the new look?

Great - cleaner and easier to read.

Not too bad - Could be better, but not terrible.

Meh - I like some things, but don't like others.

Not a fan - Site seems bland.

Yuck - Switch back to the old look. Now.

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