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| Time: 10:42 EST/15:42 GMT | News Source: ActiveWin.com | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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Please take a look at the screenshots of the new ActiveWin.com design. These are still in the early stages, but you can get a sense of our general direction. We look forward to your comments! | ||
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| #1 By 116 (66.193.251.146) at 6/26/2008 11:41:11 AM |
| I think its high time Activewin gets an overhaul! I am not too impressed with the logo or the design. It just doesn't reach out and grab me as the best Windows news site on the net (which this site is by far). No offense to anyone, I guess just not my cup of tea. I am sure you guys will get it rocking. |
| #2 By 2 (136.142.154.157) at 6/26/2008 12:08:08 PM |
| What don't you like about it? (constructive comments are best). We are going to post some newer screenshots shortly. |
| #3 By 28692 (216.185.210.251) at 6/26/2008 12:29:25 PM |
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The use of color is interesting and the site looks much cleaner overall (looks a bit like RSS reader). Perhaps it's just the sample articles used, but it could use some graphics to spice things up.
P.S. I too think the logo is a bit off. I get the A and the W parts but it reminds me of Nazi Swastika for some reason. |
| #4 By 23275 (68.186.182.236) at 6/26/2008 12:33:51 PM |
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#1, we went around that one a great deal and actually have two more we came up with later.
Bob himself didn't like it much, but again, the idea was to rough out a direction. We wanted something clean, but bold and strong. So it's by no means final and any ideas or designs are welcome. The layouts are actually de-tuned and only present design concepts we knew were going to be imperatives - for example, how best to integrate ads in effective, but not dominate ways and how to use color to group areas of interest - these tiles may be selected from a collection and sized and positioned to suit each person's individual tastes and depending upon platform/desired experience, executed without a post-back. The final designs are even more compelling, but we are very reluctant to tip our hand(s) - design and our coding wise. A big part of our work has been to set the standard for all web applications (I know, not possible) - but we set the bar so high for ourselves that we knew it would be a very big challenge and that in many cases, the technologies used had not been invented, or developed yet. (If you saw the requirements list, you'd understand that we intentionally asked for even the most wild of features and ideas). So you take guys with 30 and 40 years in this business and turn them loose on the impossible, or seemingly impossible... which candidly, we said several times a week... then someone would come up with an idea and we'd try it and it would work... and onto the next mission impossible. The entire idea was to make it so hard that it would be harder than anything we had ever done - knowing that even if we failed in some ways, we'd still have set something of a standard. We'd then expose that to the hard cold review of younger guys and they'd shred it in the context of what younger people would want. Things like pinning, where young non-enterprise oriented people who use BB's over iPhone, or SMS, PIN each other - the new age of non-geek, geeks that simply use technologies. Some things so out there and revolutionary, that they will render many sites simply irrelevant. Finally, there will be a code-plex and tools for all - showing how we did it and offering people the use of the same stuff. Similarly, we're opening our battle books and sharing with people how we do things and how to leverage the "what's ours is yours" distributed data and calculations centers Microsoft is building. (call that a partner's survival guide in the SaaS (services and software) era where MS eats its young), http://blogs.msdn.com/jvast/archive/2007/07/11/hey-hey-get-off-of-my-cloud.aspx |
| #5 By 23275 (68.186.182.236) at 6/26/2008 12:35:31 PM |
| #3, Yikes... hadn't thought of that, but you're right. |
| #6 By 8556 (12.210.39.82) at 6/26/2008 1:34:59 PM |
| I like it a lot. I didn't see a swastika in it and won't try to as I'd probably always see it after that. |
| #7 By 432 (209.167.107.58) at 6/26/2008 3:17:46 PM |
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Well..I guess I am on the side of "not loving it". It looks like one of those sites that are slapped together to try and sell that latest "whiz-bang" web 2.0 services or products.
I totally get the challenges you guys are facing though...keeping it clean and standard and usuable on all devices and browsers....however....in this case.....i just see cheap....and "skittles....taste the rainbow" just my 2 cents... |
| #8 By 143 (65.221.158.226) at 6/26/2008 3:51:51 PM |
| I like the new logo it has a autobot feel. |
| #9 By 29664 (38.116.145.116) at 6/26/2008 5:01:46 PM |
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I'm less concerned with looks and more interested to know if your new site will keep an archive of older stories. I frequently see better material links here than anywhere else but, I don't have to time to get to them all. Sometimes weeks later I think to go back and *poof* the article link is gone.
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| #10 By 29664 (38.116.145.116) at 6/26/2008 5:04:19 PM |
| BTW I do like the new look. Certainly more up to date. |
| #11 By 89137 (65.255.137.29) at 6/26/2008 5:50:31 PM |
| I like the Windows 95 theme the site has now |
| #12 By 2 (75.198.134.3) at 6/26/2008 6:41:43 PM |
| Yes, we are ditching the "Day" system we have now...at the new site, you will be able to see the last 25, 50, 75, 100, etc. stories as well as sort by time...and the search is going to be much much better. This is all new code from scratch. |
| #13 By 3653 (65.80.181.153) at 6/26/2008 8:49:01 PM |
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Denver, are you browsing the homepage? Use RSS and set your reader to keep and index the titles&summaries. I must have 1000 articles in my rss' readers cache.
As far as the design goes, I have to tell you... its as good as anything else out there. Personally, I just use the site to click through to the article... and rely on the rss feed's summary to decide to get that far. |
| #14 By 1643 (24.161.181.221) at 6/29/2008 2:49:38 AM |
| Looks good...keep up the great work!!! |
| #15 By 22253 (98.174.238.114) at 6/29/2008 7:11:29 AM |
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I prefer the site the way it is, less graphics, less colors and flash.
More creative text perhaps, but I like this site just the way it is. Indexes should stay on the left. ;) If you must, those brightly colored panels you have on the right, make sure they can be collapsed or hidden. I think you can come up with a better logo, keep it simple and plain. I visit here everyday and have always enjoyed the information your main page has to offer. I can quickly see what's going on, read what I'm interested in and move along. It ain't broke, so please don't fix it. This post was edited by IronBits on Sunday, June 29, 2008 at 07:30. |
| #16 By 54556 (68.35.10.96) at 6/29/2008 8:09:25 PM |
| I wonder if posts will magically disappear off of the new system too. |
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