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I'm not super thrilled by the new CNET layout

by grimgraphix Jul 18, 2010 12:20AM PDT

Has anyone checked out the new CNET home page? It strikes me as too expansive. I am spending a lot of time scrolling down the page to see what all the articles are for that day. I specifically miss the small window preview box at the top of the screen. It used to have the feature where one hovered over a button to make the box stay on a featured story so you could quickly examine the tag line. Now, it seems to have lost some of that functionality. At first, the window just rolled through the list of pictures without any user control. This morning, the window has quit scrolling altogether, but you must manually click through the choices to see what is there. Could this be glitches the developers are sorting through?

Interestingly enough, it looks like several other sites I visit have all adopted the same format at the very same time. The BBC website being one of them. They have installed a rather large map of the world that you click on to go to a regions' news. I guess it is a nifty idea, but is it practical for scanning large amounts of information quickly?

All in all, these pages are just too expansive... too big, for my tastes. I like a collective list of current news showing on the top of a page when I go to it. I don't like a page that makes me scroll down 2 and 3 times to get a feel for what they are trying to tell me. I counted 7 complete screen lengths I had to scroll down (by tapping the space bar) to get from the top to the bottom of the CNET home page. I go to it 4 or 5 times a day, I don't think I'm likely to scan it every time I visit CNET's home page.

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It's a plot

by James Denison Jul 18, 2010 2:12AM PDT

To drive us all back to the newspapers.

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Haven't much noticed. I know...or have suspected...someone

by Steven Haninger Jul 18, 2010 7:41AM PDT

has been messing around with colors and hues for a while but, since I don't visit the cnet home page often, I didn't notice anything changed. Of course my wife can add something to the house or rearrange stuff and not notice for quite some time....unless it's something important like moving my coffee cup to another cupboard. Then, I panic.