Welcome to the 2010 AnandTech Beta
by Anand Lal Shimpi on March 29, 2010 11:52 PM EST- Posted in
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That old design lasted us a long time, didn't it? :) Welcome to the 2010 AnandTech Beta. We've done a lot of updating behind the scenes as well as (obviously) on the front end.
Most obvious is the brand new look and feel. For a site that reviews the latest and greatest tech, we can't get by looking like we're still living in 2004. Now when the 80s make a comeback we'll be on top of that, you've got my word.
We've ditched the left hand column, streamlined some of the ads and widened the content column. While each article will still give you a preview of 10 comments, we finally have an option to view all comments on each review page. Right now we've got this set to 50 comments per page but we'll be tweaking as need be. We're also cutting down on the number of page loads you'll encounter. In view all comments mode there's no page refreshing between comment pages. We'll be bringing this feature to more parts of the site in the future. User friendliness is our drug :)
The front page allows for both linking to our superlong articles as well as shorter stories that can just appear on the front page for quick scanning. By default the latest 5 articles will appear in the rotating carousel up top, but if something super interesting comes up we'll promote it up there (similar to what did on the old site). The expanded summaries on the front page will give you more insight into what it is we're talking about in the article before you ever click anything.
Tags are enabled but not in full effect just yet. We'll be beefing up search, comments (the return of ratings!), galleries, Bench, user profiles and site layout/color customization over the coming weeks. We're planning on this being a regularly updated thing so if you see anything that warrants our attention let us know.
It's not all about a pretty face though, we're still going to be publishing the content that you demand from us. If you haven't seen it, be sure to read Ryan's GeForce GTX 480 & GTX 470 Review. And I'm commemorating today with a new SSD article addressing one of the longest running questions you've been asking: how do SSDs perform in RAID?
As always, thank you for your support over the years and for reading the site. It's been a pleasure to be able to write for you all over the past 13 years. Thank you guys for giving me and all of us the opportunity to do just that. If you haven't been able to tell by now, I love writing this stuff - and you all make it possible.
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Gasaraki88 - Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - link
Thank you for your knowledge and insight over these 13 years. I have come to this site since I was in college and consider this site probably the best tech site on the internet. I still come here now that i'm in IT for you server and ESX software reviews.Thank you, Anand.
Peter
tjcinnamon - Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - link
It would be nice to be able to navigate to the Daily Tech latest headlines page from the right side bar. In the old version it would show as many "latest articles" as it could and then you could click more headlines and it would take you there (http://www.dailytech.com/Headlines.aspx).LarryMorley - Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - link
I used the print article function and it always opened a new window with all the separate pages of the article. I could scroll down much faster than opening new windows to get to the parts of interest. Especially useful to print the whole article. Hope you bring it back. Thank you...IlllI - Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - link
now if only you guys can update the forum so it didn't look like it was stuck in 1999 !its such a fugly abomination that i hardly want to log into the forums anymore.
PhatoseAlpha - Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - link
The styling for bold text and for hyperlinks seems to be identical - makes it hard to know what's clickable and what's just emphasized. Probably should be changed for usability.Bad Bimr - Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - link
Looks good but I prefer the old layout. Why fix something that isn't broken?Jamor - Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - link
Waaaahh! I miss the old design!...
... ok, I'm used to this new one now, it's a lot better.
Cheers, keep up the good work.
nowayout99 - Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - link
I would say overall it's a nice site.However I do have one comment to make... a fairly small one, but one that is kind of annoying me.
Please reduce the size of the top and bottom "borders" along the top horizontal menus.
It looks like there's a large 15 pixel border above and below the words. It's inefficient use of space and a bit annoying. I'd rather not have the navigation smacking me over the head.
Please. Thanks.
MamiyaOtaru - Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - link
comments section is a super pain to read. Black text om blue background is bad. My eyes hurt trying to make stuff out.faxon - Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - link
the site is going to feel like were back in 2004, as you put it, until you make it possible for it to scale in size with resolution. there are plenty of other examples of this being capable (look at the forums), and it would make the viewing experience on a widescreen monitor while fullscreen much more streamlined. also, i havent tested on my iphone yet, but make sure the site still runs well on mobile devices