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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n4bby - Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - link
i sincerely hope you didn't pay anyone for the new logo, because it looks straight out of Web2.0 Logo Creatr.
http://creatr.cc/creatr/
fail.
yannigr - Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - link
You want to look more like 2010? Then how about forgetting 1995? You have to make a first page with at least 1650 pixels in mind, if not 1920. Putting big photos and more colors in a 1024X8000!!! pixels page it just makes it worst.I am sorry but with the new look you are not going forward. You are still thinking in one dimension. You should start thinking in two dimensions...
lordmetroid - Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - link
Pressing the view all comments, I really want to see all comments at once, at the moment I only get more comments per page which is certainly not what I wanted when I pressed the button.wrack - Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - link
Where are the "Accessibility" options such as text size and wide screen layout (technically not an "Accessibility" option)?stephenbrooks - Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - link
To me the point of having a larger screen or desktop area is to have several webpages visible at once (each window about 800px wide), NOT for one webpage to be so large it takes up the entire width of one screen. The new design is too big with too much padding and spacing everywhere: wasteful.A good design should wrap intelligently so it doesn't actually matter what the width is. Ditch fixed width, have a look at some advanced CSS properties that allow you to wrap article-blocks in a flow that adapts to the browser width. The Dailytech column can be a div element with float:right, for instance.
fishbat - Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - link
Will this feature be brought back? I'm missing it already.jonup - Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - link
I am sorry if this has been addressed already, but at the time of writing there are 197 comments. Can we have a print option. I know that it might not be benefitial to you from an advertizing point of view but I work on a lappy all day and sometimes I like to print a hard copy when I get home.p.s. How about a spellcheck in the comment section?
rmlarsen - Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - link
I miss the little dividers by date. Makes it faster to zoom on latest news on iPhone.redemmed - Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - link
The site is cool. Don't know what took so long but I like it.seniorherbal - Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - link
i notice that the "print article" button is not present. i hope you'd put it on soon. those were real time savers. many thanks.