How do you like the new look?

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• Nyceis - Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - link

  Very nice change - no popping windows!

• imperator3733 - Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - link

  I like the idea of the redesign, but there are a few things that I do not like. First, the two banner ads at the top take up too much space. I'd move the 3 newest articles (maybe change it to 4 newest?) up to just below the tabs, then have a smaller banner ad, and then have a list of older articles in chronological order -- i.e. not divided into sections like it is currently. The main thing I don't like is the ad position -- they seem to be made too important. Also, when the window is maximized, which it never really is, if I'm scrolled all the way up, I can only see the top article in the other articles list.

• adiposity - Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - link

  Works fine for me in IE 7 and Firefox in regular mode. However, when I switch to wide mode, the css seems broken in Firefox. The buttons and backgrounds are missing.

• danielc56 - Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - link

  Hi Anand,
  
  I've been coming to this site for a looong time (still have a few bookmarks for your old articles, like Riva TNT review and K6 2/III upgrade guide!). So I've seen a lot of site changes over time.
  
  Overall the changes are fine. I remember there being a debate during the last revamp regarding 3 or 5 articles at top. I believe you said the top 3 articles get nearly all the hits, but decided to expand it to 5 anyway. It looks like things are back to 3, I presume for the same reason as before.
  
  The new layout reminds me a little of Ars Technica, with the big graphics followed by a list of older stories.
  
  One suggestion would be to bring all the tabs together. The upper subject tabs and the lower (review/blog/product) tabs are broken up by the ads and 'big 3' articles. It would be nice to have a single set of tabs to access, no matter how deep we go into the site. (An alternative - make the left sidebar a more prominent part of the site.)
  
  The other concern is the vertical arrangement of articles. Maybe you could layout the ads and "big 3" articles in a way that makes visible the lower part of the page. On my 1280x1024 screen I can only see the GeForce 8800M article. With a little layout tweaking to tabs/ads/empty spaces, we might be able to see 2-3 articles at the bottom of the screen.
  
  Keep up the good work. You've done a great service keeping us informed for close to a decade now (yikes)! Anandtech is a site I visit every day.
  
  danielc56
  
  P.S. - I just checked the links to the old Riva/K6 articles and they appear broken. They still show up on your search function, but appear to be broken links. :(

• aguilpa1 - Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - link

  Anand, sorry if this OT on your blog but I figured it might be quicker to reach you here. I don't know if you have been keeping track of the ongoing SAGA that us 680i SLI mobo users have found ourselves in after purchasing and trying to install the new QX6950 Yorkfields in our boards. They DON't work.?? Rumours abound that Intel intentionally changed the retail microcode at the last minute to make the chip incompatible with the 680i chipset because of Nvidias refusal to sell them their SLI technology. I don't know if this is true but either way the whole thing is a bunch of BULL. If you and your resources could check into this current dilemma I know all us 680i SLI users would appreciate it. Thanks Anand

• SilthDraeth - Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - link

  I was reading an article, and the only way to comment, was to reply to someone elses comment, then it brought up the comment window. At least that was only way I figured out how to post a new comment. Maybe I need to do something more.
  
  Huge gray bars on both sides, lots of wasted space. Using Firefox 2.0.0.3

• Nyceis - Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - link

  This is fixed now; link at the upper right corner of the comments area.

• dchaosdx - Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - link

  looks good to me. renders fine in firefox 2.0.0.9, very clean look, i like that the 3 latest articles are horizontally placed on the front page. no scrolling to see if there are new articles.

• Felix - Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - link

  I really think the old version of the beloved anandtech site was more informative, and there is too much space wasted in the new version.
  Unfortunately,
  the font for
  the main
  articles is
  unnecessarily
  large, that
  the headlines
  are very hard
  to read, since
  extremely few
  words fit into
  one line.
  Of course, one can argue that computer screens are getting bigger and that more big letters fit into one screen... but then I ask myself: why is about one third of my big monitor unused (left and right of anandtech homepage), and why are the news so small? And even with a relatively big 1600x1200 monitor I can fit only five headlines on the screen (Used to be much more).
  
  

• AmberClad - Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - link

  Like the clean, modern new look. Especially the fact that the most recent articles are all up top and given equal billing. I've noticed a few times in the past where a new article gets added, and then subsequently gets shuffled downward past some older, but more important articles.