New Designs
Monday 15th September, 2008 14:13 Comments: 1
Facebook has one. In fact I had switched to the new design before it was forced upon people and I quite liked it. I even got annoyed when they took the new design away. A lot of people have started groups to convey their dissapointment with the new design. I don't plan on joining them.
But I would consider joining a group for The Register's new design. OMFG indeed. The site is now fixed width (so I get big grey bars on either side, as my monitors run at 1680x1050, 1920x1200 and the 30" can run at 2560x1600), and based on the comments I don't think people have noticed yet that the font size is now fixed (so the small text remains small on high resolution screens).
Talking of high resolutions, Microsoft had a nice article about what they've done/are doing to help third party applications look good on high resolution devices. I also like what they've done in IE8, where you can zoom into the page and instead of zooming in (with scrollbars) it will increase the size of the font but try and maintain the layout. This helps when stupid sites like The Register make the font size fixed so you can't zoom the text to show someone an article.
But I would consider joining a group for The Register's new design. OMFG indeed. The site is now fixed width (so I get big grey bars on either side, as my monitors run at 1680x1050, 1920x1200 and the 30" can run at 2560x1600), and based on the comments I don't think people have noticed yet that the font size is now fixed (so the small text remains small on high resolution screens).
Talking of high resolutions, Microsoft had a nice article about what they've done/are doing to help third party applications look good on high resolution devices. I also like what they've done in IE8, where you can zoom into the page and instead of zooming in (with scrollbars) it will increase the size of the font but try and maintain the layout. This helps when stupid sites like The Register make the font size fixed so you can't zoom the text to show someone an article.
Fab - Monday 15th September, 2008 21:10 I only looked at the FB new design once and I have to confess I didn't see the point of it. Certainly it meant having to learn where everything was again which is change which people usually are averse to.
The Register's new design is dreadful though. They do need to change because the old style had lots of flaws, but I can't say the new one is an improvement!
The Register's new design is dreadful though. They do need to change because the old style had lots of flaws, but I can't say the new one is an improvement!